[teriyaki]

Hi,
A ton of the movie trailer urls in my library scraped with TMDB actually just point to very short clips (sometimes only a few seconds long) and not actual trailers. To fix this I've been using the mdblist api to get good trailer urls, then updating them directly in the sql database. This works fine but isn't exactly convenient. Is there any existing way to tell the TMDB movie scraper to fetch the trailer url from mdblist? If not, is requesting such functionality reasonable? I figured an `official` solution to this problem is better than users needing to address it themselves.

[Art67]

Just create lists @mdblist.com and install YouTube and you will get the trailers that’s the only way I can think of hopefully that helps

[izprtxqkft]

A ton of the movie trailer urls in my library scraped with TMDB actually just point to very short clips (sometimes only a few seconds long) and not actual trailers.

yes this can be frustrating
personally i have been cultivating my own trailers and adding them alongside the movie https://kodi.wiki/view/Trailers#Scan_Local
- that solution suits my setup better since i employ multiple library solutions

previous attempts to overcome this included a custom context addon to invoke imdb trailers
- https://kodi.wiki/view/Context_Item_Add-ons
- https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=352127

and another custom addon to invoke trailers from an external android app
neither of those solutions worked out well, the second being the worst
 

Is there any existing way to tell the TMDB movie scraper to fetch the trailer url from mdblist?

no, tmdb scraper only parses the urls from tmdb and doesn't contact any other sites
 

I figured an `official` solution to this problem is better than users needing to address it themselves.

yes, most certainly since users editing the database is not a good idea
 

If not, is requesting such functionality reasonable?

i will leave this for the developer to answer but in my own opinion it's less likely to happen

it might be nice if there were more options for trailers scraped though such as prioritizing based on quality

[teriyaki]

@Art67,
My workaround uses their api to fetch trailer urls without the need to make lists or any of that. Thanks for the suggestion though, it may be preferable for others with the same problem.


@izprtxqkft,
Ultimately, I think the best solution is to fix the bad url in the database since that's what Kodi core uses for it's built-in trailer capability. I agree with you that it's unlikely the TMDB movie scraper devs will bother with this. I'd assume their take would be to just rescan/refresh or provide a good url locally in a movie.nfo file. I could probably hack together a context addon to update the trailer url if there's interest. For now I just made my kodi management script check the trailer url of a newly scanned item against mdblist and if they differ then replace it in the database with the mdblist one. It works for me, in my use-case, but doesn't help anyone else with the same problem.