2023-01-15, 17:08
(2023-01-13, 13:43)rafikW Wrote: I would say the idea of thetvdb.com database is quite poor... my understanding is that most of the information there about series is the result of what users insert manually, right?Hello!
I ran Light IMDb Ratings Update add-on against my series library and as reported above I have found out some of the newest episodes are lacking IMDB ratings.
Then I checked on thetvdb.com and indeed there are no information added about IMDB ratings, example: https://thetvdb.com/series/totenfrau/episodes/9386936
but as you can see that one particular series had been broadcasted more than 2 months ago and on IMDB web page of course there is rating 6.9: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15824988/?ref_=ttep_ep2
So in order to have this information added by Light IMDB Ratings Update add-on we rely on some good people who add information about episodes into thetvdb.com (I did that myself for other episodes for other series so I hope I will get some awards :-))
Now the question: why it is not possible to scrap (read) information about episodes ratings directly from IMDB? Is it doable at all or it is impossible from technical perspective?
On IMDb site, the movie/TV show/episode pages have the following url format: https://www.imdb.com/title/IMDb_ID/ (e.g. for The Last of Us is https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3581920/). So, as you can see, the IMDb ID is mandatory in order to reach directly the exact page; a search option based on the movie/TV show title or episode number is not "transparent" to the user, that is the main scope of this add-on.
As you reported, the point is really to help the community and fill the IMDd IDs in the movie/TV show/episode information pages on the reference sites. Please note that, as said by @Karellen, TheTVDB site is not supported by the add-on because they added a paid subscription in order to make use of the APIs. So, if you want to use this add-on, please contribute to TheMovieDB site.
Best Regards,
Alex
