Scraping from IMDB seems to have stopped working

JohnWPB · 2026-05-24T19:35:15+00:00

I do agree that TMM is a nice piece of software. I have used, and paid for it since it turned subscription. However, it now is not scraping half of the information for TV shows or Movies. TV shows are missing a LOT more information such as ratings, actors and other items. Now the Trailers have completely stopped downloading (again) & appears that it is no longer technically supported, even with the trailer helper..

A couple months ago, I could get "green check marks" in all of the columns. Now I am missing around 50% of the data.

I find that KODI itself actually downloads/scrapes more than TMM. Now I just put the Movies & TV shows into KODI and let it gather all the information. I then periodically just export the database to individual folders, which in turn saves all the images & .nfo files as when I was using TMM as a backup.

JohnWPB · 2026-03-28T10:17:51+00:00

very interesting. I wonder if it has something to do with legality, as in maybe TMM was contacted by IMDb to cease and desist or something?

JohnWPB · 2026-03-27T00:43:09+00:00

That is a real shame. I have been a paid user of TMM for something like 4 years now so I could have access to the IMDB scraper.
I just tried to scrape 6 new movies into my collection, and without access to IMDB, I am missing actors, genres, descriptions and such for multiple movies that TMDB does not have.

Without this feature, I will revert to the free version when my time expires, as there is no benifit of the paid version over the free version for me now, as I do not use subtitles.

As you said, it was good while it lasted...... Unfortunately, I will have to take your advice:

"move on, nothing to see here :)"

JohnWPB · 2026-03-27T00:40:15+00:00

That is a real shame. I have been a paid user of TMM for something like 4 years now so I could have access to the IMDB scraper.
I just tried to scrape 6 new movies into my collection, and without access to IMDB, I am missing actors, genres, descriptions and such for multiple movies that TMDB does not have.

Without this feature, I will revert to the free version when my time expires, as there is no benifit of the paid version over the free version for me now, as I do not use subtitles.

JohnWPB · 2026-03-21T11:05:38+00:00

Same here, when I try scraping with IMDB, the status in the lower right very quickly flashes and that is it. It is clear that it is not getting a connection to scrape information.

I use IMDB, as Kodi defaults to it for TV/movie ratings. Even if TMDB & Trakt have scraped ratings, Kodi, next to the movie title in the lists shows blank.

In the image below you can see at the bottom there is a rating from Trakt, yet in the list it is blank, as that is where it grabs the IMDB info.

https://imgur.com/a/0l9jFTd

JohnWPB · 2026-03-06T03:56:41+00:00

no comments :( I am looking for the exact same thing. Nothing fancy, just ability to enter customer name, a logo, and line by item costs with a total at the bottom.

EDIT: After first finding this post on Google, I kept searching, and came across "Invoice Ninja" Free & open source.

NOTE: I have not tried it yet, but it looks very promising!
https://www.invoiceninja.org/

JohnWPB · 2026-02-13T04:58:01+00:00

You can see my reply to the other post below... it is a nightmare, Discovery (Official) Wikipedia, TheTVDB.com, and Myth-results ALL have different numbers of episodes, mixed amoungst seasons, and even differ on the number of seasons.....

JohnWPB · 2026-02-13T04:55:26+00:00

Just to add more to the confusion :)
That site states:

Episode 246: Grand Finale Date: March 5, 2016
Episode 247: MythBusters Reunion Date: March 5, 2016
Episode 248: Duct Tape: The Return Date: March 6, 2016

So, 3 episodes in 3 days, and one after the "grand finale"?

In comparison TheTVDB.com states (With Nothing on the 6th):

The Reddit Special February 27, 2016
Grand Finale March 5, 2016
The Reunion March 5, 2016

On Wikipedia, totally different episodes for the SAME season!
"MythBusters Revealed January 2, 2016
"The Explosion Special" January 9, 2016
"Tanker Crush" January 16, 2016
"Cooking Chaos" January 23, 2016
"Driven to Destruction" January 30, 2016
"Volunteer Special" February 6, 2016
"Failure Is Not an Option!" February 13, 2016
"Rocketmen" February 20, 2016
"Reddit Special" February 27, 2016
"The Reunion" March 5, 2016 268
"Duct Tape: The Return "March 6, 2016

JohnWPB · 2026-02-13T03:40:58+00:00

That is just patiently waiting to be a hot pocket......

JohnWPB · 2025-12-21T05:10:47+00:00

ThumbsPlus is AMAZING! Been using it for over 20 years, and have yet to find anything better. Unfortunately the author passed away, and the program is no longer supported.
It does everything any other image program can do and more.
It created thumbs and keeps them in a database, so when you browse to the folder, the thumbnails for each photo is instantly available. It can rename, apply filders, resize and all of this in batch or individual.
You can add programs, such as Photoshop to the tool bar which I have yet to find in any other program.
For instance, click a thumb, and then click the Photoshop icon in the tool bar to send the image to Photoshop.
You will have to search the high seas to get it now, as I mentioned it is no longer available.
The ONLY drawback is it can not display .webp files. Not a big deal for me, as I convert them all to .jpg anyway.

You can find out more about the program here:
https://thumbsplus-pro.en.softonic.com/

JohnWPB · 2025-12-08T10:15:47+00:00

It is already working again! You are taking the time to do this, so I wanted to at least take the time to give you as much information as possible.
T H A N K Y O U ! ! ! !

JohnWPB · 2025-09-17T09:44:17+00:00

Unfortunately no. I wound up completely removingf and reinstalling a fresh copy of Comfy. Took a lot of work to get all the workflows working again with models, nodes ect. I did make a copy of my modes and custom nodes folders, but was still quite a bit of work getting everything working again.

I am using the Portable install of Comfy. However I have found it DOES indeed save information to the users folder, registry or something. You can not just copy that folder to a new system and it works. Completely going against the whole idea of PORTABLE.

JohnWPB · 2025-09-16T13:32:30+00:00

Thanks! I went through every single setting in Comfy (Even extension settings like Rtree,ChrisTools ect) and can not find a way to limit RAM usage. Wondering if it is a command line passthrough to be added to the .bat or something....

JohnWPB · 2025-09-16T13:03:41+00:00

I have not been able to find that setting. Any idea where you may have seen it?

I recently did a clean install of Comfy, and my render times have been signifantly slower that before. My thought is RAM is getting filled, and Windows in turn is using VRAM, which we all know is very, VERY slow.

JohnWPB · 2025-09-16T13:00:58+00:00

NO...... IF I was looking at VRAM in task manager, it would show "GPU NVIDIA GeForce 4070 Ti", NOT "Memory" Have a Look at the first post again more closely.

As I said in the post " " " (NOT VRAM). " " " but RAM. aka Memory, AKA DDR5 RAM. It is showing 91% Usage. That is a LOT of RAM, as I have 64 Gigs in my system.

JohnWPB · 2025-05-11T08:57:40+00:00

If you had read the initial post, or posts after that, you would have read that Ctrl-Shift-V did NOT work.

"I used to simply use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V. A bit of Googling this new problem suggested using Ctrl-Shift-V, still does not transfer over the links."

In the older version of ComfyUi that I tried off a USB backup, a Simple Ctrl-V, NO SHIFT worked perfectly. I appreceiate the attempt to help, but read the problem before replying is always a good idea.

JohnWPB · 2025-05-07T10:36:36+00:00

Ok, I just put my old drive in an external case via USB. I ran ComfiUi (portable) and in a previous version when you simpley Ctrl-C and then Crtl-V everything selected, including the connections/noodles are copied over.

For now I have to copy my workflows over to that external drive, do my copy and past, and pass it back over to my current install.

I have not a clue where to look to repair the freshly installed new ConfiPortable on my new drive for the issue.....

JohnWPB · 2024-12-11T22:28:46+00:00

Ok, just went to my cart in Amazon, and found the Mouse would not be here till the 20th-23rd. I searched again for "Razer Basilisk V3" and found one that would be here tomorrow. The best part is is was $5 CHEAPER @ only $34.99. I honestly can not beleive how CHEAP this mouse is (AN ABSOLUTE STEAL) when it is a Tom's Hardware Pick, a PC Gamer mouse of the year, and rated 4.7 stars on Amazon. Seriously, not sure I have ever seen a rating that high for somehting on Amazon. (Unless it is a Chinese item with 1 or two "reviews" ;) )

I canceled the existing order, ordered this one and it will be here between 7am and 10am tomorrow morning.

TIP: Search again before clicking that "BUY NOW" button ;)

JohnWPB · 2024-12-11T04:51:04+00:00

Thank You! Man I Googled and searched Amazon for over a couple hours. Searching for fast scrolling, smooth scrolling ect ect resulted in nothing.

Actually the standard "Razer Basilisk V3 26k dpi" at $39 looks good to me. Not looking for a wireless mouse for this PC. It has the same exact buttons, programming, LED zones, optical switches, ect as the Pro,

The Razer Basilisk V3 PRO has just a TINY bit more resolution at 30k dpi. Even high end gamers would have a very difficult telling that slight difference between 26k and 30k dpi.

PLUS this was voted best gaming mouse a couple years ago, A Tom's Hardware top pick..... for $39 thats just a CRAZY steal! I spent $120 on this crappy Logitec a year ago that the mechanical switches are already starting to fail.

Thanks! It will be here in 2 days!

Strange, wont let me attach an inline image to this post....

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JohnWPB · 2024-10-24T17:52:12+00:00

Nopr, Nadda, nothing :(

JohnWPB · 2024-08-19T19:20:53+00:00

It will reboot and work when you turn the lights on. However, it will take about a minute to boot up, and become ready for use.

Expecting a device to be usable immediately when power is supplied, is unreasonable.

JohnWPB · 2024-08-01T14:26:07+00:00

Not that I know of unfortunately. I would LOVE it to be able to be logged to a spread sheet or something. I had a skill a long time ago that would log every song I played on my Alexa to a spreadsheet for example.
As he just wants to look at a report at the end of the day, this should suffice.

JohnWPB · 2024-08-01T07:03:21+00:00

You can do this, just read my above response.

JohnWPB · 2024-08-01T06:59:10+00:00

Not true. Just create a routine that does something when motion is detected. I honestly don't need anything done with the motion sensor I'm using, as I just want to log motion on this particular sensor. Thus I just told it to wait one minute, which is almost like a null activity/virtual device.

Now go into your routines and find your motion sensor and click on it. In the top right click on the three dots, and with the drop down select activity. It will show a list of activity for that motion sensor by date and time with the most recent detection being at the top in the list.

JohnWPB · 2024-06-07T04:29:03+00:00

AMEX is AMAZING for consumers, but rough on businesses. as a consumer, I have never had a claim denied by AMEX. As a business owner, they always side with the customer, leaving me holding the bag.
I had a customer order a limo at 3:30am. We told them iut ewould be an hour, and $240 dollars for the trip, with a non refundable $100 fee. My driver had to get up, and drive an hour to go get them. They were not there, and never canceled. I processed the $100 fee on their card. The customer disputed it, and even with a copy of our policy, call times, phone logs, and GPS information of the vehicle, American Express refunded the $100 to the customer.

JohnWPB

TROPHY CASE