YAMJ r3500 broke IMDb regional override setting

[Omertron]

Original issue 2590 created by Omertron on 2013-02-01T21:04:07.000Z:

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
r3500 has broken the imdb.site=us setting used to avoid getting regional titles from IMDb based on IP. I now get Norwegian titles on some films.

What version/revision of YAMJ are you using? On what operating system?
r3500

What skin are you using?
Eversion

[Omertron]

Comment #1 originally posted by Omertron on 2013-02-01T23:36:12.000Z:

This has nothing to do with YAMJ.

It seeams that IMDb is changing the layout of all other sides (not only the US-side).
Also the search results has changed, so that some other methods must be implemented.
We will see what changes comes next.

For your request:
I don't think that YAMJ can override any IP-bassed localization. Perhaps
there's a setting for URL requests in order to use unlocalized behaviour; but at the moment it works as desired.

[Omertron]

Comment #2 originally posted by Omertron on 2013-02-02T10:56:32.000Z:

Hm, I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but are you saying it's currently not possible to override the regional title retrieval from IMDb? I've always used imdb.site=us or imdb.site=labs to solve this and it's worked up until the last couple of days.

[Omertron]

Comment #3 originally posted by Omertron on 2013-02-02T20:17:43.000Z:

At the moment: NO
This is not YAMJ specific problem; this depends on the IMDb site itself,
where we have no impact on.

[Omertron]

Comment #4 originally posted by Omertron on 2013-02-02T21:07:00.000Z:

One ide for testing to you:

Set in your own moviejukebox.properties:
imdb.full.info=true

Then the combined IMDB page is use for scraping; as I seen
so far these pages are not geo-localized at the moment.
Perhaps in some days or weeks this also will change;
depends what IMDB's master plan is ...

[Omertron]

Comment #5 originally posted by Omertron on 2013-02-02T21:19:29.000Z:

Other possible workaround:

Additonaly set in your moviejukebox.properties:
imdb.site=labs

But note:
This are only workarounds!

[Omertron]

Comment #6 originally posted by Omertron on 2013-02-03T13:05:26.000Z:

I tried your workarounds but none of them really work. Using imdb.full.info=true does nothing alone, nor does imdb.site=labs, but using both at the same time seems to fix the localised title issue. However, it's not able to pull the plot/synopsis when both of these are in effect.

I use full info /combined on IMDb on my computers and I do not get localised titles here.

This is really annoying. About 30% of my films have Norwegian titles now that don't make any sense to me at all.

[Omertron]

Comment #7 originally posted by Omertron on 2013-02-03T17:00:20.000Z:

My last idea for a workaround with correct plot:
imdb.full.info=true
imdb.site=labs
imdb.plot=long

At least:
Using NFO files; just the ID and correct values (i.e. title) in the NFO
which cannet be scraped correctly from IMDB.

[Omertron]

Comment #8 originally posted by Omertron on 2013-02-03T18:01:09.000Z:

Yep, using plot=long works. But the long plots don't fit in my skin and it just ends up looking really messy, so it's not really a solution for me, I'm afraid.

I can add NFO's for any new films added that get scraped with localised titles (I'm already doing this now), but it's not an option having to do this with my already existing 1000+ film library.

I hope this get fixed sometime in the not so distant future. Damn IMDb and their constant need to change around things all the time!

[Omertron]

Comment #9 originally posted by Omertron on 2013-02-13T22:30:53.000Z:

Close cause IMDB geo location cannot be overriden.

Instead the TheMovieDB-Plugin can be used for scraping.
Or the creation of NFO files for the movies.

[Omertron]

Comment #10 originally posted by Omertron on 2013-02-14T18:27:40.000Z:

Reopened in order to fix geo location problem,
by retrieving alias for preferred country from releaseinfo page

[Omertron]

Comment #11 originally posted by Omertron on 2013-02-15T20:31:25.000Z:

This issue was closed by revision r3520.

[Omertron]

Comment #12 originally posted by Omertron on 2013-02-15T20:34:35.000Z:

See:
http://code.google.com/p/moviejukebox/wiki/PropertiesConfiguration#imdb.aka.scrape.title

Now there is the possibility to scrape th localized title for the preferred country.