Sorry I haven’t replied, I have been way to busy. Between renovating my house, work, and a baby on the way, I just don’t have time to look into this. Perhaps another user could take up the project. It’s all on github. Cheers.
No prob ! Many thanks for your help and Congratulations on the Baby!!!!! If somebody else would like to look into it would be awesome!
Blaresteep has contributed an update that seems to fix the covers!
Update via the Unsupported App Store.
Cheers!
Why not as series agent? For example X-art ...its more like series and you can find every thing faster...
Why not as series agent? For example X-art ...its more like series and you can find every thing faster...
I don't really understand what you are asking.
If you are asking why not scrape X-art.com, instead of data18, that is because data18 holds far more content than one series website.
One minute to the next (or so it seems), Data18 stopped working for me ... ("no matches found" on even the simplest searches), whereas Excalibur Films still gives results.
No idea what could be wrong. I did multiple installs/uninstalls, reboots, cache cleans, etc. ... nothing works. I do have to say that I'm non-technical, so please only "simple instructions".
Many thanks for any pointers.
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It could well be that this is a Data18.com database problem and not Plex related - I tried to search directly on their website and I'm not getting any results either. I hope this is it and that they fix it soon. Data18.com is a great metadata agent.
Or it's a sign that I should stop expanding my adult movie collection ;)
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Seems my provider is blocking connections to the Data18.com database. I tried accessing through a VPN connection and now everything works fine.
Problem sorted.
One minute to the next (or so it seems), Data18 stopped working for me ... ("no matches found" on even the simplest searches), whereas Excalibur Films still gives results.
No idea what could be wrong. I did multiple installs/uninstalls, reboots, cache cleans, etc. ... nothing works. I do have to say that I'm non-technical, so please only "simple instructions".
Many thanks for any pointers.
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It could well be that this is a Data18.com database problem and not Plex related - I tried to search directly on their website and I'm not getting any results either. I hope this is it and that they fix it soon. Data18.com is a great metadata agent.
Or it's a sign that I should stop expanding my adult movie collection ;)
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Seems my provider is blocking connections to the Data18.com database. I tried accessing through a VPN connection and now everything works fine.
Problem sorted.
Same here. Searching would work on their Site only by choosing the "connections search"
I had this problem in the past & all I had to do to resolve this is to reset my modem. You probably made too many requests to their database for a single period of time. The problem that I’ve encountered is the following: when I try to search in data18-content for a scene name that include the performed & the serie; I get no results even if they have the same name in data18.com. For example: try searching “Alura Jenson in I Have A Wife”, you’ll find nothing in the agent although it’s present on the website.
@MrParker
I had the same problem. I found out that you need the version Jul 28 of data18-content - which is for some reason I dont know not pulled:
https://github.com/chidychi/Data18-Content.bundle/pull/1/commits
I just copied and pasted the .py file to replace the actual __init__.py You also need the DefaultPrefs.json
Then you can find the scene names, even automatically. There are still some problem, my flenames are not perfect for that, but its a start. I needed some days to figure it out so if you need help just yell.
@fritz276
Thanks for the advice! I tried what you've said & it works like a charm now.
I'll have days where i can't get no files to match. Even going to Data18 and entering the movie name will get no match, yet this is a same movie that it matched 2 weeks ago. It just won't match now after i had to reformat and add the files to my library again.
I've had nothing but problems with this agent. There will be times it'll work and then times like now where nothing will get me a result. Changing the name does nothing and nothing i do will get me a result
I don't really understand what you are asking.
If you are asking why not scrape X-art.com, instead of data18, that is because data18 holds far more content than one series website.
One reason is X-art or any of the other sites actually work where as Data18 will not give any search results even when using the right name.
I can go to Data18 copy the name of any file then try to search for it and get no results.
One reason is X-art or any of the other sites actually work where as Data18 will not give any search results even when using the right name.
I can go to Data18 copy the name of any file then try to search for it and get no results.
The problem with what you suggest is that someone would have to create an Agent solely for X-art.com. That's why we are using data18... because it has metadata for many sites, not just one.
The problem is that data18 has some tricks to block scripts, and their pages are not consistent throughout the site (i.e. one movie may have a different HTML layout than another).
The way the Agent works is to use XPATH to locate HTML patterns and scrape the data from the page. When data18 uses a different layout, you need to program IF-statements for each case, or else you may result in an Agent that doesn't work for every query.
Most trouble people are having has to do with the site - Data18. Unfortunately we don't have much say in what data18 does.
There is another agent on these forums called Excalibur Films. That agent "works better" because the actual website is consistent. Data18 has FAR more content however.
What we need is a better website to scrape from.
Regarding the pull request for Data18-Content that was never merged.... It didn't work for me and that is why I didn't pull it. If you guys are telling me it works better, I will take another look at it and pull it in.
Cheers!
I might assist with a site which works very well. orgazmik.com I use them quite frequently to search for content and it is well sorted. Maybe this is another option? Like usual I am not a coder so if anybody wants to take on and try the best would be cool!
@chidychi - Take a look at the Data18-content submit dating July 28. Its not the newest (unpulled) commit, but that was the only one that works really good for me. I agree that its mostly a problem with the way data18 organise that content (and not with the agent). On the other hand, I dont understand why why most of the big networks (bz,na, bb) have such (stupid?) filenames (except rk, that works like a charm automatically), and why they dont include metadata in their files.
I'm not able to get any scrapers working. The zip-files are extracted, and put in the plugins folder of plex media server, but even after restarting the pc the media server doesn't see the bundles that i've added in that directory?
Am I doing something wrong?
EDIT: Its ok
The data18 meta-data agent works great for most movies and thanks for writing it! However, I have found one thing that it seems to trip up on: movies whose titles contain just a single word. Examples are "Bound (2008)" and "Eden (2007)". They don't match even when trying a custom search for an incorrect match. I'm guessing it's simply some sort of wildcard matching issue. Any ideas?
The data18 meta-data agent works great for most movies and thanks for writing it! However, I have found one thing that it seems to trip up on: movies whose titles contain just a single word. Examples are "Bound (2008)" and "Eden (2007)". They don't match even when trying a custom search for an incorrect match. I'm guessing it's simply some sort of wildcard matching issue. Any ideas?
The problem here is that we are using the basic search from Data18. If you go to the site and search Bound, you will get a lot of results... but the one you are looking for won't be there. if you change the one setting to search for the exact name.... Voila.
Try searching with the year in custom search or in your filename. that might help.
It worked for me when the filenames were "Bound (2008).avi" and "Eden (2007).avi.
If you have these in a folder, the folder name would need to be the same.
This is using the Scanner "Plex Movie Scanner"
Are these agents still working for most? Is it possible to have several of the adult agents scan the same library?
So for instance: Excalibur > Data18 > Data18-content in that order?
As far as I know they are still functioning properly.
My understanding is that you would pick your primary and then manually choose the other agents.
I was thinking about one day writing it into the agent to attempt what you are talking about.
I just never found the time :(.
FileNaming is key to making these agents work
