I would like to specify the imdb, tmdb or tvdb ID to search for a movie or show.
According to this link Plex can handle these IDs to match movies or shows. I would like to see Plex to expand this to the search for a movie or show.
A user would specify one of the following examples to search for a movie or a show:
Movie Avatar:
- imdb-tt0499549
- tmdb-19995
- tvdb-165
Show Game of Thrones:
- imdb-tt0944947
- tmdb-1399
- tvdb-121361
The problem are localized movie or show titles that were not found within Plex always. Specifiying an ID instead could lead to a perfect search result always.
The sources of these IDs can handle that as well. IMDB allows to search for it’s ttxxxxxxxx patterns. TVDB allows to search for IMDBs ttxxxxxxxx patterns and it’s own xxxxxx numbers. Adding that to Plex would make it perfect.
This request is different from various other feature suggestions because my solution would not take a complete URL to a IMDB page or a title. And I’m not talking about matching. I’m talking about searching.
This would show a matching result then instead of the error:
Thanks for listening.
