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Better movie match while scraping
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I have a lot of movies with weird filenames which MediaElch poorly recognize. So I started thinking how it can be improved.
Describe the solution you'd like The easiest solution is consider runtime of the movie file: if length of movie is 123 minutes and list of IMDB's result contains only one movie with this runtime MediaElch will choose this movie. There are lot of options for user to tweak:
- Set difference in how much runtime can differ +- 2 minutes or +-5%
- Filter or not results with different runtime Some movies has different cuts with different runtime but IMDB has info about it.
Describe alternatives you've considered Some other methods that can help improve recognition of films:
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Online search filename of movie. This may sound stupid and inefficient but I was really surprise how well it works, we just need to choose a good search engine. While
movie_filename_without_.extenstion site:imdb.com
orsite:themoviedb.org
query in Google gives 0 results, Bing and Yahoo finds random movies, first link in DuckDuckGo and Yandex is exactly the one I wanted. - Use movie title from metadata. When file has this value it often contains "searchable" name of movie. And better use this one instead of filename.