Improve MBS scraping results

[shudder 1]

Sorry, just added the note that I'm looking for a way to do this without using the web interface.

I have an enormous number of movies and I thought if there would be a way to lodge the correct ID in a file in the same folder (because this could be easily done via a script)

that would save me a lot of time.

[Luke 42077]

if you use the above it will read the imdb id from movie.xml, however, the xml is treated a complete record. it will see the xml and assume you do not want that overwritten by internet metadata. so you will then need to manually refresh using the web interface after that.

 

if you're going to do this, use kodi style nfo's instead of the older movie.xml format.

[shudder 1]

Thanks for your quick help but I'm still struggling to get it working I'm afraid.

I have placed a file called movie.nfo in the folder, content as follows:

<movie>
  <id>tt1321511</id>
</movie>

I have performed a manual refresh of the movie from the web interface

but the field 'IMDb ID' remains empty and no other information are added.

Can you think of anything else I might be missing?

[Luke 42077]

only guess is, when you change a file it takes 30 or so seconds for the realtime montior to pick it up. if you are refreshing before the change is picked up, then depending on the type of refresh you chose it might be going straight to the internet instead of the file.

 

but most of all this is not a typical workflow so you might have to continue to investigate a little.

[shudder 1]

Hi,

 

I'm really new to MB, so please bear with me in case my question is somewhat stupid.

I have a couple of movies that MBS isn't able to identify unless I'm doing it manually.

Main reason probably is that the folder names are not "clean" but mostly have scene release names, such as Movie.2014.AC3.x264-Group etc.

However, I do know the iMDB id for each movie and I have read something about a file called movie.xml so I manually added such a file with the following content to the folder of an unidentified movie:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<movie>
  <imdbid>tt1321511</imdbid>
</movie>

I did a re-scan of the folder and even of the entire library but unfortunately that doesn't seem to have impressed MBS a lot.

The movie is still not identified.

 

Is there anything I can do to improve the scraping result while only knowing the iMDB id of the movie? (Without using the web-interface I mean).

Edited October 27, 2014 by shudder

[Luke 42077]

if you need to manually specify an id, don't mess with the files. just use the web interface.

[shudder 1]

Thanks for your hints so far.

I was playing around a little bit and finally succeeded when

the nfo file is having the exact filename as the video file plus .nfo file extension.

 

I was assuming that it would be enough to save a file called movie.nfo in case the movie is located in a dedicated directory.

Is this the desired behavior or should this be treated as a bug?

[ebr 16169]

Don't we still read [imdbid=xxxx] in the file name?  That might be the easiest way in his case.

[shudder 1]

That also sounds like an interesting option but I had not yet a chance to test it.

Can you confirm that this is (and will be) a valid work-around?