Collection wide db edit / Filter

[Alcyone7 8]

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 8]

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 8]

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?

[Luke 42519]

Have you explored the options on your movie library? You can disable importing collections.

[Alcyone7 8]

This has nothing to do with the collections feature. I want to block certain pointless data from being added to the database - basically the ever growing list of crew. Not sure how this relates to collections in anyway. I am confused - what am I missing?

[GrimReaper 4987]

9 minutes ago, Alcyone7 said:

Not sure how this relates to collections

Topic title made it sound like you are referring to Collections, as did a line in the post:

On 5/13/2026 at 8:34 PM, Alcyone7 said:

Is it possible to edit a collection to remove some of the drivel that is being imported

While technically true as it refers to your collection as a whole, it might also be (as Luke did) assumed it refers to Collections as item type - hence maybe library or Movies/TV shows might be more suitable description instead. 

BTW, I absolutely agree, there should be a way to prevent all those nonsense credits to be imported, I absolutely detest those, I guess you could lend your support here, so Cast and Crew could be split as separate categories and enabled/disabled as preferred:

 

Edited 51 minutes ago by GrimReaper

[Alcyone7 8]

Mmmm, even as of Luke’s 10th of May post, it seemed pretty clear this was about the type of data, not so much about to what subset, but yes, the word library would have been more appropriate given “collection” is an app specific term (collection of libraries just seemed verbose).

For clarity: ANY and all libraries is what was meant. 

[Alcyone7 8]

14 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Topic title made it sound like you are referring to Collections, as did a line in the post:

While technically true as it refers to your collection as a whole, it might also be (as Luke did) assumed it refers to Collections as item type - hence maybe library or Movies/TV shows might be more suitable description instead. 

BTW, I absolutely agree, there should be a way to prevent all those nonsense credits to be imported, I absolutely detest those, I guess you could lend your support here, so Cast and Crew could be split as separate categories and enabled/disabled as preferred:

 

The splitting would be a simple filter - while I don’t mind the director, I’d be happy to lose that data if it meant there was a quick and easy way to block the rest of the junk.