Scraper MovieMaze update and question

[MightyDuck]

Hi XBMC4XBOX fans,

Since the scraper issues started, I tried several scrapers. Unfortunately, most of them are having issues.

Since I speak English, Dutch and German, I tried to get at least 1 up and running while displaying the movieposter.

Result: I got MovieMaze up and running again (it didn't work on the 3.3.2 installation).

All credits go to the orginal writer of the scraper, since all I did was having a look at the original which runs fine on the PC and made some adjustments based on that code. Only added 1 thing: you can choose whether you want the original name or the german name to be listed in your library.

1 question left: if I want to use the movieposter as fanart, how do you do that in the xml output? (<details>.... </details> listing)..

[skatulskijean]

Hi XBMC4XBOX fans,

Since the scraper issues started, I tried several scrapers. Unfortunately, most of them are having issues.

Since I speak English, Dutch and German, I tried to get at least 1 up and running while displaying the movieposter.

Result: I got MovieMaze up and running again (it didn't work on the 3.3.2 installation).

All credits go to the orginal writer of the scraper, since all I did was having a look at the original which runs fine on the PC and made some adjustments based on that code. Only added 1 thing: you can choose whether you want the original name or the german name to be listed in your library.

1 question left: if I want to use the movieposter as fanart, how do you do that in the xml output? (<details>.... </details> listing)..

Thanks for this.
What you think have you time to look on the other scrappers?

Regards Jan

[MightyDuck]

Hi Jan,

Obviously there some scrapers which I would like to get up and running.

However: I noticed it took me a lot of time just to understand how they work, and then trying to analyse what is going wrong. I have 2 issues:
- the last time I did some programming is about 20 years ago. The beatiful time one wrote his code in assemby or plain C. After this I changed my role from projectmanager to IT manager at the moment. Conclusion: I miss a lot I noticed. (I have no basic training in Reg Exp for example)
- I have married also in the meantime, and the wife has been complaining already.

Anyway: I will have a look at some of the others, when I get another one up and running, I will (offcourse) post it here.

Issue I have: I haven't figured out how XBMC4XBOX handles the image loading. I think it is throught the definition of a function. But changing it didn't give me the effect I wanted (the scraper found some pictures but it wasn't able to download them: the screen in which you can select them, showed me that there were several images found, but all of them were filled with the default picture... very confusing).

What could help me: do you know (or anyone else) a good test application (I tried several but none of them is working as expected)?

Best regards.

By the way: all credits to the writer of the PC version!!

[Xzawier1777]

Yeah !
I tried it and it seems to work just fine !

Thank you MightyDuck !!

[Spaceman]

This works great but how do I get it to output synopsis in English?
Do I just edit this line to UK?
<scraper framework="1.1" date="2013-10-06" name="MovieMaze" content="movies" thumb="moviemaze.jpg" language="de">

[BuZz]

Please open a ticket on the bugtracker and provide diffs so it can be added to the main release . Many Thanks

See this post for details

http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewt ... 224#p14224

[petewxm]

Hi XBMC4XBOX fans,

Since the scraper issues started, I tried several scrapers. Unfortunately, most of them are having issues.

Since I speak English, Dutch and German, I tried to get at least 1 up and running while displaying the movieposter.

Result: I got MovieMaze up and running again (it didn't work on the 3.3.2 installation).

All credits go to the orginal writer of the scraper, since all I did was having a look at the original which runs fine on the PC and made some adjustments based on that code. Only added 1 thing: you can choose whether you want the original name or the german name to be listed in your library.

1 question left: if I want to use the movieposter as fanart, how do you do that in the xml output? (<details>.... </details> listing)..

Hi
Where do you put the files, from the download? eg which directory.

Thanks

Pete

[MightyDuck]

Installation is quite easy:

download the zip and jpg, unzip (you get a moviemaze.xml) and put the xml and jpg in the directory: ../system/scrapers/movie/ (not sure if the names 'scrapers' and 'movie' are correct since I am not at home and can't login to xbmc, but it should be very similar). You will find the old version and just replace it.


@spaceman: I didn't try to change it to 'uk'. I think that - if it should work at all - this would be the place. However: I doubt it, it scrapes the website, and that only delivers the plot / synopsis in German... I haven't seen an option to change it to English. If anyone knows, please let me know, I would give it a try.

@ BuZz: you are right, I didn't do that. As soon as I have some sparetime, I will raise the ticket, etc. Sorry for that.