I've tried a few times to import a film list into my watchlist. My watchlist is empty & I don't get any errors. There is 0% imported w/ no error cause. What is my problem?
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Reply by Travis Bell
on February 7, 2018 at 9:18 PM
Hi @mkowales It sounds like the format of the file must not map to the 2 known formats that I've seen from IMDb. Are you able to email me a copy of it so I can see it? You can send it to travis@themoviedb.org.
Reply by mkowales
on February 9, 2018 at 3:13 PM
Travis,
Did you receive my email from yesterday?
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 9, 2018 at 3:31 PM
I did! I'll try to look at it today. Thanks for sending it through.
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 9, 2018 at 6:49 PM
Ok, I figured this out I think. There was 2 issues, first was a different set of line endings (which is fixed). That's why no items were being detected. The second issue is that the 3 fields that I use (IMDb id, rating and date) all have to present as at least an empty string. In your
new_watchlist_import.csv
file, the rating wasn't present.So instead of this:
I would need it to be this:
I'll try to make the importer more resilient and detect this properly but for now that's what will get the items in.
Reply by mkowales
on February 9, 2018 at 7:56 PM
Thank you Travis. You can consider my issue closed.
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 12, 2018 at 12:37 PM
I'm just posting an update here for anyone else that comes across this thread. I have fixed the issues mentioned here in the thread, including the need for the rating field to be present on a watchlist or favourite import. Obviously it's still required for a rating import
I'm marking this as closed.