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This plugin does not replace TvMaze itself, it is a *helper only*

Where TvMaze does not find the information, this plugin searches on bing and finds the ID (if it is available on TvMaze), sets the ID in Emby and allows the TvMaze plugin by Emby Dev to download the info using the ID rather than the name.

Technically you shouldn't need this but in Tests I have found it will *help* identify people that TvMaze is obviously not telling the Emby Dev's TvMaze plugin it has in its database.

How to use: 

Needs TvMaze Plugin from the Catalogue to work properly.

Click on an Empty person image to trigger it.  If it finds a link with a valid id (TvMaze id), then data and or image should load shortly.

*A Caveat - it is possible that the wrong actor with the same name can be identified as correct*

Nothing to configure or enable and it is seemless.

It should work on all builds, place the dll in the /programdata/plugins directory and restart Emby.

I accept no responsibilty for anything if you choose to use it, its all on you to check legallity in your country!

What this does:

1. It looks on bing (not google this time) search engine for tvmaze links that contain the actor you are looking at or refreshing metadata on.
2. It collects links of possibles.
3. It only visits the links that might be valid and checks if the persons name is found in the actor page in order to verify it is valid.
4. It updates the provider Id (if found)
5. It writes a log file.

Why does this help?

Other metadata plugins if installed will use this id to get data such as tvmaze, themoviedb etc.

This plugin might introduce a delay on person loading if *any* metadata is missing for that person.

What it doesn't do:

1. It does not fetch any data on people, it only fetches the  id code , fills in the field so TvMaze plugin can do the rest.

 

It is technically a webscraper, athough intrusion is minimal - so it probably will not be allowed in the catalogue.

15.Jan.2023  -  03.18.25 Person = John Cleese
15.Jan.2023  -  03.18.25 Url = https://www.bing.com/search?q=john+cleese+tvmaze.com
15.Jan.2023  -  03.18.25 Found link = https://www.tvmaze.com/people/43636/john-cleese
15.Jan.2023  -  03.18.25 Testing Link = https://www.tvmaze.com/people/43636/john-cleese
15.Jan.2023  -  03.18.25 Id Verified, Using Id = 43636
15.Jan.2023  -  03.19.39 Person = Gillian Kearney
15.Jan.2023  -  03.19.39 Url = https://www.bing.com/search?q=gillian+kearney+tvmaze.com
15.Jan.2023  -  03.19.39 Found link = https://www.tvmaze.com/people/50102/gillian-kearney
15.Jan.2023  -  03.19.39 Testing Link = https://www.tvmaze.com/people/50102/gillian-kearney
15.Jan.2023  -  03.19.39 Id Verified, Using Id = 50102

TVMAZE ID Helper.zip

Similar plugin for Imdb can be found here:

 

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On 1/15/2023 at 4:28 AM, mickle026 said:

Technically you shouldn't need this but in Tests I have found it will *help* identify people that TvMaze is obviously not telling the Emby Dev's TvMaze plugin it has in its database.

Could you give a few examples for which names it doesn't work?

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I have updated 1000's of actors in the last few days manually (whilst improving my Info.txt import plugin to support provider id's) so I don't remember individuals at the moment. 
My Plugin update is a big update but isn't posted at the moment as im still documenting how to use it in the webui. 

I know you asked a specific question but the reply will be general, whats needs improvement with the current system.  Some of it I don't know what to suggest for a solution.

  • There is an issue with refresh metadata when only metadata readers are selected, they don't run at all without an Metadata Downloader or Image Fetcher enabled.
  • There is an issue when metadata providers do not have all the provider ids (see duplicate names)
  • There is an issue when adding a new actor manually and dont have the provider keys
  • There is an issue when adding an actor manually and cannot input the provider keys
  • There is a BIG issue with duplicate names (Can be seen in a normal library but specially evident in an adult library)

duplicate names is the bigger issue (many people with the same name) like
https://www.imdb.com/find/?q=Paul Evans&ref_=nv_sr_srsg_9
https://www.imdb.com/find/?q=chris smith&s=nm&exact=true&ref_=fn_nm_ex

(expand matches)

look what entry number this guy is (entry 84!)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5469374/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_23

However even this little helper plugin does this too...... so thats annoying...

Chris Smith (probably not the best example,  but there are an increasing number of them an over time that will increase further) and people like him have many actors of the same name (some people have over 30!),  unless the provider id is set when an tv show or movie is added.  I honestly don't know how this can be improved when nothing other than the name is available.  I know it will improve with time as these databases improve and add them.

When I started down this road a good while back I asked Luke why Movie or TV show names were not available in the Getmetadata "info"  when I clicked a person card from a movie display, that was before I fully understood how they worked, but if that was available it could help in future.  So a future query might be like:
http://api.whateverprovider/?Person=Paul Evans&Appears In=Arrows of Fire  This is not supported by the api's at the moment though.  I wanted at that time to use it in my own api for this reason.  I haven't supported it because it isn't there.

Here is where i have noticed too that TvMaze is adding a Provider id to someone with an Imdb id, that is a different person, so the imdb id and the tvmaze id are pointing to different actors of the same name.  So even if the person has got metadata (but something is missing triggering a lookup) when I click the person the tv maze id may populate incorrectly, because the name matches.  This is more apparent in "voice over" actors for anime.

I think this might be tied to tvmaze not having the other provider ids, but not sure.
As well as doing some wrong it does plenty correctly too!

I really dont know what emby is doing with people, something is obviously an issue when Provider Id's are not present or available .....

This is the biggest issue for me with Emby

I have raised the point before that not being able to add a provider id here (ignore the names this is just a screenshot of the window to show where I am talking about)

(when you add people from the editor - ie manually adding cast to an item)

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It changes everyone of the same name if there is not provider id present - this is a BIG problem, because others should not be linked - but they are.

So because the user cannot add the id's, they cannot add a second person of the same name but different actor manually like this.

Here we may need an option:

Update existing Person
Add a new Person

This is an example of manually adding a person when someone of that name exists) - I know this actor will be correctly added by the movie adding the id from tmdb (but turn that off an see what i mean)

There are many people with Chris Evans that don't add properly (Even adult actors get the English Chris Evans attachment)

I add Chris Evans to Avengers: End Game (the actor on the right)
 

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I have to use (II) on their name which I do not want and manually check how many others of the same name there are (Chris Evans).

Adding an actor manually as Chris Evans with th movie editor always attaches to the first db entry - the English Presenter.

So Avengers Endgame will add the actor on the left, I have no choice here, I have to add (II) to the name to stop Emby doing that.

So now I have added the person, I have to Search Chris Evans (II) to get the Person view (without the movie) edit them in a seperate place

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Chnage their title and sort title to simply Chris Evans then add the imdb id nm0262635

so now I have more Chris Evans in my db, because they were added with seperate keys (guid)

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This then affects everything

Click each actor and then "appears in"

They are seperate - show different items.  The one on the left has 8 in my database, whilst the one on the right shows 50+

Again still with Chris Evans - in an adult library - the wrong person identified and attached

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Another

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This one is correct

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This one had to be manually edited as there is currently no id available, these movies are not in any of the databases so suffer with the duplicate name issue.

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A Custom Provider id, thats manually added seems to be ignored and the 4 metadata provider ids Imdb, Tvdb, Tmdb, TvMaze trigger an "can" and "do" fetch the wrong person.

 

Metadata readers dont run with refresh metadata when other settings are not selected

Image showing settings when they are not triggered

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  • There is an issue with refresh metadata when only metadata readers are selected, they don't run at all without an Metadata Downloader or Image Fetcher enabled.

Example? What makes you think this?

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Nothing updates, no matter how many times i click refresh metadata

Nothing Logs

Example my Info.txt plugin is enabled too, and it logs to a file - nothing logs

to be clear its when only metadata readers are selected and nothing else - they might run on a library scan, but dont on refresh metadata - replace all

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2 minutes ago, mickle026 said:

to be clear its when only metadata readers are selected and nothing else

Metadata readers read from local files only, they don't retrieve person data from remote services.

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On 1/15/2023 at 4:28 AM, mickle026 said:

Where TvMaze does not find the information, this plugin searches on bing and finds the ID (if it is available on TvMaze), sets the ID in Emby and allows the TvMaze plugin by Emby Dev to download the info using the ID rather than the name.

Technically you shouldn't need this but in Tests I have found it will *help* identify people that TvMaze is obviously not telling the Emby Dev's TvMaze plugin it has in its database

 

On 1/15/2023 at 4:28 AM, mickle026 said:

It looks on bing (not google this time) search engine for tvmaze links that contain the actor you are looking at or refreshing metadata on.
2. It collects links of possibles.
3. It only visits the links that might be valid and checks if the persons name is found in the actor page in order to verify it is valid.

 

To be honest, I can't believe that this method can improve anything. The only effect with this method is that you will get additional wrong persons.

On 1/15/2023 at 4:28 AM, mickle026 said:

in Tests I have found it will *help* identify people that TvMaze is obviously not telling the Emby Dev's TvMaze plugin it has in its database

I'm sure TvMaze is "telling" us all matching names they have in their database.

But then, our TvMazePersonProvider compares the year of birth of the persons in the TvMaze results and compares it with the birth-year that is stored in Emby (if there is one).
It it doesn't match, it doesn't use the result from TvMaze. That's the only reason for not taking a result.

So when you do a Bing search for finding the person name at TvMaze and then look at the TvMaze page and the name matches, then our TvMaze provider will have surely gotten this person result directly when querying. When the person has not TvMaze Id, then it means that our person provider did not take that person due to mismatching birth year.

When you say your plugin will cause more TvMaze Ids to be assigned to persons in Emby, then the most likely conclusion is that these are the persons where the year of birth didn't match.

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3 minutes ago, softworkz said:

Metadata readers read from local files only, they don't retrieve person data from remote services.

Im not trying to read remote files, my plugin reads local files.  As I dont have this particular movie in my movie api, I get no results from there.

But I have to enable it for the Local Metadata readers to run, or else the don't run at all.

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23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Comedy
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Movies
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Music
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Romance
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Spaghetti Westerns
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Western
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ReadLine] Overview: Disc 1:Billy The Kid Returns - Starring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette,An ex-sheriff strolls into town with only a knapsack and a smooth voice, but the townsfolk this he's Billy the Kid!,In Old Caliente - Starring Roy Rogers, Mary Hart Rogers, who works for respectable ranchero Don Jose, gets into a nasty row with a sinister foreman.,Rough Riders' Round-up - Starring Roy Rogers, Mary HartRoger and his buddies join the Texas patrol and learn that Arizona Jack is the ringleader of various local crimes.  The Arizona Kid - Starring Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" HayesRogers and Gabby learn that a group of supposed Confederate soldiers is terrorizing Union sympathizers.Sheriff of TombstoneStarring: Roy Rogers, George " Gabby" HayesRogers heads off to the lawless town of Tombstone. Things turn complicated when he is mistaken for a gunslinger.  Disc 2  The Cason City Kid - Starring Roy Rogers, Bob Steele, Rogers is a stagecoach robber searching for his brother's killer, and suspects a crooked saloon owner.  Young Bill Hickok - Starring Roy Rogers, Sally Payne. Hickok has been hired to secretly carry gold to the Union troops. His fiancée blows his cover to a greedy foreigner.  Home In Oklahoma - Starring Roy Rogers, Dale Evans. A boy inherits the estate of a murdered rancher. The only living heir is furious and sets out to kill the child.King of the Cowboys -Starring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette.  Rogers finds himself right in the middle of a carnival show that saboteurs are using as a cover!  The Cowboy and the Senorita - Starring Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Mary Lee.  Rogers befriends a young runaway from a rich ranching family. Together they look for her family's treasure.  Disc 3:  Man of the Frontier - Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette.  An irrigation company is constructing a dam for the local cattlemen, but sinister bankers try to undermine the project. 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Overview] found: Disc 1:Billy The Kid Returns - Starring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette,An ex-sheriff strolls into town with only a knapsack and a smooth voice, but the townsfolk this he's Billy the Kid!,In Old Caliente - Starring Roy Rogers, Mary Hart Rogers, who works for respectable ranchero Don Jose, gets into a nasty row with a sinister foreman.,Rough Riders' Round-up - Starring Roy Rogers, Mary HartRoger and his buddies join the Texas patrol and learn that Arizona Jack is the ringleader of various local crimes.  The Arizona Kid - Starring Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" HayesRogers and Gabby learn that a group of supposed Confederate soldiers is terrorizing Union sympathizers.Sheriff of TombstoneStarring: Roy Rogers, George " Gabby" HayesRogers heads off to the lawless town of Tombstone. Things turn complicated when he is mistaken for a gunslinger.  Disc 2  The Cason City Kid - Starring Roy Rogers, Bob Steele, Rogers is a stagecoach robber searching for his brother's killer, and suspects a crooked saloon owner.  Young Bill Hickok - Starring Roy Rogers, Sally Payne. Hickok has been hired to secretly carry gold to the Union troops. His fiancée blows his cover to a greedy foreigner.  Home In Oklahoma - Starring Roy Rogers, Dale Evans. A boy inherits the estate of a murdered rancher. The only living heir is furious and sets out to kill the child.King of the Cowboys -Starring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette.  Rogers finds himself right in the middle of a carnival show that saboteurs are using as a cover!  The Cowboy and the Senorita - Starring Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Mary Lee.  Rogers befriends a young runaway from a rich ranching family. Together they look for her family's treasure.  Disc 3:  Man of the Frontier - Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette.  An irrigation company is constructing a dam for the local cattlemen, but sinister bankers try to undermine the project.
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ReadLine] Oh, Susanna! - Starring Gene Autry.  Smiley Burnette Autry is tossed from a train by an escaped murderer, who takes on his identity.  Rim of the Canyon - Starring Gene Autry, Nan Leslie, Thurston Hall.  Three escaped criminals in search of their old hidden booty steal Autry's beloved horse, Champion.  Public Cowboy No.1 - Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette.  Cattle rustlers go high tech with short-wave radios and airplanes to create an impenetrable cattle-thieving ring.  Round-Up Time In Texas - Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette. Autry heads off to South Africa to deliver horses to his brother, but confronts a local bad guy and his minions.  Disc 4:  Riders of the Whistling Pines - Starring Gene Autry, Clayton Moore.  Autry is hired by the state to spray the territory with DDT to kill a moth infestation, but cattle start dying. 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ReadLine] Springtime in the Rockies - Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette - A college grad buys sheep to graze on her inherited ranch. Autry, the ranch manager, falls in love with her.  Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm - Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette - Autry takes on a ring of cattle rustlers by disguising himself in order to infiltrate the gang.  In Old Santa Fe - Starring Gene Autry, Ken Maynard - A sweet, lovesick cowboy is framed for murder. his ornery sidekick helps Autry out of trouble and win over the girl.  Man From Music Mountain - Disc 5:**  Rage at Dawn 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ReadLine] Buffalo Stampede.  Wagon Wheels.  **Disc 6:**  Abilene Town.  The Fighting Westerner.  To The Last Man** 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [PosterFound] found 'Poster.jpg'
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Updating metadata!]

 

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I hope this explains it, local readers are not running if nothing else is selected when using refresh metadata

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There are 2 threads going here

1. An issue running metadata readers. (so cross talk about a metadata reader is now in this thread)

2.  A small thing where tvmaze was not getting some id's.  We'll agree to dissagree here.   Im not going to argue about it.

Answering point 2, As I posted in the top of the plugin information
*A Caveat - it is possible that the wrong actor with the same name can be identified as correct*
Technically you shouldn't need this but in Tests I have found it will *help* identify people that TvMaze is obviously not telling the Emby Dev's TvMaze plugin it has in its database.

There was some at the time of testing although I cannot remmber which people at this time.  I agree with your statement that you should have the information available, but I dont know why I retrieved several correct people where tvmaze plugin itself didn't.  Probably something to do with search engine filtering as opposed to api filtering.. I don't know.

I can remove this plugin if you feel its no better - just use it myself.

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12 minutes ago, mickle026 said:

Im not trying to read remote files, my plugin reads local files.  As I dont have this particular movie in my movie api, I get no results from there.

But I have to enable it for the Local Metadata readers to run, or else the don't run at all.

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23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [NewRequest] ==========================================================
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [itemName] -----------[ Silver Screen Cowboys Collection ]-----------
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [itemPath] S:\metaserver\TIMBL\HOLYWOOD\S\Silver Screen Cowboys Collection (DVD)
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [FileRead] found 13 Lines in file
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ReadLine] Title: Silver Screen Cowboys Collection 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [MovieTitle] found: Silver Screen Cowboys Collection
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ReadLine] ProductionYear:  
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ReadLine] ReleaseDate: 2011-07-12 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ReleaseDate] found: '2011-07-12'
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ReleaseDate] extracted: 11/07/2011 23:00:00
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ReadLine] Barcode: 723721582968 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Barcode] found: 723721582968
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ReadLine] Studio: Allegro Entertainment 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ReadLine] Cast: Roy Rogers,Randolph Scott,Gene Autry,Mary Hart,Mala Powers,Rhonda Fleming,Dale Evans,Noah Beery,Edgar Buchanan,Gail Patrick,Lloyd Bridges,Bob Steel,Maxine Doyle,Mary Lee,Carol Hughes,Ann Sheridan,Julie Bishop,Smiley Burnette,Clayton Moore,Jack La Rue,Elyse Knox,Sally Payne,Monte Blue,Frances Grant,Jack LaRue,Katherine DeMille,Ivan Miller,Fred Kohler,Patricia White,Morgan Wallace,Ken Maynard,Sally March,Thurston Hall,Larry Crabbe,Earle Hodgins,Ann Rutherford,George Hayes,Leslie Carter,Nan Leslie 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Roy Rogers
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Roy Rogers
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Randolph Scott
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Randolph Scott
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Gene Autry
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Gene Autry
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Mary Hart
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Mary Hart
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Mala Powers
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Mala Powers
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Rhonda Fleming
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Rhonda Fleming
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Dale Evans
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Dale Evans
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Noah Beery
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Noah Beery
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Edgar Buchanan
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Edgar Buchanan
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Gail Patrick
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Gail Patrick
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Lloyd Bridges
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Lloyd Bridges
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Bob Steel
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Bob Steel
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Maxine Doyle
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Maxine Doyle
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Mary Lee
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Mary Lee
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Carol Hughes
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Carol Hughes
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Ann Sheridan
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Ann Sheridan
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Julie Bishop
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor] found: Julie Bishop
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [Actor Read Entry] found: Smiley Burnette
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.43 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Smiley Burnette
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Clayton Moore
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Clayton Moore
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Jack La Rue
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Jack La Rue
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Elyse Knox
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Elyse Knox
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Sally Payne
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Sally Payne
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Monte Blue
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Monte Blue
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Frances Grant
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Frances Grant
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Jack LaRue
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Jack LaRue
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Katherine DeMille
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Katherine DeMille
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Ivan Miller
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Ivan Miller
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Fred Kohler
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Fred Kohler
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Patricia White
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Patricia White
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Morgan Wallace
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Morgan Wallace
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Ken Maynard
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Ken Maynard
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Sally March
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Sally March
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Thurston Hall
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Thurston Hall
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Larry Crabbe
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Larry Crabbe
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Earle Hodgins
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Earle Hodgins
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Ann Rutherford
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Ann Rutherford
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: George Hayes
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: George Hayes
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Leslie Carter
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Leslie Carter
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor Read Entry] found: Nan Leslie
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Actor] found: Nan Leslie
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ReadLine] Directors: Joseph Kane,Mack V. Wright,William Witney,John English 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Director] found: Joseph Kane
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Director] found: Mack V. Wright
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Director] found: William Witney
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Director] found: John English
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ReadLine] Producers: Nat Levine,Armond Schaefer,Joseph Kane,Mack V. Wright,William Witney,John English 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Producer] found: Nat Levine
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Producer] found: Armond Schaefer
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Producer] found: Joseph Kane
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Producer] found: Mack V. Wright
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Producer] found: William Witney
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ImportPeopleImages] Scanning Directory
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Producer] found: John English
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ReadLine] Genres: Action,Boxed Sets,Collections,Comedy,Movies,Music,Romance,Spaghetti Westerns,Western 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Action
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Boxed Sets
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Collections
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Comedy
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Movies
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Music
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Romance
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Spaghetti Westerns
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Genre] found: Western
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ReadLine] Overview: Disc 1:Billy The Kid Returns - Starring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette,An ex-sheriff strolls into town with only a knapsack and a smooth voice, but the townsfolk this he's Billy the Kid!,In Old Caliente - Starring Roy Rogers, Mary Hart Rogers, who works for respectable ranchero Don Jose, gets into a nasty row with a sinister foreman.,Rough Riders' Round-up - Starring Roy Rogers, Mary HartRoger and his buddies join the Texas patrol and learn that Arizona Jack is the ringleader of various local crimes.  The Arizona Kid - Starring Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" HayesRogers and Gabby learn that a group of supposed Confederate soldiers is terrorizing Union sympathizers.Sheriff of TombstoneStarring: Roy Rogers, George " Gabby" HayesRogers heads off to the lawless town of Tombstone. Things turn complicated when he is mistaken for a gunslinger.  Disc 2  The Cason City Kid - Starring Roy Rogers, Bob Steele, Rogers is a stagecoach robber searching for his brother's killer, and suspects a crooked saloon owner.  Young Bill Hickok - Starring Roy Rogers, Sally Payne. Hickok has been hired to secretly carry gold to the Union troops. His fiancée blows his cover to a greedy foreigner.  Home In Oklahoma - Starring Roy Rogers, Dale Evans. A boy inherits the estate of a murdered rancher. The only living heir is furious and sets out to kill the child.King of the Cowboys -Starring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette.  Rogers finds himself right in the middle of a carnival show that saboteurs are using as a cover!  The Cowboy and the Senorita - Starring Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Mary Lee.  Rogers befriends a young runaway from a rich ranching family. Together they look for her family's treasure.  Disc 3:  Man of the Frontier - Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette.  An irrigation company is constructing a dam for the local cattlemen, but sinister bankers try to undermine the project. 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Overview] found: Disc 1:Billy The Kid Returns - Starring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette,An ex-sheriff strolls into town with only a knapsack and a smooth voice, but the townsfolk this he's Billy the Kid!,In Old Caliente - Starring Roy Rogers, Mary Hart Rogers, who works for respectable ranchero Don Jose, gets into a nasty row with a sinister foreman.,Rough Riders' Round-up - Starring Roy Rogers, Mary HartRoger and his buddies join the Texas patrol and learn that Arizona Jack is the ringleader of various local crimes.  The Arizona Kid - Starring Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" HayesRogers and Gabby learn that a group of supposed Confederate soldiers is terrorizing Union sympathizers.Sheriff of TombstoneStarring: Roy Rogers, George " Gabby" HayesRogers heads off to the lawless town of Tombstone. Things turn complicated when he is mistaken for a gunslinger.  Disc 2  The Cason City Kid - Starring Roy Rogers, Bob Steele, Rogers is a stagecoach robber searching for his brother's killer, and suspects a crooked saloon owner.  Young Bill Hickok - Starring Roy Rogers, Sally Payne. Hickok has been hired to secretly carry gold to the Union troops. His fiancée blows his cover to a greedy foreigner.  Home In Oklahoma - Starring Roy Rogers, Dale Evans. A boy inherits the estate of a murdered rancher. The only living heir is furious and sets out to kill the child.King of the Cowboys -Starring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette.  Rogers finds himself right in the middle of a carnival show that saboteurs are using as a cover!  The Cowboy and the Senorita - Starring Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Mary Lee.  Rogers befriends a young runaway from a rich ranching family. Together they look for her family's treasure.  Disc 3:  Man of the Frontier - Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette.  An irrigation company is constructing a dam for the local cattlemen, but sinister bankers try to undermine the project.
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ReadLine] Oh, Susanna! - Starring Gene Autry.  Smiley Burnette Autry is tossed from a train by an escaped murderer, who takes on his identity.  Rim of the Canyon - Starring Gene Autry, Nan Leslie, Thurston Hall.  Three escaped criminals in search of their old hidden booty steal Autry's beloved horse, Champion.  Public Cowboy No.1 - Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette.  Cattle rustlers go high tech with short-wave radios and airplanes to create an impenetrable cattle-thieving ring.  Round-Up Time In Texas - Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette. Autry heads off to South Africa to deliver horses to his brother, but confronts a local bad guy and his minions.  Disc 4:  Riders of the Whistling Pines - Starring Gene Autry, Clayton Moore.  Autry is hired by the state to spray the territory with DDT to kill a moth infestation, but cattle start dying. 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ReadLine] Springtime in the Rockies - Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette - A college grad buys sheep to graze on her inherited ranch. Autry, the ranch manager, falls in love with her.  Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm - Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette - Autry takes on a ring of cattle rustlers by disguising himself in order to infiltrate the gang.  In Old Santa Fe - Starring Gene Autry, Ken Maynard - A sweet, lovesick cowboy is framed for murder. his ornery sidekick helps Autry out of trouble and win over the girl.  Man From Music Mountain - Disc 5:**  Rage at Dawn 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [ReadLine] Buffalo Stampede.  Wagon Wheels.  **Disc 6:**  Abilene Town.  The Fighting Westerner.  To The Last Man** 
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [PosterFound] found 'Poster.jpg'
23.Jan.2023  -  22.55.44 [Updating metadata!]

 

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I hope this explains it, local readers are not running if nothing else is selected when using refresh metadata

Tested, no problem found. Disabled all providers on a movie library, the nfo provider was still used when refreshing metadata for a movie.

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1 minute ago, mickle026 said:

1. An issue running metadata readers. (so cross talk about a metadata reader is now in this thread)

Sure, I had understood that. I'll leave this for  @Luke to answer.

2 minutes ago, mickle026 said:

2.  A small thing where tvmaze was not getting some id's.  We'll agree to dissagree here.   Im not going to argue about it.

I'm not here to argue but to understand the issue. 

TvMaze have extended our API for us to get more data and I'm about to update our provider. That's why wanted to find out whether something could be improved regarding person data and that's why I was asking for example names.. 🙂 

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20 minutes ago, softworkz said:

Sure, I had understood that. I'll leave this for  @Luke to answer.

I'm not here to argue but to understand the issue. 

TvMaze have extended our API for us to get more data and I'm about to update our provider. That's why wanted to find out whether something could be improved regarding person data and that's why I was asking for example names.. 🙂 

As I honestly cannot remember which but was mostly working with Anime at the I did the plugin  time, Im wondering if it were because chinese and japanese names can be surname firstname or firstname surname? or spelt differently with accentuations and Bing might return the query in the results.  This plugin goes to the page and looks to see if the name is in the content, which if its on there as an alias it would be.  So maybe aliases?

As in my screenshot above Mary Hart is wrong.  4th person image, is a recent TV Presenter, not a western actor.  It is actually Lynne Roberts stage name (nm0731376)  I have no idea what you can do about that when the movie is missing from the search query

I can fix it with my plugin (the one I have not uploaded yet)

by adding a cast line

Cast: Lynne Roberts as Mary Hart (Stagename) [ Imdb: nm0731376 ]

604626200_Screenshot2023-01-23at23-31-28Emby.png.02dc4f540d3945eafb5f8862e0276f26.png

But in Embys current Editing form this is nigh on impossible to do within the Web Gui without altering the other May Hart if her actual name was Mary Hart!

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2 minutes ago, mickle026 said:

if it were because chinese and japanese names can be surname firstname or firstname surname? or spelt differently and Bing might return the query in the results.  This plugin goes to the page and looks to see if the name is in the content, which if its on there as an alias it would be.  So maybe aliases?

That's a good pointer. It could also be an issue regarding string formats, maybe chars are not handled properly, that's always a possible source of error.

Actually, I don't have good content for testing these things. Would you be able to PM me file lists for a few Chinese and Japanese series?

The creation is easy, just change to a series folder in a command window and run dir /B /S > filelist.txt 
With that list I can create a fake library - should have done this long ago for having some Anime content for testing.

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Heres some fake anime DVD library folders with a fake .mp4 file inside (these are DVD's not individual films, but some will identify as single films)

220 of them with Posters, and Emby generated *.nfo's

Emby will just pick this up and try adding it straight away because it thinks there are real movies in there (obviously ffprobe will error)

If you want more let me know i have lots and lots ......

A Fake Anime library.zip

My content is not in series order or chinese/japanese order.  They are DVDs.  Everything from everywhere is in there in alphabetical folders (A-Z).  And this particular FAKE DVD library has over 85,000 fake DVDs in it (with 0 byte fake .mp4 files).  Its over 8 gigabytes in size without actually having a single real movie in it. (it has posters though)

I created it and other similar libraries solely for testing my plugin as much as i could :) as well as for finishing myMovieApi plugin later on ...

This way im not touching my active server until im happy to do so.

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When checking names I'm now double checking, with the source name and removing diacritcs

TvMaze web api seems to be doing this anyway, so I don't know why when using the web url for the api I get results, but not when I click on the person in Emby from TvMaze?

 

So This is just brainstorming ..

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What I don't know is if using the api this way with cUrl and authentication (https://static.tvmaze.com/apidoc/) yields the same results.  There was some chat that I read said they were different api endpoints and that tvmaze would phase out the "old way" eventually. (I cant find that conversation right now)

If you can check if name contains diacritcs, if so search whatever api for both with and without (although it doesnt seem to matter on tvmazes web aapi  - this is an example of what i am doing elsewhere)

so Kôichi Sakaguchi & Koichi Sakaguchi

so im wondering if your verification simply needs a very small alteration similar to:

if ( name.ToLower() || RemoveDiacritics(name).ToLower()  )

Example using https://www.tvmaze.com/api:

if ( name.ToLower() == RemoveDiacritics(name).ToLower()  )
{
    // has diacritics - use both
	searchstring = $"https://api.tvmaze.com/search/people?q={name}+{RemoveDiacritics(name)}"
}
else
{
    // no diacritics - just use the name
	searchstring = $"https://api.tvmaze.com/search/people?q={name}"
}

https://api.tvmaze.com/search/people?q=Kôichi Sakaguchi+Koichi Sakaguchi

Name reversed

https://api.tvmaze.com/search/people?q=Sakaguchi Kôichi

 

like this for checking the html on the page:

if ( page.ToLower().Contains(tname) || page.ToLower().Contains(RemoveDiacritics(tname)))

using this from stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/249087/how-do-i-remove-diacritics-accents-from-a-string-in-net

static string RemoveDiacritics(string text)
        {
            string formD = text.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD);
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

            foreach (char ch in formD)
            {
                UnicodeCategory uc = CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory(ch);
                if (uc != UnicodeCategory.NonSpacingMark)
                {
                    sb.Append(ch);
                }
            }

            return sb.ToString().Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormC);
        }

my method seems to be working well (from anime-planet plugin thats I havent released)

24.Jan.2023  -  18.23.27 [GetImage] Searching for Person Image for: Katsumi Chô
24.Jan.2023  -  18.23.27 Url = https://bing.com/search?q="https://www.anime-planet.com/people/"+katsumi-chô
24.Jan.2023  -  18.23.27 Found link = https://www.anime-planet.com/people/katsumi-chou
24.Jan.2023  -  18.23.27 Testing Link = https://www.anime-planet.com/people/katsumi-chou
24.Jan.2023  -  18.23.28 Page claims to contain a Person image
24.Jan.2023  -  18.23.28 personimagelink: https://cdn.anime-planet.com/people/primary/katsumi-chou-1-190x285.jpg?t=1625787714
24.Jan.2023  -  18.23.28 [GetImages] SingleImage - Primary Image for "Katsumi Chô" was found: https://cdn.anime-planet.com/people/primary/katsumi-chou-1-190x285.jpg?t=1625787714

verify it with

https://www.bing.com/search?q=katsumi+chô

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