2011-05-28, 09:26
StormyKnight Wrote:Thanks @danz0l & @bobrap...with the provided movie titles i was able to locate some of the issues.....
Death Hunter (2011) doesn't exist on IMDB, but Death Hunter (2010) does & this is what the scraper tries to scrape. If you have a look at that movie on IMDB you will see that it is missing quite a bit of information. Its the XBMC scraper that is crashing & pulling MC down with it because of this missing data.
I have made a change to ScraperQuery.vb to catch the error & that movie now scrapes albeit mostly empty of data as it is on IMDB.
Desert Son (2010) is a different issue. This results in a malformed url & requires further investigation as to why. Oddly when the XBMC scraper is called, it detects the malformed error but then throws an exception also crashing MC. If I return an error as the result, the calling function never checks for that so in both of these cases its the XBMC scraper that is the issue.
I will post an issue on the mediacompanion codeplex site to see if any of the other developers have any ideas.
Cheers
Thanks stormy Yes i understood it was the xbmc scrapers at fault and disabling them allowed at least a successful scrape (I had 14 movies in that directory and it scraped most of them). I've had similiar issues with scraping since the introduction of the xbmc scrapers and just feel a bit more error checking needs to be introduced, i.e. if the url returned is malformed or its not 100% sure of what title the movie relates to then skip, we can always manually find the movie later.
Again thanks very much for the continued work on the excellent program. Lets get those bugs ironed out