2014-12-11, 18:09
Only when the user specifically enables it - this is NOT something I would ever have enabled by default - and only until I get time to look better into TMDb's api to do it better.
(2014-12-11, 18:09)Unfledged Wrote: Only when the user specifically enables it - this is NOT something I would ever have enabled by default - and only until I get time to look better into TMDb's api to do it better.
(2014-12-11, 12:03)Unfledged Wrote:Would it not be better to make the scraping part be done by Kodi's existing scrapers, so that they scrape just the IMDb and TheMovieDB tags for "recommendations" and "similar" movies into Kodi's standard video database, meaning at the same time when they do their normal scraping for all the movie metadata via the available APIs?(2014-12-11, 11:50)RockerC Wrote: Any chance of getting even smarter with discover recommendations of "similar" Movies and TV Shows scraping that recommendation data from IMDb?From IMDb - No. The api simply isn't good enough (and essentially non-existent for tv series.)
IMDb.com have this as a "People who liked this also liked..." section which simply recommend similar movies, for direct link add "/recommendations":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/recommendations
http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?perso...=tt_rec_lm
TheMovieDB.org also have a section for "Similar TV Shows" (and "Similar Movies" for movies too but it is not as good) though not sure if it is available via its API
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1972-battlestar-galactica
There are also other services online that can give you recommendations for Movies, TV Shows, and Music Artists or Songs based on similar taste
http://www.similarkind.com
http://www.tastekid.com
http://www.jinni.com
This could help users discover similar media that are also in your databases in Kodi based on mood too, "If you enjoyed this title, maybe you will also like..."
I guess best thing would be if Kodi would actually scrape that info into its database and the widget would cross-check it with other media in your collection.
MoreTacksLikeThis.com also get music recommendations from Spotify that is lind of like the old iTunes "Genius Playlist" feature
http://moretrackslikethis.com
From TMDb - some can already be enabled from the scripts settings ('Similar' and 'Keywords') - oh, and TMDb's Similar is only good for those to series where it has this information, which is primarily only US to shows
From others - I'm already looking into Trakt, and will look into others BUT this is a content-based recommendation system, not a collaborative one. That means it bases its results on the media metadata (genre, actors, et al), not similar movies that others have enjoyed. Whilst such information can be used, it's hard to weight names of similar shows, against multiple genres, actors, etc, so any additional info will only be added if it genuinely improves the results.
(2014-12-12, 07:38)mgonzales Wrote: FYI - I saw a new commit to the GitHub so I pull down the latest master and now it's working for me. Do you have a repo that I can add for updates directly from your GitHub? Also I noticed the version number in ad addon.Xml hasn't changed but the code had.
In any event thanks for posting the update I'm glad it works for me now! ;-)
(2014-12-12, 10:00)RockerC Wrote: Would it not be better to make the scraping part be done by Kodi's existing scrapers, so that they scrape just the IMDb and TheMovieDB tags for "recommendations" and "similar" movies into Kodi's standard video database, meaning at the same time when they do their normal scraping for all the movie metadata via the available APIs?
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(2014-12-12, 10:44)Unfledged Wrote:(2014-12-12, 07:38)mgonzales Wrote: FYI - I saw a new commit to the GitHub so I pull down the latest master and now it's working for me. Do you have a repo that I can add for updates directly from your GitHub? Also I noticed the version number in ad addon.Xml hasn't changed but the code had.
In any event thanks for posting the update I'm glad it works for me now! ;-)
I did post that I found the issue, but it's not surprising it got buried in the discussion over the api's. Still, glad its working for you. I'll look into a development repo, especially as I'm hopeful that most of the larger development issues will be sorted sooner than later, but won't start bumping the version on each update until such time as that happens.
(2014-12-13, 10:23)Montellese Wrote: Uhm wait... WHAT?
Although I haven't posted in this thread I've been following it with very much interest. Would be really sad to see you go.