"People" search doesn't forward to Radarr

[jfeeser]

Hi there,

I've got PMM working really well, and have lots of collections set up. One thing i've noticed is that while "chart" and "list" collections based on IMDB and Trakt seem to add things that are missing from the list to Radarr, (e.g. IMDB top 250, Trakt list of the Criterion Collection movies), when i do a search on TMDB for, say, a Director, it creates the collection properly for existing movies, but it doesn't seem to add movies missing from the list to radarr. Can this behavior be changed?

[meisnate12]

can you paste your collection configuration for that collection

[jfeeser]

templates:

  Director:
    director: tmdb
    tmdb_person: <<person>>
    sort_title: 00 - 03 - Collections - <<collection_name>>
    sync_mode: sync
    collection_order: release

 Collection:
   Sam Raimi Collection:
     summary: Samuel Marshall "Sam" Raimi is an American film director, producer, actor and writer. He is best known for directing cult horror films like the Evil Dead series, Darkman and Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules The Legendary Journeys, Xena Warrior Princess, Legend of the Seeker and Spartacus Blood and Sand.
     template: {name: Director, person: 7623}
     schedule: monthly(1)

[jfeeser]

i basically lifted this from the metadata config example file in the wiki.

[meisnate12]

The reason this doesn't work with radarr is because it's looking at who's the director in the plex director field using plex search. All it's getting from tmdb is the pic, bio, and the actors name. So it's only looking at your plex, not tmdb or any other site.

You might be able to get what your looking for using tmdb_discover and using with_cast, with_crew, or with_people.

[jfeeser]

I just gave it a go and no such luck there, unfortunately. With_crew is too broad - in the example of Sam Raimi, it's picking up everything he directed, but it's also returning hits for things like screenwriter, producer, etc.

[jfeeser]

FWIW, i just did some digging on the TMDB forums and it looks like "with_crew" doesn't support being that granular - their recommendation is to pull the "crew" results and then filtter by "job".

https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/5c3642ac0e0a265a7d7c972f

[meisnate12]

Ok I can work with that I'll see what I can come up with for you

[meisnate12]

I had to add the credits endpoints to tmdbv3api so now I'm waiting on their PyPl to be updated to 1.7.5 then this can continue

[meisnate12]

ok you can now use tmdb_actor, tmdb_crew, tmdb_director, tmdb_producer, and tmdb_writer in the develop branch if you care to test before its pushed into full release

[jfeeser]

Just tested it out and it works great. Thanks!