Collection wide db edit / Filter

[Alcyone7 6]

Is it possible to edit a collection to remove some of the drivel that is being imported.  Of the scrapers, one imports very little, one is very poor quality (things missing) and that leaves the other.  It started with actors and director, then it became actors, director(s) and a few other crew.  It is now getting way out of hand.  Last scrape imported a ridiculous list of actors (many showing as uncredited), but now its the 10 producers, the person designing the storyboard (literally who cares - its nothing we the viewers get to see!?), composers, story writers, authors, screenwriters... etc. 

Need a way to limit the drivel, cast is the cast, the identifier is the same, but the other roles have a few identifiers.  Is it possible, even with the API, to remove from a collection all entries for screenwriter (or any other crew role) that I simply don't care about, which is simply bloating the db, not to mention the .jpg headshots being downloaded.

[Luke 42519]

Hi, so you want to limit what types of cast members are imported?

[Alcyone7 6]

That would be nice to stop the explosion of absolute nonsense being imported in the future.  How to expunge the drivel already imported?

For some recent titles it has become 20+ entries, multiple producers (bean counters and vanity credits), screenwriters, storyboard artists, novel, screenplay, original score (really), composer... an increasing amount of mostly irrelevance. Not that Emby is responsible for what the scrapers put in the DB, but surely there is a mechanism to block/filter out the dross (and remove it from what has been catalogued). Not sure if SAG-AFTRA have bought one of the scraper databases, but the list of non-actors is getting out of control.

[Luke 42519]

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How to expunge the drivel already imported?

You obviously could edit the database, although you may still have the content in nfo files.

@Happy2Playmay have some bulk edit nfo tips.

[Alcyone7 6]

21 hours ago, Luke said:

You obviously could edit the database, although you may still have the content in nfo files.

@Happy2Playmay have some bulk edit nfo tips.

No nfo files, so it’s just the database. Whilst editing the db manually using sql isn’t a major issue (a pain), pretty pointless if Emby keeps scraping the drivel. Any thoughts on how to block the future junk?