[tars]

- Can you add a new option for IMDb scraper to pick up the globally earliest date?

On second thought, adding a new option won't be really necessary. Currently if you disable "Get the release date for the chosen country" option for IMDb scraper, you get your country release date. How about making it pick up the global premier date instead when it's disabled? If you want your country release date then you could just select your country from the selection box. This will also make it behave consistently with TMDb scraper for the same option.

[mlaggner]

is you don't select the local release date option, the scraper will pick up the release date which is presented in the reference page (e.g. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048696/reference)..

but as writing this here I have realized that imdb is reacting on my IP address with its response so the information on the reference page is printed for the country your IP is from (and not the global one) - so it seems that here is some more work needed to get the first release date from the /releases sub-page on imdb

[tars]

OK. So that means the behavior wasn't intended for the whole time. I've always wondered why the option only provides either chosen country or your country release date, not the global one.

Anyway here's the site's description of how the movie year gets decided and why the first release date is important:
"the year in the title is derived from the date of earliest release. This includes any festival release dates." (https://help.imdb.com/article/contributi...guidelines)

[jhoyos]

I think most people just want to have a release date where the year is similar to the year that is presented in TMM year, since Kodi shows that information.    

I opened this threath because I realized that Kodi was showing me some 1950's movies in 1980's decade, and found about 1.100 mistakes from a colection of 19.000 movies.  To me, the exact day or month of the release date it is indiferent.  I just want to have in Kodi a year that matches year in TMM.

[tars]

Thanks for the fix! IMDb scraper now correctly picks up globally earliest release date when the chosen country option is disabled.

But this issue with TMDb scraper still remains unfixed:

- TMDb scraper keeps excluding premiere dates even with "Include premiere dates" option checked.

Try with these and see it gets the same date regardless of the option:
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/278-the...n/releases
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/27205-i...n/releases

One issue, which is not new, with IMDb release date scraping is that it leaves the field empty if the date has no month or day value.
This does not happen with TMDb since the site always keeps full date with a fallback to 1st day or Jan. 1st day when missing.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2137267/rel...=tt_ov_inf
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/80590-a...n/releases

Maybe tmm could fill up missing month or date like TMDb.

[tars]

It really affects which date gets picked up. In this case (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263830/rel...=tt_ov_inf):



it picks up the third one just because the first & second one has no day value.