2012-05-05, 21:21
(2012-05-05, 19:47)olympia Wrote:(2012-05-05, 17:43)Huisie Wrote: HD-Trailers
The scraper only seemed to work with new files - if I tried re-scraping an existing file, the scraper would start then shut down.
The only way to re-scrape existing files was to uncheck both XML scrapers sections.
Also, it appeared to have difficulty with files with "tricky" names - for example, the movie "50/50".
As you know, Windows doesn't allow "/" in file and folder names, so the files is renamed "50 50" in Explorer.
When scanning with XML scrapers enabled, I would get a message about "No information found for this movie", then the scraper closes.
If I scraped it with XML scrapers disabled, I could scrape it successfully - though I had to do a search in the scraper for "50 / 50" ("50/50" didn't work)
Unfortunatelly this is also feedback to DanCooper and Bodrick?
This is not an issue with the scraper itself, but the scraperXML engine in embermm. Ember has a couple of seriouos bugs in its scraperXML which would need some love from core developers (nothinh to do with the poor hd-trailers.net XML scraper).
I pointed out, that embermm would beat everything with proper XML scraper support. Hacking/fixing the native scraper is not making ember futureproof and flexible.
Hi, Olympia, and thanks for getting back to me.
I think you may have misunderstood my point (or I am misinterpreting your reply).
1st Point
My main point was that with newly added movies, I could use your HD-Trailers scraper (and thanks for that!).
However, I could not get it to work with existing movies.
I could only re-scrape existing movies by disabling XML scraper options.
The only way I could get HD-trailers to work with existing movies was to:
a) delete from database
b) go to folder and delete all items except the movie (if I left any file in there, it wouldn't scrape when re-added)
c) In Ember, update library...
2nd Point
With my other point - files with "tricky" names - the native Ember scrapers work (with a little massaging of file names).
If I enable the HD-Trailer scraper, then I am unable to scrape the file.
To me, with my limited knowledge, it seems that issues occur when HD-trailers scraper is enabled.
They are not insurmountable and I can work around it to get that hd-trailer goodness,,,
If it is, as you say, issues with Ember's scrapers, please excuse my ignorance.
(2012-05-05, 20:58)olympia Wrote:(2012-05-05, 20:30)TeKo Wrote:(2012-05-05, 19:47)olympia Wrote: Unfortunatelly this is also feedback to DanCooper and Bodrick?
This is not an issue with the scraper itself, but the scraperXML engine in embermm. Ember has a couple of seriouos bugs in its scraperXML which would need some love from core developers (nothinh to do with the poor hd-trailers.net XML scraper).
I pointed out, that embermm would beat everything with proper XML scraper support. Hacking/fixing the native scraper is not making ember futureproof and flexible.
It would be perfect if I could load X scraper and select which one should scrape what.
Like OFDB Title, imdb rating and tmdb plot...
This is exactly what Universal Scraper does in XBMC. you can select field by field where to scrape from (obviously from the supported sites, currently: IMDb, TMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, OFDb)
Just had a quick look on XBMC forum for Universal Scraper - thanks for that. Must give it a try...
