(2019-09-23, 10:48)olympia Wrote: Since RT doesn't provide an (open) API, the scraper uses omdbapi, hence the API key is needed for scraping RT ratings. Omdbapi indeed doesn't provide the number of reviews for these movies. Nothing we can do about this, of course there is no workaround.
However, there are multiple 2019 movies where the number of reviews are available, so I am not sure if the announcement mentioned above is to blame.
Maybe you could try to get in touch with omdbapi? However I wouldn't bet on this. Kodi is not sponsoring omdbapi and rt ratings seems to be an undocumented feature of the API, maybe they are not even supporting it any longer.
Thanks for the detailed answer. Yes, there are movies of 2019 being scraped correctly but only those
before 30th of May (when the RT change occurred according to the above link). This can't be a coincidence. You can easily check that comparing the scraped data with the actual site: If the site states "user ratings" in audience, it's being scraped (in general). If the site states "verified rates" it is never scraped.
The List.Item entry seeks for audience votes but they are currently referred to as "verified votes" by RT. Most probably it's the OMDB's fault, but the scrapers should now update accordingly, if OMDB responds to that. Funny thing is some movies from those (
after 5/30) return "0 votes", whereas others "no votes" (the string is totally empty).
On a side note there are also movies
before that date (5/30) with full ratings in RT but no scraped data at all (try eg. "The Wind(2019)).
Or others with no critics' reviews but with some audience votes. These are also not scraped at all, including the actually existing audience votes (try eg. "City of Lies(2018)).
Thanks once more!