cbanack / comic-vine-scraper

An add-on script for ComicRack that lets you copy details from Comic Vine into your comic books.
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Choose which fields can be overwritten #333

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
The scraper has an option to A) overwrite checked fields and B) even if the new 
data is empty.

That works great for series with mismatched names and dates, but what about 
when there's a field you "sometimes" have filled correctly (or not)?

I'm asking for a sub-check that tells the scraper to ONLY overwrite a field if 
it is A[checked and empty] or B[checked and sub-checked]

For example in the details tab, you could [alt/shift/ctrl/right]+click a 
checked field and then it will be highlighted red/green/blue/whatever and then 
the scraper will only overwrite it if it is already empty, but will act as 
normal for the other fields.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by echerr...@yahoo.com on 12 Jun 2013 at 4:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep it in mind when I'm next working on the 
scraper.

In the meantime, I encourage you to "fix" any outright incorrect fields on the 
Comic Vine website (rather than in your comics) that way you don't need to 
worry about overwriting.  

And for "personal" changes that Comic Vine won't accept (i.e. you don't like 
the name they used for a certain publisher) you could take a look at the 
"ComicRack Data Manager plugin".   There are a number of people whose new comic 
day routine is to 1) scrape with Comic Vine Scraper, then 2) run Data Manager 
to restore all their "personalizations" to the metadata for those comics.

Original comment by cban...@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2013 at 4:41