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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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'Direct URL' searching doesn't always work #456

Closed cbanack closed 6 years ago

cbanack commented 6 years ago

As described here, there may be an issue with the hidden "direct URL search" feature in the scraper. Take a look to see if it still works properly.

cbanack commented 6 years ago

The actual problem here was simply that the user was searching by pasting in the URL of a Comic Vine issue, rather than a Comic Vine volume (series). But this is a pretty easy mistake to make; I've done it myself many times.

So as of 1.0.95, the scraper's series search feature will recognize issue URLs, and use them to 'work back' to the correct series. This is a bit slower than just searching for the series URL, since it requires and extra trip to the ComicVine API ... but at least it works now.

Incidentally, the CVINFO file feature also inherits this enhancement now.