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XBMC trailer scraping
posted by SteveSTAFFMOD on April 19, 2013 at 7:53 PM
So a question (and if this is more appropriate at XBMC, a link would be helpful.)
When XBMC scrapes trailers -- Youtube -- does it identify the video as a clip, trailer or featurette, and only download the trailer? I would think folks would prefer the trailer scraped to actually be a trailer. I ask because I've been addling lots (LOTS) of trailers and featurettes to movie pages and was wondering how that would affect folks.... and there are a number of folks that have entered movie clips rather than trailers (tagged as clips)
Reply by Travis Bell
on April 30, 2013 at 9:32 AM
Hey Steve,
I'm not actually sure to be honest. We do definitely provide all of the different types through the API but I am not sure which ones they are specifically choosing. Definitely a better question for them.
Reply by Damien Haynes
on October 25, 2013 at 9:44 AM
Hey Travis,
I noticed there is no 'Type' in the API, was this overlooked? e.g.
{"name":"Con Footage","size":"HD","source":"zA92Rw6kNWw"}
That is missing 'Teaser' as defined here: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68726-pacific-rim/edit?active_nav_item=trailers
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 25, 2013 at 11:26 AM
Looks like it was indeed just an oversight. I've created a new ticket for this here and will look into shortly.