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The best solution to the problem of reviews could be a script that could import the text of reviews from the URL of a page which has that review. Thus, for instance, someone looking to import two reviews of Superman (2025) [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5950044], ran the script and provided it with ...

But since I've been using the other script for a long time, I would like to ask if there is a possibility to add some options:
- I use different separator for Country and Category. I use slash '/', rather than comma ','
- I format actors as "actor (as character), actor (as character), ..."
- I use ...

No more nonsense reviews!

So, is not possible to import the video format? (Aspect ratio), or there is something Im not understanding? The other script automatically add that data into the specified field.

"Video Format" field is the information of your physical files, aka "AVC", "MPEG4" & ect, all those fields below ...

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but your script is not importing the Video Format


The “Video Format” field and all other fields below the “File Path” are for file information, not something to be imported from IMDb.


Also, could you add more options into the imagesize to get posters ...

If you thought it was very fast before, try it now.

Munkey, would it be possible to incorporate one more feature in your wonderful script, please?: It would be great if the script could import "runtime/s" of the movies because that helps one correctly label theatrical releases, director's cuts, unrated cuts, etc.


Added this feature in v1.0.7 ...

Waiting for the [actor ... character] format and the tagline import now.


Both features are implemented now:


1.0.6 - (2025/07/02) - Fixed rare Cloudflare/API timeout bug by changing a credits endpoint to a faster one.
- Reworked all credits.
- Renamed CreditsLimit to ActorsLimit.
- Added ...

I am not registered on IMDB so I did not enable the user ID, but my batchmode is set to 0 and I got the 504 gateway time-out error on both the titles that you referred to the very first time I tried importing information for them. Other titles continue to work fine.

Thanks for the test, that ...

New version:

1.0.5 - (2025/06/29) - Added support for "My ratings" field. [IMDB_userID must be set]
- Added CreditsLimit option.
- Reworked Director/Writer/Actors.
- Fixed country errors: 'West Germany','East Germany','Soviet Union','Czechoslovakia',
'Yugoslavia','Zaire','Serbia and Montenegro ...

Lemaireus wrote: 2025-06-27 06:10:42 Yes, please. A fully functional script should be able to import all the fields. Will give this one a run through once it covers all the fields.

v1.0.4 should support all fields. Please report if something is not working.

antp wrote: 2025-06-27 07:00:25 together looks strange, but I'm maybe a typography maniac/nerd

Looks OK for me as it is.

antp wrote: 2025-06-27 07:00:25 About the UTF8 conversion, AMC does not support it...

Thanks for info, fixed those few country names in v1.0.2

Thanks :)
It is indeed much simplier than parsing the pages. We'll see how long this API stays available.


You are welcome!
It's up for few years, so I hope they will not obfuscate access to it.


The time I create a github account and install software locally I see you already changed it on ...

antp wrote: 2025-06-27 06:51:35 Thank you to MrObama2022 for all the work (and to Munkey for the alternative script)
I'll soon update AMC's install package to include both of these, now that it seems stable

I would let few days more for them to be tested.

I wrote alternative script for IMDB, it's using original IMDb's API -> viewtopic.php?t=43842

Alternative IMDb script to get info from original API. Aims to be simpler, faster & reliable.

Download from: https://github.com/Purfview/IMDB_ALT

Version Log:

1.1.0 - (2025/07/06) - Improvement: Get the most helpful review instead of "featured" nonsense.
- Moved less important options to ...

MrObama2022 wrote: 2025-06-22 15:11:33

Lemaireus wrote: 2025-06-22 12:32:06 I also seem to get somewhat random country names in the first line of the 'Description' box: Argentina is the most frequent one, followed by Australia and, only once, Germany.

can you give an example please? imdb url ...

I posted about this bug with imdb link in the previous page.

MrObama2022 wrote: 2025-06-20 16:34:24 They have a free trial and they have free access only if you have a paid AWS data exchange account

I dunno about that, it just works.

I think this whole script needs to be rewritten to something more modern instead of getting stuff from HTML elements.

Or were you thinking about something else than parsing public pages? IMDb does not provide free APIs to retrieve their data more efficiently, as far as I know.


It has free ...

Quick hack to get "LargePictureHeight" working, replace these 678 & 679 lines in "5.0 beta 4":


if (fieldName = 0) then
GetPicture(FieldValue)


with:


if (fieldName = 0) AND (GetOption('ImageKind') = 3) then
begin
FieldValue := TextBefore(FieldValue, '._', '') + '._V1_SY' + GetParam ...