Issues not being found

[bfollowell]

I have three issues this week, from ongoing series that have always shown up on ComicVine, that are not pulling back any results. I've went to the site and confirmed that these issue are there. I have successfully scraped details for other comics. I'm just having trouble with these three issues not successfully scraping.

The issues in question are: Star Trek: New Visions, issue #19 Wonder Woman/Conan, issue #5 Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Legacy, Volume 2

Has anyone else noticed issues with these or other comics this week?

[miracle152004]

I also noticed it even manually searching for X-Men does not return any series.

[cbanack]

There are a bunch of problems with the search results on Comic Vine that popped up a few weeks ago. These problems break the way that the Comic Vine website returns search results to Comic Vine Scraper, so about all we can do is wait for them to fix the issues on their side.

There's been a lot of active discussion about this problem in the Comic Vine Scraper thread over on the ComicRack forums.

Someone also mentioned the problem in a thread over at the Comic Vine website.

The problem is, the search engine used by the scraper is actually written by a different video game website called Giant Bomb, and then used by Comic Vine, which is somehow affiliated with Giant Bomb. (I don't know the exact details.)

So the real problem is actually in Giant Bomb's hands; they need to fix the problem, pass the solution to Comic Vine, and then Comic Vine needs to update their public API to use the solution, so that Comic Vine Scraper starts getting good search results again. :(

To that end, there is also a forum thread that reports these problems over at Giant Bomb. This is probably the best place to watch for progress.