Whoop Whoop the Latest version worked. Thank you, thank you.  

I am putting way more time into this Cinematographer thing than it is worth After all, the People are pasted into DVDP, just into the wrong category, but with a 'correct' custom role.

Just in case anybody is as @nal about it, as me:

My advice is to just check if the Cinematographers are in the correct category before pasting into DVDP. If not, change it manually with CCE2's drop down menus. Not a big deal with movies.

With Series, if there is a problem, try to removing the 'Start with' checkmarks in the Director Transformation Settings and see if it turns out OK. CCE2 doesn't open the Browser for every episode again, so it way faster than the first run! So far it didn't mess up any Director credits for me, but again, I guess Carsten used the 'start with' option for a reason.

Don't use the Re-Apply Setting and Filter Button Button on the Bottom if you're making changes to the IMDB to DVDP Transformation Settings. Use the normal 'Scan Page' Button!

I was probably wrong about IMDB having changed many DoP to 'just' Cinematographer. Sometimes CCE2 just defaults to DoP, even if the Cinematographer isn't credited as such, here for example:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130236/

Edit: Minor but easy thing - adding 'cinematography' -> 'Cinematographer' to the Tranformations roles in 'Cinematography by' prevents custom role 'cinematography'.

Edit 2: Casting is effed up, too, at least if the imdb profile creator was lazy. The 'role' then often is just a short for a country like de, us, gb, uk  or whatever. (example: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22488654/) It is fixable but a bit of work:

Create 'Casting' category, create entry 'de' (for example) -> other > Casting Germany or just 'Casting'

Well the problem has arisen again, when collecting a cast or crew the data is blank.

Yes collecting a cast or crew the data is blank - please fix

The "TV Show" tab isn't able to scan the page I've browsed to via the "Browser" tab.  Running "Cast/Crew Edit 2 Version 2.1.15.1".  What's keeping DVD Profiler alive for me isn't Invelos.com.  It's Cast/Crew Edit 2.  Invelos could close shop tomorrow.  I could care less.  I'm perfectly content working locally and host my own phpDVDProfiler based website.  Having to manually add cast and crew data to new profiles, now that's a deal breaker.  I've got better things to do with my life.  I don't care whether the given IMDB data is accurate of not.  The moment "Cast/Crew Edit 2" is working again I'll be submitting a generous donation.  Hopefully an update is in the works.

When CastCrewEdit isn't working you might try TmdbInfo instead. It is, admittedly, not as advanced as CastCrewEdit, and it uses TMDB which is not quite as comprehensive as IMDb, BUT it is stable since it uses an API rather than having to do screen scraping. For most titles it is good enough to provide basic cast and crew data that you can then verify against the actual credits.

As movie_madness implies, sooner or later DJ is likely to give up on updating CastCrewEdit. And who can blame him? He has done a stellar job so far, but IMDb seems to be intent on tripping up anyone who does screen scraping. That's a problem that I don't have with TmdbInfo.

Quoting Lowpro:

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The "Crew" data only includes the "Director" and "Writer" for each episode.

Yes, crew data for TV shows is often minimal in TMDB, unfortunately. But I’m glad that you found it useful anyway.