Historically I get a movie title from IMDB page and use it to name a file (replacing some characters like “:”). Works for me for last 10 years.
So here’s a fine named “Star Wars - Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).mkv”.
Plex Movie Agent is configured to only use IMDB, other agents are turned off completely on that library.
But the title I get is “The Empire Strikes Back”: ...guid="com.plexapp.agents.imdb://tt0080684?lang=en" librarySectionTitle="Movies" librarySectionID="4" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/4" studio="Lucasfilm" type="movie" title="The Empire Strikes Back" titleSort="Empire Strikes Back" contentRating="PG"...
IMDB and Metacritic list it as “Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)”, TheMovieDB and Wikipedia use “The Empire Strikes Back”.
How can I force the agent to use IMDB title? I need it for my pet project (syncing IMDB playlists with Plex) that I hope to release some day.
Why don’t you use the IMDb ID for your project? It’s the natural choice when working with the IMDb. guid="com.plexapp.agents.imdb://tt0080684?lang=en tt0080684 is the IMDB ID, which also appears in the URL when looking at the movie’s page on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/
Thanks, Otto. Sure, IDs are much better option usually.
But is there any way to learn to reconfigure the Agent? I think many users might appreciate that kind of tuning.
my particular case
I am already using IDs. The problem is that guid attribute is not present on XML that comes from %PMS%/library/sections/%library_id%/all, it’s only present in responses from %PMS%/library/metadata/%video_key%, and that means making 1 request per movie, instead of 1 per library. Expected title would give me 2000 times less traffic, and make my plugin architecture very simple.
