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coffeeman · 2012-12-30, 18:07

I have tried to find IMDB all through XBMC but can;t find it, it's not there.
how do i get it?

Im stuck with a few scrapers, but without IMDB alot of my files are not being read.

using Eden, 11.0

**Martijn** · 2012-12-30, 18:27

that's because it's broken.
switch to another scraper like the "universal" one

coffeeman · 2012-12-30, 18:36

(2012-12-30, 18:27)Martijn Wrote: that's because it's broken.
switch to another scraper like the "universal" one

ok, thanks for your reply..

**olympia** · 2012-12-30, 18:36

In fact it's not because it's broken, it got retired. Universal Scraper is its successor. It does the same and much more than the IMDb scraper before.

mightymouse2045 · 2013-01-16, 05:35

(2012-12-30, 18:36)olympia Wrote: In fact it's not because it's broken, it got retired. Universal Scraper is its successor. It does the same and much more than the IMDb scraper before.

Can you guys make this a sticky or post a new thread regarding this and make it a sticky. I spent days racking my brain over why movies weren't being updated and others were with the IMDB scraper which has been the default for an age.

I eventually realised it wasn't the Frodo update and new database requiring a "fresh" install as some had suggested and narrowed it down to the IMDB plugin. I tried rolling back and noticed that the latest 2.5.3 was blacklisted and then searched and found a number of threads before stumbling upon this one.

If there is already a sticky somewhere then I appologise but I couldn't find one.

therealjoeblow · 2013-02-03, 03:51

Could someone please explain how to "switch to another scraper"? I have IMDb 2.6.3 installed on Eden, and the option to disable it is greyed out and can't be selected. I installed Universal Scraper, but the IMDb one keeps getting used by default and I can't seem to find any way to force a switch to Universal...

Thanks
The REAL Joe

artrafael · 2013-02-03, 03:54

Use Videos > Files and locate your movies source folder and highlight it. Open the context menu ("c" on keyboard or right mouse click) and choose "Change content". On the "Set content" page, select Universal Scraper (assuming you already have this installed) and save the changes. If you have other movies source folders defined, rinse and repeat the above.

therealjoeblow · 2013-02-06, 04:24

Thank you!

alexbo · 2013-02-24, 05:26

Yes, thank you Artrafael. I find it very odd that I had to search so hard to find this. Such a major change to a key feature of XBMC should have been included in Frodo. Failing that, an announcement or warning popup would have been nice.

Me noticing something is broken, then having to scour the forum for a personalized solution, is a procedure that should only be necessary for rare or unexpected problems, not mainstream issues/changes like this.

**Martijn** · 2013-02-24, 11:01

(2013-02-24, 05:26)alexbo Wrote: Yes, thank you Artrafael. I find it very odd that I had to search so hard to find this. Such a major change to a key feature of XBMC should have been included in Frodo. Failing that, an announcement or warning popup would have been nice.

Me noticing something is broken, then having to scour the forum for a personalized solution, is a procedure that should only be necessary for rare or unexpected problems, not mainstream issues/changes like this.

I can name about 1001 other things however some one needs to code/change it.
So any one feel free to patch it

craftyza · 2013-04-06, 13:22

Kind of a pity that imdb is no longer active. I have optimized all my file names to correspond with the title on IMDb. all 2500 movies. This used to make scanning 100% accurate. The new scraper picked up Bad Boys 2 (2003).avi was picked up as some spannish movie with the cover of 4 topless men. Looked kind of like a gay porn movie :p
That is just one example. I'm now busy scanning, then manually fixing all the errors, so that I can go into library mode.

TRaSH · 2013-04-06, 15:34

must be something with your setup then,
because i got also that movie and Universal Movie scanner didn't have any issues scrapping it.

**Martijn** · 2013-04-06, 15:35

sometimes the release years don't match between IMDB and TMDB depending on what date they use for release.
they each have their own way of declaring it when that was

**olympia** · 2013-04-06, 16:01

(2013-04-06, 13:22)craftyza Wrote: Kind of a pity that imdb is no longer active. I have optimized all my file names to correspond with the title on IMDb. all 2500 movies. This used to make scanning 100% accurate. The new scraper picked up Bad Boys 2 (2003).avi was picked up as some spannish movie with the cover of 4 topless men. Looked kind of like a gay porn movie :p
That is just one example. I'm now busy scanning, then manually fixing all the errors, so that I can go into library mode.

Do you know that the Universal Movie Scraper is actually the IMDb scraper, but has been renamed due to the extended feature set?

craftyza · 2013-04-07, 00:40

(2013-04-06, 16:01)olympia Wrote:
(2013-04-06, 13:22)craftyza Wrote: Kind of a pity that imdb is no longer active. I have optimized all my file names to correspond with the title on IMDb. all 2500 movies. This used to make scanning 100% accurate. The new scraper picked up Bad Boys 2 (2003).avi was picked up as some spannish movie with the cover of 4 topless men. Looked kind of like a gay porn movie :p
That is just one example. I'm now busy scanning, then manually fixing all the errors, so that I can go into library mode.

Do you know that the Universal Movie Scraper is actually the IMDb scraper, but has been renamed due to the extended feature set?

Did not. But I do now Wink

Just found it strange that a few movies did not work.
ANy ways, I don't really mind the manual work. This time I will make backups of the library files, so it should be cool from here on. It is a rather therapeutic process.