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Imdb is broken

Open Vault108 opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

Originally reported by MPenguin in #gonzobot It appears that anything scraped in 2021 is not scraping properly:

https://imdb-scraper.herokuapp.com/search?q=Bobs+Burgers&limit=1 :

{
	"success": true,
	"result": [{
		"id": "tt1561755",
		"title": "",
		"year": "2011",
		"genres": [],
		"plot": "",
		"runtime": "",
		"rating": "unrated",
		"votes": "0",
		"directors": [],
		"writers": [],
		"stars": [],
		"retrieved": "2021-08-23T07:14:37.629Z"
	}]
}
https://imdb-scraper.herokuapp.com/search?q=Game+of+Thrones&limit=1
{
	"success": true,
	"result": [{
		"id": "tt0944947",
		"title": "Game of Thrones",
		"year": "2011",
		"genres": [],
		"plot": "Nine noble families fight for control over the mythical lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for thousands of years.",
		"runtime": "57min",
		"rating": "9.4",
		"votes": "1614138",
		"photoUrl": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjA5NzA5NjMwNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjg2OTk2NzM@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg",
		"directors": [],
		"writers": [],
		"stars": [],
		"retrieved": "2019-12-17T16:51:02.139Z"
	}]
}

could be possible to rewrite with: https://github.com/alberanid/imdbpy @IlGnome wanna help me take a stab?

Vault108 avatar Aug 23 '21 07:08 Vault108

Might be related to #24 @flotwig can you take a look at your scraper?

linuxdaemon avatar Aug 30 '21 22:08 linuxdaemon

Might be related to #24 @flotwig can you take a look at your scraper?

I also forked his repo, and ran my own instance and was getting the same issues. thus leading me to think its an IMDB issue.

Vault108 avatar Aug 31 '21 02:08 Vault108

@Vault108 Any plans to port this to the other API you mentioned?

linuxdaemon avatar Apr 23 '23 22:04 linuxdaemon

At the moment with the way work is no.

Vault108 avatar Apr 24 '23 04:04 Vault108