Fixed IMDB scraper library 15 June 2010

Just extract the rar to your Media Companion directory, be sure to overwrite your old version.

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I have also updated the 3.293 release to include this library.

I have the movie "Thirteen Ghosts" in my movie folder and when it got scraped originally the old movie is the one that it came up with. Now I just went to the "Change Movie" button and it brought up IMDB and I selected the 2001 Thirteen Ghosts and clicked the "Go" button. When I do, I get a button that says "Please browse to a movie page". I've tried different ways of approaching this and even shutting down/restarting MC but I keep getting the same problem and it won't switch out the movie info. I hope this makes sense and I've posted this in the right spot. Also I am using your latest version and even downloaded that new .DLL even though you said it was already in this new version.

Thanks

badwulf wrote:

I have the movie "Thirteen Ghosts" in my movie folder and when it got scraped originally the old movie is the one that it came up with. Now I just went to the "Change Movie" button and it brought up IMDB and I selected the 2001 Thirteen Ghosts and clicked the "Go" button. When I do, I get a button that says "Please browse to a movie page". I've tried different ways of approaching this and even shutting down/restarting MC but I keep getting the same problem and it won't switch out the movie info. I hope this makes sense and I've posted this in the right spot. Also I am using your latest version and even downloaded that new .DLL even though you said it was already in this new version.

Thanks

I've just tested this, and it is working properly.

It seems that you are not browsing to the actual movie page.

When you click 'Go', Media Companion does a couple of checks to ensure that the url is a valid.
for Thirteen Ghosts, the url I get is:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245674/

The check is not mirror dependant and only looks at the last part (/title/tt0245674/)

If you are still having problems then let me know the url of the page when you click 'Go', you can find it by right mouse clicking on the webpage, and looking at the page properties.

billyad2000 wrote:

badwulf wrote:

I have the movie "Thirteen Ghosts" in my movie folder and when it got scraped originally the old movie is the one that it came up with. Now I just went to the "Change Movie" button and it brought up IMDB and I selected the 2001 Thirteen Ghosts and clicked the "Go" button. When I do, I get a button that says "Please browse to a movie page". I've tried different ways of approaching this and even shutting down/restarting MC but I keep getting the same problem and it won't switch out the movie info. I hope this makes sense and I've posted this in the right spot. Also I am using your latest version and even downloaded that new .DLL even though you said it was already in this new version.

Thanks

I've just tested this, and it is working properly.

It seems that you are not browsing to the actual movie page.

When you click 'Go', Media Companion does a couple of checks to ensure that the url is a valid.
for Thirteen Ghosts, the url I get is:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245674/

The check is not mirror dependant and only looks at the last part (/title/tt0245674/)

If you are still having problems then let me know the url of the page when you click 'Go', you can find it by right mouse clicking on the webpage, and looking at the page properties.

I tried it again and this is the url of the page I'm on when I click the "Go" button.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245674/

It's the same one you posted. I still get the same error. I thought I was doing everything right. It seems pretty straight forward. Some things did occur to me. What is the browser MC using based off of? Is it pulling from whatever my default browser is set to? My default browser is Chrome but I'm writing this post in Firefox. I use both pretty regular. IE is also installed, but only use it for MS stuff. I don't know if this has anything to do with it or not, but it was the only thing I could think of. Let me know. Thanks.

It looks like you are doing everything correctly,

For the purpose of selecting changed movies, Media Companion uses the .net embedded browser, your external browsers will not have any effect.

There will be another build of Media Companion this coming weekend and although I can't see why it is failing for you, i'll look into tweaking the check.

billyad2000 wrote:

It looks like you are doing everything correctly,

For the purpose of selecting changed movies, Media Companion uses the .net embedded browser, your external browsers will not have any effect.

There will be another build of Media Companion this coming weekend and although I can't see why it is failing for you, i'll look into tweaking the check.

Just an FYI. I did change my default browser to Firefox and tried it. No Change. I even made IE the default and tried it. No Change. As you say, being MC uses .net browser it should have not made any difference. I did also try checking the use external browser option and had no change. Of course that would have taken me out of MC all together and defeat my purpose. One thing I do notice though, is that when the .net browser first comes up it gives and error like it couldn't connect to the internet right away, but then it corrects itself automatically about after 3 seconds or so and loads IMDB fine. It says Navigation Cancelled. Try retyping the address. Then like I said it corrects itself. It seems this only happens on the initial launching of MC. Once it's browsed a page it doesn't give the that message again. It may or may not have anything to do with my issue, I'm just giving you all the details. The more you know the more you have to work with.

Just another bit of note for you as you check into this. When you told me that it was a .net Browser, I got to thinking maybe one of my installations of the .net framework was giving the trouble. I had four different versions installed, including the latest 4.0. I had 2.0, 3.0, 3.5SP1or2 and 4.0. So I started from the newest and began uninstalling back. I uninstalled 4.0 then tried the "Change Movie" option with the same results. I did the same thing for all versions down to 2.0 and never got it to work. I uninstalled them all and to make sure there wasn't some strange secret installation I ran MC and it would run. So knowing I had no more .net framework versions on the computer. I installed .net 3.5 from the link on your site. Ran the "Change Movie" option and still no luck. I know this is a lot to do, but I wanted to help rule some things out for you and hopefully maybe stumble on a fix myself. I'm going to try updating the 3.5 version with the latest SP and see if that does anything. Hope this info is helpful. Also I'm running XP PRO SP3 on this particular system. I'll give more details if I come across any.

billyad2000 wrote:

There will be another build of Media Companion this coming weekend

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