Rotten Tomatoes Agent [request filled]

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*** The Rotten Tomatoes metadata agent is available through the Channel Directory ***

 

Hi all,

Now that we can't have IMDB anymore, I was just wondering if anyone could step up and make a Rotten Tomatoes agent that would bring movie ratings to us Plex/Nine lovers. TheMovieDB's movies rating, in my opinion, is not as good as IMDB/Rotten Tomatoes, most titles (except for really major ones) don't have any ratings at all, which is quite disappointing. I noticed that there is a Rotten Tomatoes bundle in my Plugins folder but it doesn't seem to be working at all, hopefully someone with the skills out there can turn it into something useful smile.gif

Cheers

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I hope this becomes a possibility :slight_smile:

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there already is a agent for rotten tomatoes, i think it’s just broken, it probably needs to be updated to work with the new freebase primary agent instead of imdb. the github repo for it is here: http://github.com/plexinc-agents/RottenTomatoes.bundle

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Same here, I would love a Rotten Tomatoes agent for my movies! :smiley: Any updates on deploying this agent to an upcoming update of Plex?

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You don't need an update of Plex for a new metadata agent!

See post below for updated version.

This gets summaries and rating (average critic rating, which is different than the Tomatometer, I learned today. rolleyes.gif )

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Hello Raindancing! Thanks for your RT agent! Got a tip for you so your agent doesn’t have to do its own search on movietitle. Since your agent is a secondary agent for Freebase/IMDB, the IMDB id is already known (media.primary_metadata.id). Strip off the ‘tt’ and use the resulting number for the ‘s’ parameter in:


http://www.rottentomatoes.com/alias?type=imdbid&s=...

Example: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/alias?type=imdbid&s=0118715

Edit:
@Raindancing: changed __init__.py file: http://pastebin.com/uLSiBPHj
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Wow thanks! I will give it a drive around the block :smiley:

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You know, I looked and looked, and couldn't find that Rotten Tomatoes kept imdb ids indexed. I thought that was the whole reason nobody had fixed this yet. Thanks, Sander.
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Hey Sander, could you possibly up the modified agent? I don’t know how to edit bundles and such :slight_smile:

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Updated agent:

Searches rottentomatoes.com by imdb id, as per Sander's suggestion, and also gets genres!
 

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release the HOUNDS!

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It’s working great (the updated one): get’s plot, genre and rating no problem. Thank you SO MUCH!!!

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Oh this is awesome, the Rotten Tomatoes have SO much better Plot summaries.

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Many thanks to Raindancing and Sander1! Happy New Year!



Dumb question. Where do I place this? Not sure which folder, don’t want to screw things up. Thanks again.

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The “.plexapp” extension is a plugin installer. Double-click on it, and it installs the agent in the right place.

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hi guys, have installed this, but clicking update library doesn't rescan or change in metadata, am I doing something wrong? (i have moved the rotten tomato to the top of the scraper list)

Cheers
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You need to shift-click to force a refresh of everything.

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thanks for the quick reply, but shift-click where?
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Sorry-- on the update icon (the little circling arrow) at the bottom right of the media manager window.

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