IMDB does not work from November 28, 2012

Bug #1084608 reported by Steven Stoner
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Griffith
Fix Committed
Medium
Michael

Bug Description

IMDB has changed their search screen from 28 November 2012 and it has stopped all three IMDB plugins from working. They will not return any data at all. Is someone looking at fixing this???? Here is their announcement:

Recent changes
As of 28 November 2012 we have launched a new and improved version of our search results page. The following frequently asked questions cover the changes between the old and new search results page.

which is found on this page:
http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?find&ref_=fn_hlp

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Michael (mikej06) wrote :
Changed in griffith:
assignee: nobody → Michael (mikej06)
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → 0.13.1
status: New → Fix Committed
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Patricia (crazypat63) wrote :

This problem affected me too since a couple of days back.
With these new plugins fortunately everything's working OK again.
Thanks! I just love this software. Oh, and Seasons Greetings! :)

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Steven Stoner (stoner) wrote :

Yes, this works excellent and thanks so very much for the prompt reply. Cheers and have e greast holiday season everyone!!

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UnkleKev (kevinjroyal) wrote :

Hi,

Could some kind soul please explain how I can make use of these plug-ins to fix the fact that I can no longer import film information from imdb?

Thank you.

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Michael (mikej06) wrote :

Short explanation how to update the plugins:
* use the "Save as" function of your browser to save the files which you can get with the links above
* replace the old version of the files of your existing installation with the new ones

Sorry, Griffith has no auto update function. The manual steps are necessary.

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Michael (mikej06) wrote :

Short explanation how to update the plugins:

* use the "Save as" function of your browser to save the files with the following links:

http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/griffith/trunk/lib/plugins/movie/PluginMovieIMDB.py
http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/griffith/trunk/lib/plugins/movie/PluginMovieIMDB-it.py
http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/griffith/trunk/lib/plugins/movie/PluginMovieIMDB-es.py
http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/griffith/trunk/lib/plugins/movie/PluginMovieIMDB-de.py

* replace the old version of the files of your existing installation with the new ones

Sorry, Griffith has no auto update function. The manual steps are necessary.

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Phil Newton (bigphil30uk) wrote :

Cannot get this to work.
What do I save the file type as ? I don't get the option to save as a .py file. Only .txt

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Michael (mikej06) wrote :

For all windows users I made a nightly build from the current sources.
You can download it in a few minutes from here:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2838803/Griffith/griffith-0.13.1-rev1631-svn-win32.exe

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tellapu (tellapu) wrote :

Great it works! Thanks a lot!
The path for the plugins in Ubuntu 12.04 is:
/usr/share/griffith/lib/plugins/movie

Blessed Christmas!

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Sweet Andy (sweetandylicious) wrote :

Thanks Michael for the 1631 revision for us Windows users.

Andy

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Fernando Cuevas (fernando-cuevas) wrote :

I used the updated plugins in Ubuntu 12.10 and it's working. Thank you Michael.

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Mauro (jasmines) wrote :

rev 1646 not working on Raring 13.04 and griffith 0.13
any suggestions?

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Bradley Matthews (liv4him60) wrote :

I'm an extreme newbie. I am having the same problem that is being discussed here. I followed the instructions for replacing the plugins, but I could neither delete the old from the folder, nor write the new into the folder. I have 0.13, and the plugins already there seem to be the same as the downloaded ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Michael (mikej06) wrote :

Is you operating system windows?
If so you should use the nightly build:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2838803/Griffith/griffith-0.13.1-rev1644-svn-win32.exe

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Bradley Matthews (liv4him60) wrote :

Thanks, I'm sorry Mike, currantly using latest version of Kubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-53. I hope this helps.

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Michael (mikej06) wrote :

I think you have to less rights on the file and the folder. You have to use a root account for the replacing step.

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Pedro Costa (pedrocelestino) wrote :

Rev 1644 only makes available partial data from IMDB. No director's names, or actors, sinopsys... Anyone for help? Thanks, Pedro

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Michael (mikej06) wrote :
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