Anyone else here having a problem importing data from IMDB?

oxband
I'm trying to import some citations from IMDB and I get the error message. I saw from a previous message that Zotero 2.1.7 was supposed to work with Zotero but it's nt working for me. Anyone else have this problem? Even better, anyone have a solution?
  • adamsmith
    sample URL that's not working? IMDB is working in our tests.
  • oxband
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321372/

    im using the latest version of Zotero standlaone
  • adamsmith
    which browser?
  • oxband
    chrome 18.0.1025.163 (i'm guessing that's the latest chrome since it never asks me to update)
  • oxband
    it's working now. i dont know what you guys did, but thanks!
  • adamsmith
    nothing on our side - we're using IMDBs API, so that was probably down when you tried.
  • scahill
    I'm having the same problems. I get an error message every time I try to import something from IMDB with Firefox 11.0
  • adamsmith
    that sounds like the same API issue - also fails in our tests - if this hasn't cleared up in a day or two I'll take a closer look, but as things are now I'd just assume this will start working again soon.
  • adamsmith
    So this is the same API issue, but it looks like this is a pretty sticky problem atm. Even the site by the provider returns 503 at the moment
    http://www.imdbapi.com/
    but you can see a note on the API issue in the google cache:
    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:m-jGkM39bi8J:www.imdbapi.com/&hl=en&lr=lang_de|lang_en|lang_es&client=ubuntu&gl=us&tbs=lr:lang_1de|lang_1en|lang_1es&prmd=imvns&strip=0

    Since getting the same type of data w/o the API will be somewhere between a lot of work and impossible I won't touch this atm and hope it gets fixed on their side.
  • dstillman
    Just to clarify, this isn't IMDB's API. It's an unofficial one.

    More details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1966503/does-imdb-provide-an-api

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