2022-06-06, 09:55
First off I must thank you for Media Companion. It's by far my favourite and most used movie/TV scraper. Scraping music videos is a pain no matter what scraper is used so I can't criticize that part but I do have one request that I believe would be an improvement.
I was quite surprized to find that IMDB actually has a lot of music videos listed. Only problem is I have to scrape them as movies then do some editing of the nfo to convert it from movie type to music video format. Usually it's just a matter of adding the <album> tag and changing the first <actor> tag to <artist> and optionally the top and bottom tags from <movie> to <musicvideo>. I also manually add the Wiki info and use it fill in the missing fields like <studio> and <album> that IMDB doesn't normally have. That's all well and good since it beats creating a nfo from scratch by hand. It speeds things up to use an editor that can do batch file editing.
So, what I'm asking is if IMDB could be added as scraping source option in music video section?
I was quite surprized to find that IMDB actually has a lot of music videos listed. Only problem is I have to scrape them as movies then do some editing of the nfo to convert it from movie type to music video format. Usually it's just a matter of adding the <album> tag and changing the first <actor> tag to <artist> and optionally the top and bottom tags from <movie> to <musicvideo>. I also manually add the Wiki info and use it fill in the missing fields like <studio> and <album> that IMDB doesn't normally have. That's all well and good since it beats creating a nfo from scratch by hand. It speeds things up to use an editor that can do batch file editing.
So, what I'm asking is if IMDB could be added as scraping source option in music video section?
