[maxxxmagnum]

I'm a newbie to Kodi and so far with mixed level of happiness I searched the forums and resolved some beginner's issues, but here's a few I couldn't find the answers to.

My main goal was to backup all of my DVDs (approx. 700 titles) to ISO format. In the past I used a media box that worked great, but had been discontinued and does not support larger internal HDs. KDlinks A300 seemed like a good choice, however...

1. Universal Movie Scraper downloads most of the titles and covers art successfully, however, this applies only to the majority of popular movies. Any older, obscure, rare title... good luck with that. Incorrect title, incorrect or no cover art.

2. TV shows or mini series are a special pain. Example - complete Monty Python's Flying Circus (14 DVD set). Virtually impossible to retrieve correct info from available databases if you rip the DVD set as ISO (each contains several episodes). Naming the DVDs as per some of the suggestions on the forum yielded no better results. Kieslowski's Decalogue (or Dekalog) same problems. I looked them up on thetvdb.com and tried to rename them accordingly but to no avail.

3. Some multi-DVD movies such as Kieslowski's Red, White and Blue consistently downloaded incorrect info for one of the movies (I think it was Blue).

4. The best results I got was entering movie info manually using the Imdb tt00xxxxx code which is specific for a given movie. Needless to say this is extremely tedious when you have a lot of movies. Any changes to the database (purging it), and you have to start all over again for each one of those titles.

The list of problems doesn't stop here, but I have to so I don't irritate the forum too much (LOL). I was wondering if it's possible to customize movie scraper to download from sites such as amazon? I use several Windows based programs for cataloging DVDs and CDs and always had very good results with amazon. Both the titles and cover art are downloaded correctly in overwhelming majority of cases.

For my old media box I used free program called ThumGen to download info and covers. It had extensive list of sites to choose from.

To rename the ripped DVD ISOs I use Filebot, Zeeb and Movie Renamer.

Will be very grateful for any suggestions.

[nickr]

Well if obscure movies aren't on TMDB, you should add them.

Also (and I know you won't thank me for this suggestion), but ripping as mkv's using makemkv will preserve quality, while making individual files for each movie or episode, making naming and metadata a lot easier. It can be done from your isos.

[maxxxmagnum]

Well if obscure movies aren't on TMDB, you should add them.

Also (and I know you won't thank me for this suggestion), but ripping as mkv's using makemkv will preserve quality, while making individual files for each movie or episode, making naming and metadata a lot easier. It can be done from your isos.

My scraper is set up to pull movie info from IMDB. Some of the titles are there, but the scraper doesn't see them or incorrectly identifies them. I tried TMDB, but even info contained there is not always correctly downloaded which makes me think there's an intrinsic coding issue with the scraper itself. Kodi had been around for a while, so I'm surprised these scrapers haven't been perfected like some Windows or Mac based programs.

Thank you, I've seen those suggestions for mkv on other threads, but some of us prefer to keep DVDs as ISO files. Especially those with more than one disc, special features etc. Besides, conversion to mkv is much more time consuming, although in the end it does save space. Most of the DVD to ISO takes no more than 15 min. With cost of storage so low nowadays, space is certainly a non-issue.

I still believe that adding ability to pull info from other sources such as amazon would be a better solution if possible.

[jadedcyborg]

Scraping with Rotten Tomatoes seems to be broken for a few titles but most works flawlessly. Seems to be an issue with the OMDb API.

EDIT: For example:

Code:

$ curl -s 'http://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt3110958&r=json&tomatoes=true' | python -m json.tool
{
    "Actors": "Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco",
    "Awards": "3 nominations.",
    "BoxOffice": "N/A",
    "Country": "USA, China, UK, Canada",
    "DVD": "N/A",
    "Director": "Jon M. Chu",
    "Genre": "Action, Adventure, Comedy",
    "Language": "English, Mandarin",
    "Metascore": "46",
    "Plot": "The Four Horsemen resurface and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet.",
    "Poster": "http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNzQ0NDgwODQ3NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTYxNjc2ODE@._V1_SX300.jpg",
    "Production": "Lionsgate",
    "Rated": "PG-13",
    "Released": "10 Jun 2016",
    "Response": "True",
    "Runtime": "129 min",
    "Title": "Now You See Me 2",
    "Type": "movie",
    "Website": "http://www.nowyouseeme.movie/",
    "Writer": "Ed Solomon (screenplay), Ed Solomon (story), Peter Chiarelli (story), Boaz Yakin (characters), Edward Ricourt (characters)",
    "Year": "2016",
    "imdbID": "tt3110958",
    "imdbRating": "6.9",
    "imdbVotes": "40,659",
    "tomatoConsensus": "N/A",
    "tomatoFresh": "N/A",
    "tomatoImage": "N/A",
    "tomatoMeter": "N/A",
    "tomatoRating": "N/A",
    "tomatoReviews": "N/A",
    "tomatoRotten": "N/A",
    "tomatoURL": "http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/now_you_see_me_the_second_act/",
    "tomatoUserMeter": "N/A",
    "tomatoUserRating": "N/A",
    "tomatoUserReviews": "44947"
}

[nickr]

Well if obscure movies aren't on TMDB, you should add them.

Also (and I know you won't thank me for this suggestion), but ripping as mkv's using makemkv will preserve quality, while making individual files for each movie or episode, making naming and metadata a lot easier. It can be done from your isos.

My scraper is set up to pull movie info from IMDB. Some of the titles are there, but the scraper doesn't see them or incorrectly identifies them. I tried TMDB, but even info contained there is not always correctly downloaded which makes me think there's an intrinsic coding issue with the scraper itself. Kodi had been around for a while, so I'm surprised these scrapers haven't been perfected like some Windows or Mac based programs.

Thank you, I've seen those suggestions for mkv on other threads, but some of us prefer to keep DVDs as ISO files. Especially those with more than one disc, special features etc. Besides, conversion to mkv is much more time consuming, although in the end it does save space. Most of the DVD to ISO takes no more than 15 min. With cost of storage so low nowadays, space is certainly a non-issue.

I still believe that adding ability to pull info from other sources such as amazon would be a better solution if possible.

Actually makemkv won't take any longer, but hey in the end it's up to you. For stuff that just won't be recognised try an nfo file with just the IMDb URL in it.

[mihvel]

Seems that scraper does not fetch Movie Country info from IMDB any more. Can it be fixed?

[neurosis13]

Seems that scraper does not fetch Movie Country info from IMDB any more. Can it be fixed?

Same here, hoping for a fix too

[jcea]

Bad preview images from fanart.tv.

Images like http://assets.fanart.tv/fanart/movies/49...pg/preview used to work, but it doesn't anymore. See this IRC chat conversation:

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbo...948&page=1

Specially relevant: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbo...459&page=1

The official documentation: http://docs.fanarttv.apiary.io/#introduc...ge-preview

[Kode]

More info on why this has just become a problem here: https://fanart.tv/2016/09/recent-api-issues/

[Kode]

urls ending in /preview now 301 redirect to the correct url, probably still a good idea to update the urls though in the long run

[olympia]

@Kode - this is fixed. On the other hand everyone who scraped his/her library prior to adjusted scraper will need the redirect for sure. Or else they need to re-scrape everything with the new version of the scraper.

[olympia]

Seems that scraper does not fetch Movie Country info from IMDB any more. Can it be fixed?

Same here, hoping for a fix too

Should be fixed with IMDb scraper library v2.8.7.

[BugRaider84]

Seems that scraper does not fetch Movie Country info from IMDB any more. Can it be fixed?

Same here, hoping for a fix too

Should be fixed with IMDb scraper library v2.8.7.

Hi olympia,

where do I get v2.8.7 ?
I'm running Universal Movie Scraper 2.8.1 and I'm not getting any IMDb data.
Noticed it today and didn't scrape anything for like 5 days.
Before then everything was fine.

Thanks for your help in advance

[judocama]

Same here, hoping for a fix too

Should be fixed with IMDb scraper library v2.8.7.

Hi olympia,

where do I get v2.8.7 ?
I'm running Universal Movie Scraper 2.8.1 and I'm not getting any IMDb data.
Noticed it today and didn't scrape anything for like 5 days.
Before then everything was fine.

Thanks for your help in advance

+1

[Keawak]

Hello all

I have some movies in speciel editions, that the scraper picks up, but doesn't show the editions in Kodi, is this possible or do I have to edit everyone title manually?
For example:
Kingdom.of.Heaven.Directors.Cut.2005
or
Law.Abiding.Citizen.UNRATED.2009

I tried looking in the settings and used both imdb og themoviedb, but same result.

Thank you.