[pancheto]

after revising the code, I've came with a few updates that improve the scraper's work. since it's still in alpha version (as I'm not yet into the proper scraper coding yet), I will only post here the line changes for anyone to test them. the first one is the main change, which works fantastically (is able get all filmaffinity's info from ~700 file names without any error), and the other one is just a suggestion to bypass google search.

line 11:

Code:

<RegExp input="$$1" output="&lt;url&gt;http://www.filmaffinity.com/es/advsearch.php?stype[]=title&fromyear=$$2&toyear=$$2&stext=\1&lt;/url&gt;" dest="3">

instead of

Code:

<RegExp input="$$1" output="&lt;url&gt;http://www.filmaffinity.com/es/search.php?stext=\1&amp;amp;stype=none&lt;/url&gt;" dest="3">

allows pointing to the exact movie if your file names are tagged always with "(year)" just before the file extension, as the xbmc library convention states.

lines 124 to 138:

Code:

            <RegExp input="$$9" output="&lt;url function=&quot;GoogleToIMDB&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=$$6&title=$$9&lt;/url&gt;" dest="5+">
                <RegExp input="$$8" output="+\1" dest="9">
                    <RegExp input="$$1" output="\1" dest="8">
                        <expression>&lt;th&gt;T&amp;Iacute\;TULO ORIGINAL&lt;/th&gt;\s*&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;([a-z0-9\ ]*)</expression>
                    </RegExp>
                    <expression repeat="yes">([^ ,]+)</expression>
                </RegExp>
                <RegExp input="$$6" output="+\1" dest="7">
                    <RegExp input="$$1" output="\1" dest="6">
                        <expression>&lt;th&gt;A&Ntilde;O&lt;/th&gt;\s*&lt;td&gt;.*([0-9]{4}).*&lt;/td&gt;\s*&lt;/tr&gt;\s*&lt;tr&gt;\s*&lt;th&gt;DURACI&Oacute;N&lt;/th&gt;</expression>
                    </RegExp>
                    <expression>\s*([0-9]{4})\s*</expression>
                </RegExp>
                <expression />
            </RegExp>

instead of

Code:

            <RegExp input="$$9" output="&lt;url function=&quot;GoogleToIMDB&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=site:imdb.com\1&lt;/url&gt;" dest="5+">
                <RegExp input="$$8" output="+\1" dest="9">
                    <RegExp input="$$1" output="\1" dest="8">
                        <expression>&lt;th&gt;T&amp;Iacute\;TULO ORIGINAL&lt;/th&gt;\s*&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;</expression>
                    </RegExp>
                    <expression repeat="yes">([^ ,]+)</expression>
                </RegExp>
                <RegExp input="$$6" output="+\1" dest="9+">
                    <RegExp input="$$1" output="\1" dest="6">
                        <expression>&lt;th&gt;A&Ntilde;O&lt;/th&gt;\s*&lt;td&gt;(.*)&lt;/td&gt;\s*&lt;/tr&gt;\s*&lt;tr&gt;\s*&lt;th&gt;DURACI&Oacute;N&lt;/th&gt;</expression>
                    </RegExp>
                    <expression>\s*([0-9]{4})\s*</expression>
                </RegExp>
                <expression />
            </RegExp>

allows using directly IMDB's search engine, with the ability of pointing again to the exact year (hence ideally to the exact movie). the counterpart is that IMDB's advanced search is not as intelligent as Google's, and while the stress is done in the year we lose title text flexibility (you won't get "wolfman" entries when searching for "wolf man" through IMDB). this flexibility, plus the need to escape the second RegExp buffer of destiny (7 instead of 9+) just because I needed to leave buffer 9 untouched (and didn't know how to), should be discussed before getting this code into a beta version to test. also, it would be great to have a conditional to run google's search when imdb's returns no results, so we could have the best of both worlds. unfortunately I haven't mastered scraper coding that much!

note:
the search suggestion is only trying to bypass google search not because it isn't performing well (on the contrary, it does perform much better than my suggestion), but because when google detects a few hundreds of searches with the same structure and coming from the same IP it blocks the results page (after ~200 automatic searches it requests a captcha solving) and for that reason updating an entire library of hundreds of files is very complicated. I have tried to bypass http://www.google.com/ queries using http://www.google.es/ or even https://www.google.com/, but without luck.