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auslander
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 Posted - 13 Apr 2011 : 12:43:41
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| Why isn't the biography of the directors imported, too? It gets imported for Charlie Chaplin, for example, but I suppose this happens only because he was an actor, too. Still, there is no biography imported in XMM for Ingmar Bergman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122/) or Andrey Tarkovskiy (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001789/), which are both very famous directors. |
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Prinz
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Germany
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Posted - 13 Apr 2011 : 13:31:29
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Additional Info is only imported in the Actors Block in the Scripts. All other Blocks only import the Name.
The effort to add this to other fields would be great, because the magic script engine doesn't know the concept of a user defined function that can be called inside the scripts on different positions.
It would make things much easier for script writers if magic script would add user-defined functions, especially for "actor". If I only think how much work it was adding actors completely to the main and episode part in the IMDB.com for TV Shows. Not to mention the big amount of (almost) duplicate code. And all this has to be corrected every time the site changes. So without a way define such a userdefined function and calling it in different blocks the effort to the maintain the scripts would increase drastically, not to mention the multiple possibilities for bugs.
So i would say: As long as magic script doesn't add the possibility of a user-defined function I will not add additional imports in other blocks. |
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auslander
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Posted - 13 Apr 2011 : 13:44:58
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| Well, if it cannot be imported at the same time with the other info, isn't it possible to make a script that updates the biography if the IMDB ID is inserted? |
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Prinz
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Germany
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Posted - 13 Apr 2011 : 13:57:51
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| You can use the IMDB.COM (Actors) or any other actors script to import the data. For XMM all people are Actors (Director, Producer,...) |
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auslander
Starting Member
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Posted - 13 Apr 2011 : 14:09:16
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Don't know why, but IMDB.COM (Actors) is no longer present in the list, when initializing the update, though it hasn't been deleted from the Scripts folder.
LE: I managed to update the info of Frank Capra and Stanley Kubrick, using the IMDB.COM Actors script (this one cannot be selected as a script for Quick Update, that's why I wrote that ^^^). However, I have http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212712/ in my database and when I try to update the info for the director - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939182/, it only downloads the photo, and the update window closes suddenly, even though there would be more info to import - in this case, birth date. Despite the photo being downloaded, it doesn't show up in XMM.
Besides, when using the IMDB.COM (Actors) script for directors, the imported filmography only includes the movies, if any, in which the director was an actor. The movies directed by that particular director do not make it to the list. |
Edited by - auslander on 13 Apr 2011 14:59:05 |
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Prinz
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Germany
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Posted - 13 Apr 2011 : 15:22:57
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Originally posted by auslander
Besides, when using the IMDB.COM (Actors) script for directors, the imported filmography only includes the movies, if any, in which the director was an actor. The movies directed by that particular director do not make it to the list.
Of course not, because the script is for actors. Most people have credits listed for more then acting (writing, producing, directing,...) but that isn't imported of course, because it's for actors (XMM only knows Actors).
Kar Wai Wong import is working here.
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Biography of Directors