Movie and TV Show Search

[sosaveme]

[19:29:01.797] Logging Started...
[19:29:02.976] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'friends'
[19:29:03.780] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'fr'
[19:29:03.964] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Script with argv 'fr' finished
[19:29:03.967] STDERR: Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=0ebad901a16d3bf7f947b0a8d1808c44&query=fr&search_type=ngram&language=en
<urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused>
[19:29:03.969] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] {"items": [{"title": "Uh oh... something went wrong", "subtitle": "Please check your internet connection."}]}
[19:29:04.832] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'friends'
[19:29:05.013] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Script with argv 'friends' finished
[19:29:05.020] STDERR: Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=0ebad901a16d3bf7f947b0a8d1808c44&query=friends&search_type=ngram&language=en
<urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused>
[19:29:05.023] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] {"items": [{"title": "Uh oh... something went wrong", "subtitle": "Please check your internet connection."}]}

 

Strange thing, I can't open themoviedb.org even with shadowsocks VPN. But it opens with Tor.

 

P.S. Don't have Python 3

Edited September 29, 2023 by sosaveme

[DrDannySands]

2 hours ago, vitor said:

@DrDannySands @sosaveme Check the debugger. The developer needs that information to know what’s going on.

[07:40:35.020] Logging Started...

[07:40:49.247] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'greyhound'

[07:40:49.559] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Script with argv 'greyhound' finished

[07:40:49.564] STDERR: Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=0ebad901a16d3bf7f947b0a8d1808c44&query=greyhound&search_type=ngram&language=en

<urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:992)>

[07:40:49.566] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] {"items": [{"title": "Uh oh... something went wrong", "subtitle": "Please check your internet connection."}]}

[vitor]

1 hour ago, sosaveme said:

<urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused>

 

That one seems to be a problem with your connection. Perhaps you have something on your network or machine blocking the connection. One example could be a company firewall blocking the request (in which case the solution would be to retry at another location).

 

24 minutes ago, DrDannySands said:

<urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:992)>

 

If you installed Python yourself (as opposed to using the Homebrew version), you have to install the certificates too.

[jl_al]

Hi there.

 

Just installed the workflow and once movie is located, it's falling back to Google search instead of display results for the review sites.

 

Help appreciated. Thank you.

 

Debug final output before error:

 

  File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 641, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

[tone]

Hi @jl_al. I'm not seeing the same issue here. You could try checking the following:

- In the workflow configuration, make sure there's an API key entered in OMDB API Key

- There may be something on your network that's messing up communication to OMDB or TMDb. Try navigating to those sites in a browser to make sure you can reach them:

https://www.omdbapi.com

https://www.themoviedb.org

[jl_al]

2 hours ago, tone said:

Hi @jl_al. I'm not seeing the same issue here. You could try checking the following:

- In the workflow configuration, make sure there's an API key entered in OMDB API Key

- There may be something on your network that's messing up communication to OMDB or TMDb. Try navigating to those sites in a browser to make sure you can reach them:

https://www.omdbapi.com

https://www.themoviedb.org

 

Ok. So this was really dumb... I hadn't seen that the API key OMDB sends you in an email requires you to click a link also in the email to activate it!

 

Here is your key: XXXXXXXX

Please append it to all of your API requests,

OMDb API: http://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt3896198&apikey=XXXXXXX

Click the following URL to activate your key: http://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx?VERIFYKEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
If you did not make this request, please disregard this email.

 

It is now of course working! Thank you for your help in any case!

[blgentry]

For a while I was using a URL based search on justwatch.  At some point this stopped working and just opened the site without any results and I'd have to type in my search into the search box and go from there.  I guess they switched to an API based model or something?

 

So yesterday I decided to fix it and I couldn't figure out a URL based way to do it.  After some research and trials, I installed this workflow.  I thought it was a little odd that I had to do through 3 steps to get to the justwatch listing.  I also thought it was weird that "justwatch" kept pulling up TMDB.  But then I noticed that this is a subsection of TMDB that shows all of the justwatch results embedded.  Neat.

 

Over the next half day I realized how good this workflow really is.  I don't have to type the entire title as it is interactively searching while I type in Alfred.  Wow.  I can watch a trailer directly without going to look for it on the justwatch page.   IMDB is there too for extra info.

 

This is going to speed up my entertainment searching.  I probably won't use the Alfred imdb keyword ever again.  This is a really good workflow!

 

Thanks for the work it took to create it.  I'm looking forward to using it and learning more about it.

 

Brian.

[mcflurry]

Hi! I'm new to Alfred and having an issue with the first workflow I downloaded. Wondering if it's because I don't have everything set up correctly. Specifically, for the workflow called "Movie and TV Show Search," when I try to search for a movie I get an error that says not connected to the internet. Can anyone help me with this? 

[vitor]

Welcome @mcflurry,

 

When asking about an existing Workflow, it’s best to use its own forum thread. While it may seem that starting a new thread could give your problem visibility, it fragments the discussion and makes it less likely the author and users of the workflow (the people who can help) will see it. I have moved your post to the correct thread.

More information is required to diagnose the issue. Please see the short post How to Report a Problem with a Workflow for details on what to provide.

[mcflurry]

Thanks! I think I'm having the same issue as DrDannySands above.

 

I ran the workflow by calling alfred. Do I need to have Python installed to run this workflow? 

 

The debugger shows the below:

[17:17:32.002] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'r'
[17:17:33.116] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'fa'
[17:17:33.371] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Script with argv 'fa' finished
[17:17:33.374] STDERR: Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=0ebad901a16d3bf7f947b0a8d1808c44&query=fa&search_type=ngram&language=en
<urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1123)>
[17:17:33.386] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] {"items": [{"title": "Uh oh... something went wrong", "subtitle": "Please check your internet connection."}]}

 

Current software:

Mac os 14.2.1 (23C71)

Alfred 5

workflow version v2.18.0

 

 

 

[vitor]

8 minutes ago, mcflurry said:

SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED

 

This usually means you installed Python from their website, in which case you have to install the certificates too.

[mcflurry]

Ah ok I misunderstood. That worked, thank you!!

[alfreduser123]

Hi there

 

Has anyone run into the following error?

 

[00:25:06.591] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'pulp'
[00:25:06.606] Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Script with argv 'pulp' finished
[00:25:06.611] ERROR: Movie and TV Show Search[Script Filter] Code 1: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

 

This workflow worked until I updated (I think). I'm currently running v2.20.0

I'm on Ventura 13.6.2

 

Fantastic workflow btw.

 

With thanks.

[Stephen_C]

Try installing, or re-installing, the Apple Command Line tools—see, for example, this post and subsequent comments in that thread.

 

Stephen

 

Edited February 7, 2024 by Stephen_C

[alfreduser123]

18 hours ago, Stephen_C said:

Try installing, or re-installing, the Apple Command Line tools—see, for example, this post and subsequent comments in that thread.

 

Stephen

 

 

Worked like a charm. Thanks @Stephen_C!

Just for my understanding, this happened because of the change to "Use /usr/bin/python3" (in 2.20.0), and python3 requires command line tools, right?

 

Thanks again!

[vitor]

Not exactly, as the workflow already used Python 3, only the path changed so everyone’s on the same version. That break sometimes happens after a macOS update.

[alfreduser123]

4 hours ago, vitor said:

Not exactly, as the workflow already used Python 3, only the path changed so everyone’s on the same version. That break sometimes happens after a macOS update.

 

@vitor Ah ok! Thank you for clarifying -- and the great support! It's amazing how quickly you guys responded.

Much appreciated.

 

[blgentry]

I've been fighting with a problem with this for a while.  The error says that distutils is not found.

 

What I've figured out is:

* Homebrew is now installing python 3.12 .  

* 3.12 has REMOVED distutils

* PIP refuses to update a homebrew managed installation of python

* There is a replacement package, that's part of homebrew, but the name totally non-obvious.

 

The fix to get distutils working in brew's python 3.12 is:

 

brew install python-setuptools

 

After that finishes, distutils is back and the movie and TV show search workflow works again.

<angels sing>

 

Brian.

[vitor]

@blgentry The current version of the workflow always uses the Python version from macOS, not Homebrew. If you’re having that problem, you’re likely not on the latest version on the workflow.

[blgentry]

Interesting.  I would have thought the workflow would update automatically or indicate to me that there were updates.  I just manually updated it, then removed the brew package referenced above.  The workflow works as expected again.  Neat!

 

Brian.

[blgentry]

I use this workflow quite a bit and I'm constantly hammering command-n to go down to the entry I want, which is usually JustWatch.

 

I would love to have a way to move this as the top item.  

 

Also, why is there no default item?  The item that our cursor lands on is some kind of dummy icon of the movie.  

 

Finally, the Justwatch entry is really a submenu of the TMDB listing.  IMDB has its own entry.  Why is there no TMDB selection to go to the master page of TMDB?

 

All of these would be features I would use and appreciate.  

 

Thanks,

Brian.

[alpo]

I have set my own OMDB API key.

After a couple of attempts,

the workflow started to display the results. Yey!

 

When clicking Enter to see the details, 

Alfred window disappears and nothing happens.

Is this the expected behavior? I was thinking it will display some details for the selected item. 

[Stephen_C]

Please see my other post for information you need to provide.

 

Stephen

[filrkaye]

I have installed Movie and TV Show Search workflow.  When I run and start with “movie” in search box the correct icon for workflow comes up but once I put in a movie title it wants to look up in google , Amazon or Wikipedia?  Not the workflow search.

[vitor]

Welcome @filrkaye,

 

When asking about an existing Workflow, it’s best to use its own forum thread. While it may seem that starting a new thread could give your problem visibility, it fragments the discussion and makes it less likely the author and users of the workflow (the people who can help) will see it. Please see the How to Ask for Help with a Workflow. I have moved your post to the correct thread.

Additionally, see How to Ask for Help with a Workflow for a primer on the information to include when asking for assistance. Following those short points only takes a minute and makes everyone better equipped to help you.