[DVDFolks] [ANNOUNCE] Version 0.6 now available

[Andy Gibson]

Doug

Thanks for the new version, but it is not working for me?

Which page on IMDB is meant to be used for TV Cast. The cast for TV is split
between "Full Cast and Crew" and "Guest Appearances", and to get a complete
cast list both would need to be combined. 

I have tried using both pages but I am getting a script error (attached)
using "Full Cast and Crew", and when I use "Guest Appearances" I get:

DVDFolks was unable to find the desired information on this page. Please try
using the IMDb 'full cast and crew' page, or report a bug if you already
are!
Merged any duplicates from the possible 0
DVDFolks has successfully extracted 1 names from this page and is now ready
for verification.

Although the one name it says it has found does not appear on the next
verification page?

Am I doing something wrong?

Andy



-----Original Message-----
From: DVDFolks-bounces at dougweb.org [mailto:DVDFolks-bounces at dougweb.org] On
Behalf Of Doug Wright
Sent: 17 December 2004 16:30
To: DVDFolks at dougweb.org
Subject: [DVDFolks] [ANNOUNCE] Version 0.6 now available

Changes
---------
The beginnings of TV support. Currently it's the entire cast list or 
nothing, but it'll still be quicker to edit out any extra cast in 
notepad, than add them all manually.
Duplicate matching suitably adjusted for the *many* matches that TV mode 
brings.

I've only tested the above code on a couple of TV shows, but it seems 
robust enough. It is fairly slow though.

A warning regarding TV cast - you will almost certainly end up with 
minor cast having roles like

Female Soldier / Airwoman / Technician #2 / SF Guard / Surveillance SF / 
SF #2
or
Tech #1 / Tech #2 / Tech #3 / Dome Tech / Dome Tech #1

Suitably merging those when beyond the 40 character limit (and maybe 
even before that) is *way* beyond the capabilities of DVDFolks, so 
please just use your common sense, and be nice to those who merged them 
differently when arguing which is right ;-)

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