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wrong tomatoURL #173

Closed piramiday closed 4 years ago

piramiday commented 4 years ago

I have tried querying (e.g.) Donnie Yen's latest Ip Man movie, that is:

unfortunately the following query:

https://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=$KEY&tomatoes=true&i=tt2076298

returns a wrong tomatoURL:

  "tomatoURL": "http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771414063/",

which redirects to https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/:vanity ...

is this expected? I was hoping to use OMDb to get reliable results. :confused: any help is appreciated! :wave:

piramiday commented 4 years ago

another case of wrong tomatoURL:

the API at https://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt6723592&tomatoes=true&apikey=X returns the following tomatoURL:

which replies (without redirects) as if we queried Wonder Woman 1984:

@omdbapi: in #189 you wrote that this project is not discontinued -- could you please let us know:

thanks!

tgreve15 commented 4 years ago

Check those entries in wikidata, perhaps whoever entered it there got it wrong

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another case of wrong tomatoURL:

the API at https://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt6723592&tomatoes=true&apikey=X returns the following tomatoURL:

which replies (without redirects) as if we queried Wonder Woman 1984:

@omdbapi https://github.com/omdbapi: in #189 https://github.com/omdbapi/OMDb-API/issues/189 you wrote that this project is not discontinued -- could you please let us know:

  • why such errors occur,
  • how to deal with those, if not opening issues on Github,
  • whether there is a better way?

thanks!

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piramiday commented 4 years ago

Check those entries in wikidata, perhaps whoever entered it there got it wrong

I don't see why -- omdb does not parse data from wikidata, because I'm doing that in parallel and the results are different.

for example, wikidata reports the identifiers correctly for Tenet: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63985561

omdbapi commented 4 years ago

@piramiday Both of these entries have been fixed, the issue is caused when studios use code names (working titles) for movies and the data is stored before the final name.

To reduce data from disappearing if there is a non-NULL value it doesn't update it with the new title as sometimes the updated title can be wrong, the only fields that get updated regularly are ones that change a lot, votes, ratings, metascores etc.

tgreve15 commented 4 years ago

According to other postings it pulls from Wikidata and other sources. Perhaps this is not one of the wikidata things though.

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Check those entries in wikidata, perhaps whoever entered it there got it wrong

I don't see why -- omdb does not parse data from wikidata, because I'm doing that in parallel and the results are different.

for example, wikidata reports the identifiers correctly for Tenet: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63985561

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piramiday commented 4 years ago

@omdbapi thanks for the reply. I don't understand how the process works, though. 1) are you maintaining your own database? can i find it somewhere? is it really open as in Omdb? 2) is there a way for users to contribute? e.g.: I know how to contribute to wikidata. 3) how is it possible that your algorithm connects unnamed movies from IMDb to RT?