You're not getting lazy, aren't you?

I love this plugin and use it all the time... I have one suggestion though, if it could be implemented into it:

I always parse art credits with crew, but after parsing I always delete every art credit after costume design (normally starting from make-up credits) before pasting them into the profile, because I am not particularly interested in the rest of them, and it will help my database to be remain little less bloated.

Only after I have removed those (to me) unnecessary art credits I click on "Get Birth Years".

What I would like see implemented, if at all reasonable, is that those crew members that are removed from the results window after parsing, would not be entered into local cache. These days I get often false alarms ("you have person N.N. in your cache with and without birth year" or something to that effect) and when I check this N.N. I notice I only have one of that name in my database, because he/she was credited with some of the art credits that I didn't include when parsing the information with your plugin. The credit is in the plugin's cache, but not in my database.

So if it would be possible to prevent the names, removed from the results window after parsing, to be included in the cache (only if they are not already there from earlier parsings, of course) that would make this superb plugin even more superb

Thanks for the explanation, I understand the point.

And big thanks for the tip about transformation.xml! I hadn't checked that out at all before, but removing those unwanted credit types there from the subcategories does indeed exactly what I need.

Uncredited crew is never parsed since there is no Uncredited flags for crew in DVDP.

Pretty big jump in the version numer. So whats new? The version hints are for 1.9.1.0, at least in the update zip.

Hi Karlsten, have you heard of IMDbPy?  It gives you direct access of IMDb's database, so you don't have to use HTML-parsing, thus increasing reliability and performance.  It accesses IMDB's database with Python scripts.  It accepts text files for input and output, so you can make it work in any programming environment.

Also, have you considered adding BATCH-processing in your "Cast & Crew 2" plugin?  Or some kind of automation so we don't have to process cast, crew, and TV seasons separately?  It's nice that your plugin saves us time in entering cast & crew, and this long thread shows this is a highly desirable feature.  But if you have hundreds of titles, it is still time-consuming to do it title by title, with cast, crew, TV seasons done separately.  I understand that the user has to manually paste the data to DVD Profiler every time, so perhaps batch-processing is impossible.  Is there some possibility for your plugin to be able to automatically put the data into DVD Profiler's database without the user having to paste it?

Actually I think somekind of auto-function could be really handy. Not for parsing profiles but for searching changed (fake) BYs.

I'm getting more and more split entrys again. Thats because BYs are added or pages are merged at the imdb. But I often don't have the time or the patience to parse all profiles with the check for BY if it was previously empty option. (Or whatever it is called in the english version).

I probably would need an option for CCE2 NOT to scan my whole local cache because it became way to big to finish even in a week I guess. So something like: 'check local cache from percent X to percent Y for changed BYs' would be really nice.

Just out of curiosity: You have a private version of CCE2?

Did you download my code and adjust it for your needs?

One of the things that still can happen with CCE2 is when the same actor has two different Ids because no one knew they were the same person.

And then at a later time, these Ids get merged and calling the page with one Id will be forwarded into the other.

But with fake BYs you already have two different BYs in your local DB and I'm not sure I can detect that.

That's why there is the CheckForDuplicates tool where you can at least check manually if two people are actually the same.