2019-02-16, 13:31
I've been playing around with the "Light IMDB ratings update" add-on. One of its features is to be able to display if a movie or tv show has one or more of the following IDs: TheTVDB, TheMovieDB and IMDB. It also lets you add any or those missing IDs manually.
That said, there are some tv shows where tmdb works better than tvdb and some where it doesn't work at all. However, for ratings of any show IMDB is still the goto place for me. Here I have noticed that when I re-scrape a show which was previously scraped the with TheTVDB then TMDB add-on removes the IMDB ID from the database. On the other hand when I re-scrape with TheTVDB scraper all IDs are left intact, including the TMDB ID.
This behaviour can easily be checked via the "Light IMDB ratings update" context menu item. I see no clear reason for the ID deletion and would suggest to remove this behaviour.
That said, there are some tv shows where tmdb works better than tvdb and some where it doesn't work at all. However, for ratings of any show IMDB is still the goto place for me. Here I have noticed that when I re-scrape a show which was previously scraped the with TheTVDB then TMDB add-on removes the IMDB ID from the database. On the other hand when I re-scrape with TheTVDB scraper all IDs are left intact, including the TMDB ID.
This behaviour can easily be checked via the "Light IMDB ratings update" context menu item. I see no clear reason for the ID deletion and would suggest to remove this behaviour.
