Please note: Your imdb.xml scraper is possibly half-broken

[enthalpient]

Hello, i'm a Meedio plugin developer and lately we got the idea to benefit from the power and relative simplicity of your xml / regex scraping architecture.

However, i noticed that your imdb.xml fails to grab a film's plot because the regex you use for this operation is not updated for the latest imdb site changes. I would update it myself, but i have no experience with the xbmc scrapers, so i would kindly request from anyone with better experience to update it, if it's not too much trouble.

Thanks!

[vdrfan]

Hi and welcome to our forums ;)

Our IMDb scraper is working fine for me and i don't really think its broken as i've updated it lately to support the newer themovie.db org api. Is there any special movie that fails?

[enthalpient]

Thanks for the prompt reply :)

I use the 'scrape.exe' utility to test your scraper, and on all movies i 'have tried, it fails on the GetMoviePlot function.

Could you please take a look on this function with scrape.exe and see if you find anything unusual? Thanks, keep up the great work!

[vdrfan]

Its not our scraper, it is the outdated scrap.exe code that's producing this issue. You will have to use XBMC to test the scrapers as i don't think the scrap utility will get fixed any soon.

[enthalpient]

Ok, so the scrap.exe is broken then.

Is there an official thread for this utility to report my problem?
Or an alternative scraper tester which provides output to command line, or a details.xml file? It's ok if there isn't, i will try to fix the scrape.exe utility, but if there is, information on where to find it would be helpful for me. Thanks again!

[jmarshall]

Hi there,

Unfortunately there is noone maintaining scrap.exe. You are most welcome to take it over if you wish. The sources are in xbmc/tools/Scrap.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[enthalpient]

Thanks Jonathan, i will have a look at them :)