Richard wrote:Is there a way to paste in the IMDb number and then pull the information into the mobile app?
In Safari goto IMDb site and find the movie you are after. Then if you tap on the url (address) bar that will reveal the entire url address. In the middle of that address look for a number beginning in tt, that is the IMDb number. Tap and do a long press on that number, tap on 'Select' and move the blue bars to highlight just the number without the tt, now tap on Copy. Open up Pocketpedia and open up the Add Movie box and select Add Movie. This will open up Doghouse search, now do a long press on the search box and the Paste facility will appear, once the number is in the box, tap the blue search box on the keyboard. If the movie is in the Doghouse data base it will appear in a list, select your desired copy of the movie. If you are now happy with the results tap the + (plus) symbol top right and the movie will be added to your pedia data base.
(btw there is no option to paste info when you tap on the field)
As just explained if you do a
long press (or double tap) on any data in most app's in iOS it will bring up the black box with all the select, copy & paste facilities and these are system wide. i.e. you can copy data from one app and paste into another.
The problem I am having is that I like to add my movies while I am away from my computer especially when I am buying digital copy’s. I rely on IMDB for all of my info on movies and then just add in all the formats I own.
Unfortunately I believe,
and I could be wrong here, but Pocketpedia only pulls data from Doghouse. It would be great if it could pull data from IMDb or Amazon but I think this could have something to do with the API licenses on mobile devices from these companies. Hence one of the reasons for Doghouse in the first place.
Though, as seen above, using the IMDb or Amazon ASIN number will pull info in from Doghouse if Doghouse has that number, otherwise use the movie title as your search criteria. Careful using the Amazon ASIN as Amazon has different numbers for each format, DVD, Blue-ray, VHS, streaming and people are getting these mixed up when they contribute to Doghouse.
Conor will have a more accurate answers. Hope these answers help in the mean time.