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[crusher11 1140]

17 minutes ago, Aleas said:

Wondering how hard would it be to add in support for IMDB lists?

IMDB's API costs tens of thousands of dollars, I believe.

[soderlund 105]

5 hours ago, crusher11 said:

A suggestion: if a scheduled rule with the priority override set returns zero results, nothing is tagged. It would be preferable—for my use case, at least—if it treated the schedule as inactive in that situation.

Agree, that would be the best way to handle that. I’ll see what i can do. 

36 minutes ago, Aleas said:

Wondering how hard would it be to add in support for IMDB lists?  I've been having issues with trakt.tv lately where it won't even load the webpage for me anymore.

Hard. Very hard… 

The API for IMDB is EXPENSIVE and not something any individual want to pay. A quick google search says around $150,000 per year… So the alternative is to scrape their website, but that is breaking ther Terms of service. Even so, I’m not willing to put down the time and effort to create that function. 

What you could do if you are having trouble with Trakt itself, is to use MDBList. MDBList can fetch list from trakt directly within its own filters. Search the public lists and you will probably find someone who has already created one that is available.

 

I’m curently working on some bug fixes and a new cleanup function (remove tags and collections on the server). I’m expecting to finish this update within a day or two. After this I’m gonna look into adding support for more external sources. 

Edited 1 hour ago by soderlund

[shinedou 7]

1 hour ago, soderlund said:

The API for IMDB is EXPENSIVE and not something any individual want to pay. A quick google search says around $150,000 per year… So the alternative is to scrape their website, but that is breaking ther Terms of service. Even so, I’m not willing to put down the time and effort to create that function. 

 

Bummer, because that's a great suggestion. I'm guessing then since both apps, Sonarr and Radarr, can import IMDB watchlists that they are doing it the unauthorized way. I doubt they are paying for the API.