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Support / Re: Personal Video Database 1.0.2.7 MOD
« Last post by Ivek23 on March 14, 2026, 04:25:15 pm »
Quote from: afrocuban on March 14, 2026, 12:18:38 pm
Cheers and really glad to read you back again. I always considered you as one of the main PVD "think-tank pool" members. Now to see rick.ca and eventually nostra and the old crew would be complete, hahah.

Unfortunately, we won't see Nostra return (maybe be return), and rick.ca will definitely not return (I'm 100 percent sure of that, and on top of that, it's been almost 8 years since his last presence on this forum).
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Support / Re: Personal Video Database 1.0.2.7 MOD
« Last post by afrocuban on March 14, 2026, 12:18:38 pm »
Quote from: mgpw4me_back_again on March 13, 2026, 02:31:42 am
Quote from: afrocuban on March 12, 2026, 08:56:19 am
https://imdbapi.dev/ is indeed very interesting resource, but still it looks to me with limited data?
True. There are thousands of species of fish and yet I only eat a few of them, so how would I categorize them?
As a casual user, I don't have the same data requirements as a film student.
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I'll say simply, "Take what's given" and build from that. The 'dev' site is simple to get data from, and for those want more, you have that solution.



I completely understand your point and it's a more than valid one. In terms of analogy I guess my point was (probaly subconscious one) that I wanted to try them all (fish) and then to choose. Subsequently, my contribution is highly personal, without intention to become "official" one, and I kindly offered it to community.


Quote from: mgpw4me_back_again on March 13, 2026, 02:31:42 am
I'm impressed by your technical acheivement in piecing together multiple programs to scrape every single byte from IMDB. I remember you from times past, from near the beginning of PVD. As a moment in time, this is a huge achievement.


Thank you for your kind words. You don't know yet, but now you will: while Ivek's skills were not even considerable for me, actually, I clearly remember, you were the one to inspire me when you offered your simple dark skin with additional photos for IMDb People script (am I right, or I mixed it with someone else?). I liked it so much at the moment and I said to myself I want to do scripting too. It was a long journey to this point, but better late than never, hahaha.


Cheers and really glad to read you back again. I always considered you as one of the main PVD "think-tank pool" members. Now to see rick.ca and eventually nostra and the old crew would be complete, hahah.
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Support / Re: Personal Video Database 1.0.2.7 MOD
« Last post by mgpw4me_back_again on March 13, 2026, 02:31:42 am »
Quote from: afrocuban on March 12, 2026, 08:56:19 am
https://imdbapi.dev/ is indeed very interesting resource, but still it looks to me with limited data?
True. There are thousands of species of fish and yet I only eat a few of them, so how would I categorize them?
As a casual user, I don't have the same data requirements as a film student.
I'm impressed by your technical acheivement in piecing together multiple programs to scrape every single byte from IMDB. I remember you from times past, from near the beginning of PVD. As a moment in time, this is a huge achievement.
Every 18 to 24 months, IMDB updates it's HTML. I'm sure this just is a refesh of the site and the introduction of new technology. The last update came about when AI became part of the site. When the next update comes, you will be the only person that can resolve the issues.
I'll say simply, "Take what's given" and build from that. The 'dev' site is simple to get data from, and for those want more, you have that solution.
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Support / Re: Personal Video Database 1.0.2.7 MOD
« Last post by afrocuban on March 12, 2026, 08:56:19 am »
https://imdbapi.dev/ is indeed very interesting resource, but still it looks to me with limited data?
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PVD Python Scripts / Re: PVD Selenium MOD v4 IMDb Movie, People and FilmAffinity Scripts
« Last post by afrocuban on March 12, 2026, 08:35:39 am »
Please be specific which script doesn't work for you and post screenshots with a specific title when it happens as well as log.txt and other logs from Scripts/Tmp folder so we could try to reproduce and help you.
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PVD Python Scripts / Re: PVD Selenium MOD v4 IMDb Movie, People and FilmAffinity Scripts
« Last post by Miguelh1020 on March 06, 2026, 02:36:01 am »
Quote from: afrocuban on February 04, 2026, 02:56:52 pm

This can happen when searching for a movie and you don't have .png files in /Scripts folder. For other cases, I have no idea without logs.

I got this log. I hope it helps, I can't understand any of it
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Support / Re: Personal Video Database 1.0.2.7 MOD
« Last post by mgpw4me_back_again on March 05, 2026, 04:12:47 pm »
I've had considerable luck using PHP to download IMDB pages. OpenSSL has to be enabled, and you have to provide a valid user-agent. Both settings are in the PHP.INI file...just set it and forget it. If you set up a server @ localhost, you could relay requests to IMDB and return pages to the PVD script that made the request without windows opening and closing. I'm using CivetWeb64 server (a branch from Mongoose, I think). When it's installed as a service, it will start automatically when you boot your computer.

That doesn't resolve the javascript "click for more information" on the pages, but last week I found this:

https://imdbapi.dev/

For my uses this site is all I need. Since it's just JSON formatted data the format won't likely change, the queries are very fast and parsing would be simple. In my case, PHP also has a Json_Decode function to convert JSON data into PHP variables, which will simplify the creation of dynamic pages on my server.
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Support / Re: Personal Video Database 1.0.2.7 MOD
« Last post by afrocuban on February 10, 2026, 07:54:32 pm »
Hello Lastdino.

Well, in the meantime everything and completely changed. IMDb made it so hard for a year and a half to download info. The only way to get info from IMDB now is to use python and scripts. This is the place to to learn:
https://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php/topic,4379.0.html


There are 2 ways at the moment but after you set up your system probably the easiest way is this
https://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php/topic,4379.msg23045.html#msg23045

I must warn you that it is so slow now to get the info with this method (and pretty slow with both methods) but this one is painfull for mass updates and tolerable with a single add up:
https://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php/topic,4379.msg23045.html#msg23045
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Scripts and Templates / Re: Export template: HTML List (English + German)
« Last post by afrocuban on February 10, 2026, 07:44:40 pm »
Quote from: Lastdino on February 10, 2026, 06:17:23 pm

Try to see if the link in my signature is displayed correctly to exclude possible errors of your browser. If so, and only your export is not displayed correctly, try to export only 1-2 test films (preferably which are in English, so that there is no character problem, because it can happen, very rarely, there may be a movie which has dubious characters and then it corrupts the whole list)


Haha, this community is indestructible. Great to see you back, Lastdino replying to my almost 6 years old post!


I tried the link in your signature and it works perfectly. I will try to export several films that should be common and will let you know.


Best regards
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Scripts and Templates / Re: Export template: HTML List (English + German)
« Last post by Lastdino on February 10, 2026, 06:17:23 pm »
Quote from: afrocuban on October 19, 2025, 02:40:46 pm

Thanks svenne. It's allways great to hear family takes first pace. Updated template works flawlessly. I wanted to ask you if you're willing to help with lastDino's template too, if that is viable for you. Thank you in advance!

Try to see if the link in my signature is displayed correctly to exclude possible errors of your browser. If so, and only your export is not displayed correctly, try to export only 1-2 test films (preferably which are in English, so that there is no character problem, because it can happen, very rarely, there may be a movie which has dubious characters and then it corrupts the whole list)
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