Rebuilt scraper into a TMDb Advanced Movie Title Renaming Script (Collections + Smart Titles#17
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…of IMDb. Not just a scraper, its an Advanced Movie Title Renaming Script (Collections + Smart Titles)
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Co-authored-by: Andrew J.Swan <ajs.blackhole@gmail.com>
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Advanced Movie Title Renaming Script (Collections + Smart Titles)
I’ve been working on a custom scraper rename system for Moving Pictures that significantly improves how movie titles, sort titles, and collections are generated automatically. This uses the existing IMDB+ plugin, but the scraper is a complete rewrite and no longer uses IMDb.
What it does:
Automatically builds clean titles using TMDB collections
Adds Roman numerals based on release order
Generates proper sort titles (e.g. Fast and Furious 01)
Cleans up messy subtitles and duplicates
Removes:
“The Movie”
“Part X”
duplicate franchise names
trailing duplicate titles
Handles edge cases like:
Star Wars episode ordering
Batman / DC shared universes
Tron / ALL CAPS franchises
[REC] superscripts (² ³ → 2 3)
Smart duplicate removal:
Mall Cop I: Paul Blart: Mall Cop → Mall Cop I: Paul Blart
[REC] II: [REC] 2 → [REC] II
Cleans collection names:
Removes "Collection"
Removes leading "The"
Rename XML change:
XML used to override
Fallback to Auto mode to rename the movie
Poster and Backdrop:
Faster image loading using TMDb
Key benefit:
Fully automated clean library naming without manual XML overrides. You can still use the XML overrides, but you no longer need to rely on them and new movies just work 95% of the time. That makes the override file much smaller.