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[SOLVED] Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 7:15 pm
by RextheC
First of all. Hello to everybody. New here, but not in using xbmc4xbox.
Thx so much to the people who support the project
The problem is:
A few days ago, the tmdb scraper works perfect. But now it scrapes no posters and fanart by using the tmdb or imdb scraper. Movie Info files are shown and were downloaded nice.
I can see the Thumbnail Icons when I go to "load Posters" or "load Fanart", but it doesnt show the "real" images (only the many Icons) which seems available on tmdb. Bnd when downloding one, nothing happens or shown.
I am not sure where I have to put the log file, but here it is:
http://xbmclogs.com/pal5jgoud
hope anyone can help me. I have no idea what else I can do.
Greetz from Germany
Re: video scraper poster and fanart
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 10:51 pm
by RextheC
Would really like to know if there is anyone who could confirm that problem. TVDB scraper works fine.
I have searched all the places i know to get the answer, but without luck. If someone need more info, i will like to do almost

everything. Guess this is the last chance here to solve that.
Same problem my brother has, since some days/week...
Network issues

think i can exclude.
Thanks Dan Dar3 for switching my log into the right place. I have read the forum rules, but didnt know how to upload my log there. Now I knows.
edit
I use xbmc4xbox 3.5
Re: video scraper poster and fanart
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:44 am
by Dan Dar3
It's fine, can you turn debugging on first, restart and then scape one entry that has a problem, then upload the log file:
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewt ... p?f=6&t=65
We can see the version from the log file (up at the top), we can't see much about the entry that is scraping cause it's not a debug log.
Re: video scraper poster and fanart
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:29 pm
by RextheC
Ahgrr... I am so stupid... totally forgot to turn on debugging mode

sry.
So here is the debug log now:
http://www.xbmclogs.com/p9gnouptl
Thx again for help. Hope I have paste the log file by the right way

Re: video scraper poster and fanart
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:57 am
by NOTTHESAME
I restarted xbmc4xbox 3.5, with the left and right thumbsticks I couldn't get a trainer to work with a game so it didn't work for to erase programs in database then worked, anyways, once I tired to rescan my movies it works fine but no covers or fanart are presented.
heres my debug report :
http://pastebin.com/iE9v9Eif
thanks guys
Re: video scraper poster and fanart
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:39 am
by Dom DXecutioner
I can confirm the same issue myself; after a little research, found that tmdb has changed their image base url as mentioned at the following link :
https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/54ea65b ... 68240028d1
I can speculate that our scraper needs a little changing; looking at kodi's scraper, they have a function
ParseTMDBBaseImageURL which we don't have...
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<ParseTMDBBaseImageURL clearbuffers="no" dest="4">
<RegExp input="$$5" output="<details>$$20</details>" dest="4">
<RegExp input="$$1" output="\1" dest="20">
<expression>"images":\{"base_url":"([^"]*)"</expression>
</RegExp>
<expression noclean="1" />
</RegExp>
</ParseTMDBBaseImageURL>
I tried looking at ours, and although I did find the area where we handle the thumbs and fanart; I must admit, I couldn't find a way to fix it; hate regex...
Re: video scraper poster and fanart
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:45 am
by Dom DXecutioner
Sooo...
As it turns out, the fix was easier than expected, and - I think - I have little more understanding on how the scraper works; not enough to do anything exciting or permanent but enough to get this puppy fixed for now.
You will need to download the
tmdb.zip file below, extract the tmdb.xml, go to:
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system-->scrapers-->video-->common
and replace it...
Btw, it was just a matter of replacing the hard-coded base url:
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http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/
with
I have tested it a few times now, and all seems to be ok; though a more permanent fix is required! Tested and let me know what happens... also, I've edited the title of the post to something more meaningful.
Re: TMDB Scraper: Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:00 pm
by RextheC
Good to know that i am not the only one with this issue, and also good to know the fantastic support here in the forum for xbmc4xbox.
The fix with the tmdb scraper sounds good, will give that a try today. Thanks Dom DXecutioner, hope it works for me, will post it here when I have tried it.
I assumed too, that something has changed on tmdb with the images... size or something else. But on imdb its the same prob at the same time?!
Have tried to replace the scraper xml with another one from an older xbmc4xbox release and also tried something with kodi scrapers..., but had no luck.
Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:07 pm
by Dom DXecutioner
Give it a try and let us know... As for the IMDB scraper, I don't use it nor have an interest in it; hopefully someone else will be able to assist.
Keep in mind that you cannot simply replace scrapers from Kodi and expect them to work; they're not the same.
Re: Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:54 pm
by RextheC
What should i say... it works !!!!!

yippi
I am really thankful on that support, and really happy that the tmdb scraper fix works. Now me, my brother and friends can going on with filling our DB the easiest way without Media Companion or something else.
Big, big thanks to Dom DXecutioner for immediately help. Just great, thank you.

Re: Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 12:22 am
by Dom DXecutioner
You're welcome; glad it works
Re: [SOLVED] Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:52 pm
by Xzawier1777
Thank you guys for raising the TVDB issue (and giving the solution), I couldn't figure it out by myself.
Now it works just fine !!
Re: [SOLVED] Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 8:56 am
by xman
3 thumbs to the guy that fixes both IMdbB and TMdB scrapers in the build itself. Fools like me with 10, 20, 30 machines are getting tired of fixing the build's scrapers as we update the machines.

. Hope someone takes up this challenge. Come on guys, I'm good with a soldering iron, not cutting and pasting on computer screens. I'd rather burn my finger bad with my soldering iron than go through the "tooth pulling" involved in software changes. You'll turn me into a software guy instead of a hardware guy if I keep this up.

Re: [SOLVED] Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:07 am
by Dom DXecutioner
Apologies; i don't like IMDB; i did fix TMDB!
Re: [SOLVED] Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 10:09 am
by xman
So if I download the latest build, the TMdB scraper in it will work?.
[SOLVED] Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 12:56 pm
by Dom DXecutioner
No! I did post a link with the fixed xml a couple of posts ago and with instructions.
Re: [SOLVED] Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 12:58 pm
by xman
OK, two thumbs who ever gets it in the build.
Re: [SOLVED] Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 1:05 pm
by Dom DXecutioner
BuZz isn't working with xbmc at the moment and I don't feel like submitting a patch for something that may take a while to get done.
Any person that has this issue can download the file and replace it and things will work just fine.
Re: [SOLVED] Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 1:27 pm
by xman
Dom DXecutioner wrote:BuZz isn't working with xbmc at the moment and I don't feel like submitting a patch for something that may take a while to get done.
Any person that has this issue can download the file and replace it and things will work just fine.
Cool, I understand. Can you send a copy of the whole scrapers folder that is working and I'll see what i can do?.
Re: [SOLVED] Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 1:29 pm
by Dom DXecutioner
Please see post #7