Hello everyone,
I have a small problem that I’m sure I’m not the only one to have encountered.
After importing from IMDb, I have 2000 movies with the same date.
Is there a way to change the same play date, present in multiple movies (2000), to an unknown date all at once?
This sounds like a bug to fix in the import process. There’s no way it makes sense to import a user’s IMDb items all at the current time. They should definitely use the “Unknown date” feature that was added not too long ago.
Hi dgw,
I imported my movies from IMDB a long time before the ‘unknown date’ feature was implemented.
Oof, I see now.
Hopefully there is a solution. I’m sure a “quick” script using the Trakt API could be pointed at these and fix them “one by one” in a big loop, but not everyone’s a coder.
I also have a bunch of things I’ve manually marked “watched” at a specific date far in the past, before “unknown date” was an option, so I have a bit of skin in this game too.
Hmm, that might be a bug indeed. Can you send me the file you imported so I can investigate?
If it is indeed a bug, I’ll fix it, afterwards you can undo the import and re-import it again.
Hi Seftur,
Hi just send you my CSV file in a private message
In case of IMDB data, we assume date the date on which you rated it also when you watched something. But I can see how that’s not always something you might want.
To support this, the json/ csv importers now support “watched at” dates that can be set to “unknown". In case of imdb, you can rename some of the items in the header to match the names from the guidelines, and add an explicit watched_at entry. For example:
watched_at,id,rating,rated_at
"unknown",tt1431045,8,2025-03-30
@Starfix_Nova for your case, I’ve sent you back a csv file with those changes made.
@seftur Thank you very much for this information and clarification; I believe that with all these elements I will be able to find a solution to my case.
