Flexget: imdb_watchlist plugin broken

Presumably due to IMDB making changes on their end.

Flexget version: 2.11.8

Stacktrace:

2017-12-08 19:34 CRITICAL task          populate_movies_list BUG: Unhandled error in plugin imdb_watchlist: int() argument must be a string, a bytes-like object or a number, not 'NoneType'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/flexget/task.py", line 486, in __run_plugin
    return method(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/flexget/event.py", line 23, in __call__
    return self.func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/flexget/utils/cached_input.py", line 148, in wrapped_func
    response = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/flexget/plugins/input/imdb_watchlist.py", line 106, in on_task_input
    total_item_count = int(soup.find('div', class_='desc').get('data-size'))
TypeError: int() argument must be a string, a bytes-like object or a number, not 'NoneType'

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 25 (8 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

imdb_watchlist plugin fixed issue #2035 — committed to thawn/Flexget by thawn 7 years ago
[fix] imdb_watchlist plugin (#2050). Closes #2035 * imdb_watchlist plugin fixed issue #2035 * imdb_watchlist plugin fixed minor formatting issue * imdb_watchlist plugin removed obsolete debug c... — committed to Flexget/Flexget by thawn 7 years ago

Most upvoted comments

IMDB changed two things:

on the watchlist page, the list is now dynamically generated using a react javascript widget. This widget uses a JSON api.
on other list pages, the compact view is gone

Accordingly, I wrote a parser for the javascript list of imdb title ids and the JSON api, and updated the html parsing code to be able to handle the detailed list view.

thawn on Dec 30, 2017