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IMDB not finding some movies; not loading some casts

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:41 am
by Ted
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1198385/
Wasn't found by title or director search.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051852/
Not found by director search (Jules Dassin) or English title search (The Law)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330307/
Actor credits don't load from IMDB.

Re: IMDB not finding some movies; not loading some casts

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:55 am
by noribori
Hi, Ted
I tried your searches with DVDpedia 4.5.5 Beta11
Ted wrote:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1198385/
Wasn't found by title or director search.
I entered "l'origine", the requested movie is second in the list.
Ted wrote:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051852/
Not found by director search (Jules Dassin) or English title search (The Law)
I entered "The Law", the requested movie is fifth in the list
Ted wrote:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330307/
Actor credits don't load from IMDB.
True. But the cast list seems a bit strange on IMDb, since there are only actor names... maybe somethings wrong with their data

Searching by director: did that ever work reliably? When I enter "Hitchcock", I get some right and many wrong movies as result.
Searching by the IMDb ID (e.g. tt1198385) works always reliably.

Re: IMDB not finding some movies; not loading some casts

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:38 am
by Ted
I never tried the director thing before, I just did because the title search wasn't working.
I suspect that the characters in the third movie didn't have names.

I entered the complete title: À l’origine
if it showed up on the list, I can't find it.

Re: IMDB not finding some movies; not loading some casts

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:41 am
by noribori
Ted wrote:I entered the complete title: À l’origine
The character after "l" is ’ in your posting (opt-shift-# = ASCII 213 = 0xD5).
But IMDb uses ' (shift-# = ASCII 39 = 0x27).

Accents are tricky, that's why I left away À. But that wouldn't have helped here, l'origine is difficult enough.
And entering only "origine" doesn't work either.

Re: IMDB not finding some movies; not loading some casts

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:08 am
by Ted
I guess the moral with L'origine was to type instead of the copy/paste I did for greater accuracy...

Re: IMDB not finding some movies; not loading some casts

Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:36 am
by Ted
noribori wrote:
Ted wrote:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330307/
Actor credits don't load from IMDB.
True. But the cast list seems a bit strange on IMDb, since there are only actor names... maybe somethings wrong with their data
This is a continuing problem for me -- there are documentaries, obscure arty stuff etc. where no character names are given -- just the cast members. There is no reason it shouldn't work.

Re: IMDB not finding some movies; not loading some casts

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:49 am
by Conor
Hi Ted,

It was a small bug that required the "Uncredited credits" preference to be checked. I have updated the DVDpedia beta 33 please download it and the credits will come in for "Fukushu the Revenge Kienai Kizuato".