[JanM201]

Hi @vbat99
Could you please look at Plot. When a movie is scraping, the outline & plot is the same.
When you go to select a plot, only 2 options are available. I've seen some movies on IMDB with 5 plot options. 
Please let me know if this is a problem.

[vbat99]

Hi @vbat99
Could you please look at Plot. When a movie is scraping, the outline & plot is the same.
When you go to select a plot, only 2 options are available. I've seen some movies on IMDB with 5 plot options. 
Please let me know if this is a problem.

I'll Look into this.

[JanM201]

Thanks very much

[Juan Mortyme]

@vbat99

Could you please check actor scraping from IMDB? It seems MC isn't getting the complete actor 'role' if there is more than one. Like, for animated shows in which actors have multiple roles "John Doe / Joe Blow (voice)"  it is only adding a single role "John Doe" nor the "(voice)" at the end. This only seems a problem when scraping actors from IMDB, as scraping actors from TMDB works fine.

While on the topic of scraping from IMDB. Could you look at adding the scraping of Director(s) and Writer(s) from IMDB? Because, IMDB often has that information when TMDB or TVDB does not. Getting the Writers might be problematic since we only want the names with "(written by)" or "(teleplay by)" and not "(created by)" or "(story by)" credits but Directors should be easier. If you have time perhaps you could give it some thought?

Thanks.

[vbat99]

@vbat99

Could you please check actor scraping from IMDB? It seems MC isn't getting the complete actor 'role' if there is more than one. Like, for animated shows in which actors have multiple roles "John Doe / Joe Blow (voice)"  it is only adding a single role "John Doe" nor the "(voice)" at the end. This only seems a problem when scraping actors from IMDB, as scraping actors from TMDB works fine.

Its a bit harder for actor details from IMDb as we have to mine the data displayed, where as TMDb is via API call.
Also, for animated shows, some voice actors can be credited with a lot of character voices, so MC tend to just get the primary character name.

But, let me know the animated show for "John Doe / Joe Blow (voice)" and I'll see what I can do.

While on the topic of scraping from IMDB. Could you look at adding the scraping of Director(s) and Writer(s) from IMDB? Because, IMDB often has that information when TMDB or TVDB does not. Getting the Writers might be problematic since we only want the names with "(written by)" or "(teleplay by)" and not "(created by)" or "(story by)" credits but Directors should be easier. If you have time perhaps you could give it some thought?

Thanks.

Unfortunately not planning on adding series scraping of Director or Writers, and for any series, there could be 20/50 directors or writers. MC doesn't scrape episode or series data from IMDb, only the actors (oh, and ratings).

[mata7]

hi, is there a way to just download extra fanart that don't include the title of the movie on the picture fanart, just plain pic, thanks

[vbat99]

hi, is there a way to just download extra fanart that don't include the title of the movie on the picture fanart, just plain pic, thanks

There is no way MC can determine if the image contains text that should or shouldn't be there, so no.

[Juan Mortyme]

hi, is there a way to just download extra fanart that don't include the title of the movie on the picture fanart, just plain pic, thanks

There is no way MC can determine if the image contains text that should or shouldn't be there, so no.

@vbat99
I believe the behavior they are referring to is when scraping extra fanart it appears MC is lumping landscape (called movie thumbs on fanart.tv and backgrounds/languages on tmdb) and fanart together even though they are segregated on both sites by type and/or language. This, at least in my case, results in fanart1 to fanart9 actually ending up as landscape (thumbs) 1 to 9 saved as fanart. This means I have to delete fanart1 to fanart9 and redownload the extra fanarts. In my settings I have Extra Fanart selected and Extra Thumbs deselected. BTW, I have fanart.tv selected as my first choice source, if that matters. So, it's not a matter of MC detecting text that shouldn't be there or art miscategorized at the source, neither of which MC be could be expected to recognize.

Getting back to the case of actors roles in animated series, you could use just about any animated show as an example since some actors play multiple roles in just about all of them.