Another birth year tool? Really?

Yeah, and this one is a bit special.



When you add a birth year to a person in your local database, that birth year is applied to all your profiles that contain said person.

However, that doesn't update the same profiles in the online database. So, a lot of your profiles will be more correct than the corresponding online profiles. You may find some of them just by happenstance, but is there an easy way to find all? There is now!

This program goes through all your profiles from an XML export of your collection. For every profile it checks if there are names with birth years that matches the names in the List of accepted BYs. If there are, the corresponding online profiles are downloaded to check if the birth year is missing there. And if it is, it gets listed as you see in the above illustration.

Read all about the features in the Help file! Note that this program needs mediadogg's plugin HTTPJolie!

BirthYearFinder 1.0.1

By the way, the time of day when the run is estimated to be done (16:52:43) is in 24 hour format in the illustration. I haven't tested changing my system settings, but since this is from a standard Microsoft function, I assume that it will be shown in 12 hour format (like 4:52:43 PM) if that is your system setting. If not, get with it and learn 24 hour time! 

BirthYearFinder 1.1.0

Working with BirthYearFinder I realized that I wanted some more features. So here they are:

I found that saving the result to csv and loading it in a spreadsheet wasn't as useful as I had thought, so I added the possibility to save the result as a json file that could later be re-loaded into the program, thus still having the link to the forum post(s), and the possibility to double-click to select in Profiler.

I also added the possibility to search the title and person in IMDb from the context menu.

I now save the path where the xml was loaded from and where the result was saved, so you get the appropriate initial directory for loading and saving. No having to switch back and forth in the dialog.

And I fixed a problem with deleting rows in the result. And I made the icon look better.
And I hope I won't have to release a new version again tomorrow. 

BirthYearFinder 1.3.0

I had some free time during Xmas, so I added a few more features to BirhYearFinder.
» Uncredited cast is marked with an asterisk.
» Filtering for titles (Ctrl-F).
» Optionally add columns Collection Number, Production Year and Media. See Settings.

A few minor bugs were also fixed.

Please note that the new columns can only be shown for results that were created with this version. If you load results that were saved in a previous version, these columns will not be available.

Here is a tip (that also works in 1.2):


Even though I have chosen to group the result by ID per default, you can actually group it by any column(s). Just drag the column header up to the grouping area. The example shows that I have triple dipped on 20 Million Miles to Earth, and their online profiles all need a birth year for Joan Taylor.

Feel free to experiment with different groupings to see if any of them work better for you than just grouping on ID.

As always, refresh your browser if you don't see the latest version in the download page.