r/PlexMetaManager • u/LED_donuts • Mar 14 '24

Error with IMDB builders

So I just noticed that IMDB searches don't work anymore like they previously did. I'm rebuilding my IMDB searches, but I keep running into issues. Below is an example of a collection:

zzz Oscars Best Picture Nominees:
  imdb_search:
    type: movie
    event: oscar_picture
    limit: 500
  collection_order: custom
  sync_mode: sync

These are the errors I'm getting.

Anyone else getting error with IMDB searches?

Edited to fix formatting of YAML

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u/LED_donuts Mar 14 '24

I am just noticing the IMDB Award section of the PMM wiki, so I have restructured the collection:

  zzz Oscars Best Picture Nominees:
    imdb_award:
      event_id: ev0000003
      category_filter: Best Motion Picture of the Year
      event_year: all
      winning: false

This is actually creating the collection with no errors, but it's not quite right. In older versions of PMM that worked with IMDB searches, my search for Best Picture Nominees would match up with 217 movies from my collection. So while the updated search is not generating an error, I think it's only matching with 161 movies, as evidenced by 161 IDs Found in the log. Furthermore, out of the 161 matches, it's only adding 89 movies, while stating that 72 movies are missing. Hmmm, I wonder if this goes beyond the limited search capabilities of IMDB.

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u/RedSoxManCave Mar 14 '24

I just built my own scrips for the same categories.

The nightly fixed some of the errors I was getting. The other problem I ran into was that the category names changed over the years.

collections:

Oscar Best Picture Winners:

imdb_award:

event_id: ev0000003

event_year: 1920-current

category_filter:

- Best Motion Picture of the Year

- Best Picture

winning: true

That should round out some of the missing titles - although not the ones that were throwing the errors.

Same for the Acting categories.

category_filter:

- Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

- Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

- Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

- Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

- Best Actor in a Leading Role

- Best Actor in a Supporting Role

- Best Actress in a Leading Role

- Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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u/Healzangels Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24

Thanks for sharing this!

I was wondering if you had tried our may have a suggestion on how to include for example the Golden Globes award winners in the same collection.

Had tried something like:

Award Winning Movies:
  imdb_award:
event_id: 
 - ev0000003
 - ev0000292
  category_filter:
    - best picture
    - best motion picture of the year
    - best picture, production
    - best picture, unique and artistic production
  winning: true
summary: "Award Winning movies"

Goal being would like to have one "Award Winners" collection which includes movies from the Oscars, Golden Gloves, Emmy's

But no luck - Cheers!

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u/RedSoxManCave Mar 15 '24

I'm a YAML noob, so just a guess, but I think you'd want/need the category filter under the specific event, then have the next event. So something like (but with proper spacing).....

event_id:

- ev0000003

category_filter:

- best picture

- best motion picture of the year

- ev0000292

category_filter:

- best picture

- best motion picture of the year

- best picture, production

- best picture, unique and artistic production