I ask this because Thor for example is in the Thor collection, but it also has a Keyword of “Marvel Cinematic Universe” so at the moment I would have to create a second Collection and add all the films in manually to be able to see which films I have and do not have. If the TMDB Keywords are imported and there is a way to search for them or filter on them, then I would be able to find all MCU films in one go, without having to do any leg work keeping my database up to date manually, which is a bit pointless if the data already exists in another system.
If you switch to TheMovieDatabase as your primary agent and tick the check box ‘Use collection info from The Movie Database’ you should get them.
(ignore the red marker in this screen shot)
But beware: there are a lot of wacky collections on TMDB!
I already have that on, my point is that Thor on TMDB is only in a collection of Thor and not MCU, but it does have a Keyword of MCU in TMDB. Same for Captain America etc.
I was going to create a new feature suggestion to import “keywords” as a new category under tags, when I found this older similar request. I didn’t realize the “use collection info from TheMovieDB” in settings may do that.
However, I’d suggest that there is still a use for importing keywords separately from “collections”. I use collections to relate similar related movies and “bundled” dvd sets (like a 50 movie pack). If what you’ve said means that all of a sudden there would be dozens of “collections” created from the keywords section of TheMovieDB, I would dislike having those all mixed with my own created collections, especially because of the “wacky collections” problem you mentioned. I was hoping to have it filterable just like “Genre”, “Actor”, “Director”… Again, the unrestricted format for keywords on that site would probably end up with a very large filter list, but it’s no worse than filtering by “Actor” is now.
It would be nice to ask plex to return a list of “Easter”, “Christmas”, “Romance”, … based on keywords that others have taken the time to associate with movies.
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