AKA Titles

Question

What AKA Titles does My Films grab?

Background

Not many websites provide AKA (Also Known As) Titles. IMDB (English) is the main website that provides this data. Only one AKA title is usually listed on the main IMDB page but often there are many AKAs listed on a sub page.  These may include localized or translated titles by country, working tiles, promotional titles, International titles, DVD titles etc.

Answer

If you are using the IMDB or IMDB-Full grabber with My Films to grab data for your Ant Movie Catalog (AMC), you can use grabber override or grabber script options to select which AKA titles you wish to grab.

In Grabber override options on the Update tab in Setup, the dropdown list for Country/Language lists only the main values usually used on IMDB.  However, you may enter any value you wish, even multiple values separated by a comma. For example, you could enter 'International' if you wish to grab all the AKA International titles.  Or you could enter 'English' for all English titles.  Of course the accuracy depends on the consistency of the data entered on the website you grab the data from.