The Movie DB Scraper

[BiTeTHeBiGG 13]

Hi,

 

just getting wrong results for a movie and after watching in the logs I see that the words separated by a dot are are not transformed in query url for the api.

2020-03-21 14:21:45.046 Info App: MovieDbProvider: Finding id for item: Frankensteins.Kampf.gegen.die.Teufelsmonster
2020-03-21 14:21:45.046 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&query=Frankensteins.Kampf.gegen.die.Teufelsmonster&language=de

So the movie "Frankensteins Kampf gegen die Teufelsmonster" with file name "Frankensteins.Kampf.gegen.die.Teufelsmonster.1971.mkv" will be searched with this URL and you wont get the right result.

After replacing the dots with a plus sign gets me to the right movie.

I think there was in the past a similar behaviour? Or was it fot the tvdb api?

When I use this URL, then all is ok.

 

I'm on Synology, Emby 4.3.1.0 and plugin 1.3.0.0 .

 

Best regards

BiTe

Edited March 21, 2020 by BiTeTHeBiGG

[Luke 42083]

Hi, yes we already have handling for this. If the first attempt produces no results then it will adjust the name and try again.

[BiTeTHeBiGG 13]

Hi Luke, yes this will happen when no results. But in my example there are results, many, but no one is the right one and I have to identify manually with spaces.

Greets

BiTe

[Luke 42083]

Yea i see your point. This is a tricky one though as we've had it this way for a long time so there's a potential to create new problems. Ideally moviedb would have some guidance on whether or not you should pre-process the search terms before using the search api, and if so, how @@Happy2Play.