[DVDFolks] Crew2Profiler

[Doug Wright]

Ralf Buschmann wrote:

>Hi,
>
>first of all thanks to Doug for the most useful DVDFolks tool and for
>hosting this list.
>
>I have written the Crew2Profiler utility that will import crew members
>from DVDFolks into DVD Profiler. As long as the copy & paste
>functionality isn't available for crew in Profiler, I hope this will
>make the life of other guys lazy like me a little easier :-) Enjoy and
>of course, let me know how it goes. I tested it with about 10 titles so
>far without problems. Below is the ReadMe.
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>            Crew2Profiler
>            =============
>
>  Purpose: An utility for importing crew members from Doug's awesome
>           DVDFolks tool into DVD Profiler.
>   Author: Ralf Buschmann <caranthir2 at gmx.de>
> Download: http://home.arcor.de/caranthir2/crew2profiler.zip
>  Version: 0.1
>
> Requirements
> ------------
> - Intervocative DVD Profiler v2.3.1
>   http://www.intervocative.com
> - DVDFolks (currently tested with v0.7 Beta)
>   http://www.dougweb.org/dvdpro/dvdfolks/
>
> Usage
> -----
> 1. Run DVDFolks
> 2. Navigate to the IMDB "full cast and crew" page for the desired title
> 3. Click Next
> 4. Select 'Crew' radio button and click Next
> 5. Click Next
> 6. Click Next and verify, click Next to display the XML. You may now
>    close DVDFolks (data is now on the clipboard and Crew2Profiler gets
>    it from there)
> 7. Run DVD Profiler, right-click the desired title and select "Edit",
>    switch to the Credits tab and click "Assign Credits" to open the
>    Assign Credits dialog
> 8. Run Crew2Profiler.exe. The utility now enters crew members into
>    DVD Profiler by simulating user input. Note that mouse and keyboard
>    input will be disabled while Crew2Profiler is running.
>
> Crew2Profiler will handle names not yet in the database (automatically
> adds them) and names already credited for the role. Crew2Profiler will
> never remove existing crew information.
>
> Source
> ------
> Crew2Profiler is written in AutoIt scripting language, see
> http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ for more information. Source code
> is in Crew2profiler.au3
>
> History
> -------
>
> 22.02.2005 v0.1  - first version released
>________________________________________________________________________
>
>--
>Ralf
>
WOW - thanks for this! [goes off v. happy to play with it...]

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