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Self hosted streaming media server. https://docs.streama-project.com/
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Feature Request: Fetch Image when IMDB link is present #897

Open OCT-Burnz opened 4 years ago

OCT-Burnz commented 4 years ago

Hello, could you add an option to fetch the image/descriptions from imdb when supplying the imdb tag? It seems it really only adds a link to imdb...

zacknawrocki commented 4 years ago

It appears you can currently fetch the images/descriptions automatically without the imdb tag. When you select "Create a New Movie" (or equivalent), in the top right corner of the new window, you should have a choice to add a movie automatically or add a movie manually. Make sure to select the option to have it done automatically (for me it was manual by default). Now you can search for the title through TheMovieDB search bar, and it should fill out everything automatically (and you can add your video file/link or equivalent, as well as a YouTube trailer after). What I mentioned above works on 1.7.3. It appears I do not see this button in the top right hand of 1.8.0 at the moment, however. (Updated below under "Update")

1.7.3

Adding the info automatically

manual_to_automatic

Looking up the movie/show in question

automatic_entry

Update It appears my comment above about 1.8.0 was incorrect. I had setup the beta version to test it out, but never added my TheMovieDB API Key, as I would usually do on the Streama version I personally use.

OCT-Burnz commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the reply. I never signed up at TheMovieDb so i did not have that option. Would be great if the system could just fetch the information with the imdb id though as it doesn't require you to sign up anywhere.

zacknawrocki commented 4 years ago

Oh that's a fair point. The reason the automatic lookup doesn't show up in 1.8.0 for me is because I did not add TheMovieDB in my settings, like I did in 1.7.3 (I have only been testing 1.8.0 out and did not consider that I did not configure it like my default version). I corrected my comment above. For now I will keep using the API Key I registered for.

As for the imdb idea, after some research, it looks like it is something that can be done, however the current TheMovieDB implementation may be preferred. According to this link, "IMDb does officially have a public API called Search Suggestions, but it is undocumented. The Search Suggestions API has a JSON-P format that cannot be customized... You can also try screen scraping the IMDb website for its dataset, but that requires a lot of effort." It would certainly be a neat idea, though.