I've edited this a lot while I tried to find out more what exactly happened. So don't wonder if you already read this and it has completly changed:

I had Matthew Gray (fake BY 31557) & Matthew Gray Gubler (1980) in my collection.

CCE2 told me M.G.'s common name has changed to Matthew Gray Gubler but it didn't. To make a long story short, it probably was an url change on imdb between two different people not a name change or sites merged. Also nothing seems to have been the 'fault' of CCE2.

Probably pages on the imdb were reorganized while somebody fixed some errors on the pages or whatever. MGG probably got the URL of MG, MG got a new one and CCE2 was really confused. At least that is the only way I could explain what happened.

Sad thing is that this maybe happens more often lately. In the last weeks I had a few really unusual name changes. Barbara Miller to Peter Smith or something like that. But alwas with people I didn't knew and were credited once or twice. This actor from Criminial Minds I actually knew and had a picture atttached. That is the reason I realized something was going wrong. So I guess the best thing to do is to check the actual imdb pages if a changed name is suspicious and in doubt parse everything with the people involved again getting all BYs again also.

I was able to use this plug in fine last night with no problem.  This morning, I first got a 503 error whenever I tried grabbing headshots.  After that was a 500 error.  Now, after rebooting my computer and simply trying to search for a movie I get the following:

D'oh!
We're sorry, something went wrong.

Please try again...wait...wait...yep, try reload/refresh now.

But if you are seeing this again, please report it here.

Please explain which page you were at and where on it that you clicked

Thank you!


I went so far as to try using the software on a separate computer and still received the above "D'oh" message.  Anyone know what's going on here?

The Simpson's D'oh! sounded like somtehing that could have come from me, but I searched the code and didn't find anything.

So my guess is that IMDb itself had a sort of hiccup.

Sorry to bother again but at some point in the past CCE2 started to parse german episode names. I guess it's the imdb's 'fault'. It's easy to fix that in a browser but I have no idea if there is a way to parse original names in CCE2 again. Even if I log into imdb with my account from within CCE2 it doesn't work.

Of a series? Columbo:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1466074/reference

Check out 2.0.2.3

Little sneak preview for the next version:

I've build a scanner that scans your local cast and crew file and checks if IMDb has merged two actors that are considered different in your database.

But fair warning: This will take a while. My 90,000 cast members took 13 hours to scan. This is due to the fact that for each actor IMDb has to be called and checked if they re-route the URL to a different IMDb-ID.

The result will look something like this (this is test data taken from my own collection):

Looks great! Can't await it, thanks! But can you pause it? I guess I won't do the crew if it takes so long and can't be paused.