This is something that I originally wrote mostly to see if I could, as a learning exercise. I wasn't planning on sharing it, since I never really saw how it could be useful to others-- it doesn't do anything that the default one included with Plex doesn't, and it doesn't do some things that one does (I think).
But it turns out that it actually does do something different-- it searches based on name and year, instead of on the IMDB ID. Apparently, there are some things in themoviedb.org that aren't actually movies and don't have an IMDB ID.
Depending on how you have your stuff organized, you may want use this on a per-item basis. There's some screenshots in the first post of the DVD Order thread that show how to do that.
I have from UFC 52 to the latest (125) and I’m thrilled to finally get this working. There’s still some odd ones, mostly the fight nights and versus events, but thrilled to have this working. It’s been an unusable section since I started using Plex.
I managed to get all events recognised from UFC 1 to current including all Fight Nights and UFC Live events, although some entries are missing posters, banners and/or background art. I had to add a couple of the fight night events to TheMovieDB and filled in what info I could, but unfortunately I couldn't find any posters or banners for them that met the resolution requirements - but they're all there and for that, I am very happy that it's all working!
Hoping you might be able to take a look at this, Raindancing. I’ve been trying to help someone in another thread where it seems this agent should help solve the problem. However, the agent (when using “Match Using” in the Media Manager) is returning the “There was no acceptable match using the specified agent.” error. There is, however, a match available.
Looking at the log file for the plugin, I see it’s requesting the following URL/XML from the API:
Visiting that does return an XML file with the [expected TheMovieDB entry](http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/23392). Is there an issue in the agent with accepting the returned result or might there be some other issue going on?
Responded in the other thread. I think the bad data there for the year is causing the match-score to be below the acceptable threshold, which is why it’s not showing up.
Raindancing> Are you still working on that one ? I’m trying to see if i could fit my i18n modifications in it, however it seems that TMDB search is somewhat broken when use dwith non-ascii chars.
Sorry, I got it wrong all along, now it should be fixed… here is another version of it. I promise not to post any hacked plugins just before getting in a plane for some days in the sunny part of france
Is there anyway i can make this a option in the Tv Shows section? This is why i ask… I believe UFC is a Tv Show, and i’d like to have this Metadata agent in my tv shows category (you know left hand side of Media Manager) since this agent seams to be the only one to actually pick up on UFC titles, i’d like it there or in both places if thats possible, Movies Category and Tv Shows Category