IMDb: no genres, director, scriptwriter, producer, or contributor added

avh.on1 · December 1, 2025

When adding a film from IMDb to Zotero, the translator does not add any genres or persons metadata.

poettli · December 1, 2025

This URL from an older thread stopped to work for me: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8620154/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

Zotero 7.0.30
Firefox 145.0.2
Zotero connector 5.0.189

avh.on1 · December 3, 2025

Below is the output logging from scraping https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077703/
None of the directors, writers, or stars are in the resulting item

(3)(+0018234): Connector_Browser: onActivated for https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077703/

(3)(+0002562): translate message received in injected page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077703/

(3)(+0000004): HTTP POST http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/ping

(3)(+0000010): HTTP 200 http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/ping response

(3)(+0000000): Connector: Method ping succeeded

(3)(+0000003): PageSaving.onTranslate: Translating with IMDb, {"fallbackOnFailure":true}

(4)(+0000003): Translate: Binding sandbox to https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077703/

(3)(+0000004): progressWindow.show message received in injected page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077703/

(4)(+0000057): Translate: Parsing code for IMDb (a30274ac-d3d1-4977-80f4-5320613226ec, 2025-07-31 17:20:00)

(3)(+0000002): Translate: Beginning translation with IMDb

(3)(+0000006): Translate: Saving item

(5)(+0000001): Translate: Running handler 0 for itemSaving

(3)(+0000003): Translate: Saving via queue

(5)(+0000002): Translate: Running handler 0 for done

(3)(+0000001): ItemSaver.saveItems: Saving 1 items

(3)(+0000003): progressWindow.itemProgress message received in injected page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077703/

(3)(+0000018): HTTP POST http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/saveItems

(3)(+0000032): progressWindowIframe.registered message received in injected page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077703/

(3)(+0000002): HTTP POST http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/getSelectedCollection

(3)(+0000001): progressWindowIframe.updateProgress message received in injected page moz-extension://7bba3509-0f7d-4cdd-8b42-5113b4d10d37/progressWindow/progressWindow.html

(3)(+0000003): progressWindowIframe.shown message received in injected page moz-extension://7bba3509-0f7d-4cdd-8b42-5113b4d10d37/progressWindow/progressWindow.html

(3)(+0000014): HTTP 200 http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/getSelectedCollection response

(3)(+0000001): Connector: Method getSelectedCollection succeeded

(3)(+0000029): progressWindowIframe.changeHeadline message received in injected page moz-extension://7bba3509-0f7d-4cdd-8b42-5113b4d10d37/progressWindow/progressWindow.html

(3)(+0000062): progressWindowIframe.resized message received in injected page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077703/

(3)(+0000004): progressWindowIframe.resized message received in injected page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077703/

(3)(+0000304): HTTP 201 http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/saveItems response

(3)(+0000000): Connector: Method saveItems succeeded

(3)(+0000005): Translate: Save via Zotero succeeded

(3)(+0000002): HTTP POST http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/getSelectedCollection

(3)(+0000003): progressWindow.itemProgress message received in injected page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077703/

(3)(+0000002): progressWindow.sessionCreated message received in injected page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077703/

(3)(+0000002): progressWindowIframe.updateProgress message received in injected page moz-extension://7bba3509-0f7d-4cdd-8b42-5113b4d10d37/progressWindow/progressWindow.html

(3)(+0000051): HTTP 200 http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/getSelectedCollection response

(3)(+0000000): Connector: Method getSelectedCollection succeeded

(3)(+0000023): ItemSaver.saveAttachmentsToZotero: Saving attachments directly to Zotero

(3)(+0000004): progressWindow.done message received in injected page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077703/

(3)(+0000004): progressWindowIframe.willHide message received in injected page moz-extension://7bba3509-0f7d-4cdd-8b42-5113b4d10d37/progressWindow/progressWindow.html

(3)(+0001123): Connector_Browser: onActivated for moz-extension://7bba3509-0f7d-4cdd-8b42-5113b4d10d37/preferences/preferences.html#advanced

(3)(+0000001): HTTP POST http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/ping

(3)(+0000014): HTTP 200 http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/ping response

(3)(+0000000): Connector: Method ping succeeded

(3)(+0002328): progressWindowIframe.hidden message received in injected page moz-extension://7bba3509-0f7d-4cdd-8b42-5113b4d10d37/progressWindow/progressWindow.html

avh.on1 · December 3, 2025

I did some reading / learning on the wiki and ran the IMDb translator's tests in Scaffold. Every single one of them fails, mostly with the error "Item 0 does not match", although I wasn't able to spot the difference between the test output and the expected output. Interestingly, the tests do find creators: directors, scriptwriters, and contributors. (Producers aren't commonly listed on IMDb pages.) However, running the translator on the same URLs (for example, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089276/ ) produces items with no creators in them.

avh.on1 · 2026-01-25T20:31:40+00:00

...well, the tests now pass, and the translator is detecting and adding persons again. It doesn't look like the translator has had any commits to it recently. I wonder if the website has been changing.