TMDb needed for IMDb?

[nhaas]

Hello,
I'm trying to get this simple config to work, but running into issues...

# config.yml
plex:                                         # Req
  library: Movies                             # Req - Name of Plex library
  library_type: movie                         # Req - Type of Plex library (movie or show)
  token: --redacted--                 # Req - User's Plex authentication token
  url: --redacted--             # Req - URL to access Plex
  sync_mode: sync                             # Opt - Global Sync Mode

collections:
  IMDb Top 250:
    imdb_list: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?groups=top_250&count=250&sort=user_rating,desc
    sort_title: "*010"

However, it tells me that

| Updating collection: IMDb Top 250...
| Sync Mode: sync
| Config Error: imdb_list skipped. tmdb incorrectly configured

Am I missing something?

[ramair02]

In your config, do you have the correct apikey under tmdb?

[nhaas]

No, I don't have a tmdb heading at all in my config. The impression I got from the Readme was that tmdb was optional. Since not much was written about IMDb, so I assumed it would work out of the box. I will create a TMDb account so I can add the apikey.

In the meantime, can you explain why a TMDb account is needed to create a collection from an IMDb list? It's not clear to me after looking through the code. Thanks!

[ramair02]

I don't know for sure, but I suspect that since Plex uses TMDb as an agent, the script may need TMDb to associate the movies in an IMDb list to the correct movies in Plex. Just a hunch though...could be an entirely different reason.

[ramair02]

I'm no developer, just a user, so take this for what it's worth. I opened up the imdb_tools.py file from the app folder. It looks like, to me, that there are in fact dependencies on TMDb for IMDb to work. Thus, I believe you need the TMDb apikey in your script.

Here are a couple of snippets from the imdb_tools.py file which lead me to believe IMDb lists are dependent on TMDb for matching:

import re
import requests
import math
import sys
import os
import config_tools
try:
    from urllib.parse import urlparse
    from lxml import html
    from tmdbv3api import TMDb
    from tmdbv3api import Movie
    from tmdbv3api import List
    from tmdbv3api import TV
    from tmdbv3api import Discover
    from tmdbv3api import Collection
    from tmdbv3api import Company
    from tmdbv3api import Network
    from tmdbv3api import Person
    from tmdbv3api import Trending

def tmdb_get_imdb(config_path, tmdb_id):
    movie = Movie()
    movie.api_key = config_tools.TMDB(config_path).apikey
    search = movie.external_ids(tmdb_id)['imdb_id']
    if search:
        return str(search)

[nhaas]

Seems like maybe the Readme should be updated to include the fact that it doesn't really work without TMDb apikey