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Auto search for movie/series on torrent, usenet, ddl, subtitles, streaming, predb and other sites. Adds links to IMDb pages from hundreds various sites. Adds movies/series to Radarr/Sonarr. Adds external ratings from Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, Letterboxd, Douban, Allocine. Media Server indicators for Plex, Jellyfin, Emby. Dark theme/style for Reference View. Adds/Removes to/from Trakt's watchlist. Removes ads
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Netflix search doesn't work #207

Closed alcoolfire closed 7 months ago

alcoolfire commented 8 months ago

I think there is a bug pertaining to how search strings are being escaped. For example, with the Netflix icon site enabled, I visit https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8002382/reference and then click the Netflix icon, which leads me to https://www.netflix.com/search?q=The%2BMarsh%2BKing%27s%2BDaughter with no match found. The reason is made clear by the contents of the Netflix page search box, which shows:

The+Marsh+King's+Daughter

Those '+' characters should be spaces, like this:

The Marsh King's Daughter

A search query in a URL can encode a space as '+' or %20, but %2B is always incorrect as that is insisting the movie title actually has '+' characters in it. If I'm understanding https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1634271/url-encoding-the-space-character-or-20, then it's best to just not use the '+' character for space encoding and just stick to percent-encoding for everything in the query string?

Purfview commented 8 months ago

...but %2B is always incorrect...

Write that to the Netflix.

...then it's best to just not use the '+' character for space encoding and just stick to percent-encoding for everything...

We don't have control of how the sites encode urls, here we don't encode urls. Here by default we replace spaces with '+' as that's what most sites accepts, you can change default behavior with spaceEncode.

I think there is a bug pertaining to how search strings are being escaped. For example, with the Netflix icon site

Not a bug in general, it's a bug with Netflix entry. The sites can change their code and a site entry may stop working after some time. So, submit PR with a correcting update. [look at "Netflix-DVD" entry]

alcoolfire commented 8 months ago

My apologies for not cluing in that no escaping was being done. Maybe I'm still missing something, but that would seem to be a more general problem for movie titles containing other characters that are not legal or have special meaning in URLs (eg. '%', '#', accented characters, non-ASCII, etc), for all sites, not just Netflix.

Anyway, for Netflix its own search functionality generates URLs using %20 for spaces. Example:

https://www.netflix.com/search?q=The%20Marsh%20King%27s%20Daughter

I guess this means your Netflix entry does need a spaceEncode key just like for Netflix-DVD, or maybe '%20'? I'm afraid I don't know how to submit a PR.

Purfview commented 8 months ago

...but that would seem to be a more general problem for movie titles containing other characters...

Yes, searching by the title is always wonky. Best is if a site supports searching by IMDb ID.

I guess this means your Netflix entry does need a spaceEncode key just like for Netflix-DVD, or maybe '%20'?

Test what works, I can't.

I'm afraid I don't know how to submit a PR.

It's simple, look there -> https://github.com/Purfview/IMDb-Scout-Mod/issues/209

alcoolfire commented 7 months ago

The instructions in #209 didn't match exactly with the steps I had to follow, but I'm hopeful I've managed it with PR #210.

Purfview commented 7 months ago

The instructions in https://github.com/Purfview/IMDb-Scout-Mod/issues/209 didn't match exactly with the steps I had to follow

Then you can post there an alternative instruction seen by you. Btw, I checked before writing what buttons to press, maybe stuff is different for you for some reason.

I've managed it with PR https://github.com/Purfview/IMDb-Scout-Mod/pull/210.

Merged!

alcoolfire commented 7 months ago

Thank you :-)

I'm using a somewhat unusual browser configuration, so that likely explains why I'm seeing steps a little different than you.