IMDB Broke? Since 2025-11-12

if it's not grabbing...no imdb, works here

i just tried it and it workd for me using imdb.com.imdb.ini
the latest files dont get updated in your mdb folder
when you do a pack update the files in siteini.pack MDB postprocessor folder will get updated.
you have to copy them to your mdb folder,least the ones u intend to use.
the file i tried imdb.com.imdb.ini
* @Revision 20 [20/08/2025] Blackbear199
*   - aka fix
*   - director/actor fix

[  Debug ] found: C:\Users\xxxxxxx\AppData\Local\WebGrab+Plus\mdb\imdb.com.imdb.ini -- Revision 20
[  Info  ] Movie: 1/1 ..  My Dead Friend Zoe
[  Info  ] "My Dead Friend Zoe" +  (2024) + "" .. found Show_id , 22022784, 36234262, 30691191?
[  Info  ] Matching in imdb.com, showid = 22022784
[  Debug ] Title(s) = My Dead Friend Zoe|My Dead Friend Zoe (Australia)|Zoe, Minha Amiga Morta (Brazil)|My Dead Friend Zoe (Canada)(English)|Z ....
[  Debug ] Starrating = 6.5
[  Debug ] Description = Engaged in a mysterious relationship with her dead best friend from the Army, a female Afghanistan veteran comes head to ....
[  Debug ] Actor(s) = Sonequa Martin-Green(role=Merit)|Natalie Morales(role=Zoe)|Ed Harris(role=Dale)|Morgan Freeman(role=Dr. Cole)|Gloria Reu ....
[  Debug ] Director(s) = Kyle Hausmann-Stokes
[  Debug ] Producer(s) = Jeff Annison|Gregory Bartlett|David Baxter|Fred Benenson|Chris Boshuizen|Jamie Castro|Amado DeHoyos|Benjamin Dunn|Jordan ....
[  Debug ] Category = Dark Comedy|Comedy|Drama|War
[  Debug ] Productiondate = 2024
[  Debug ] First CommentSummary = Good, but not great.
[  Debug ] Review = While I can understand why some might have a real connection ....
[  Debug ] ShowIcon = hxxps://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZGVmODBmMDItYjQxMi00ZDU5LWFhOWEtZGU4YzRkNzM1Nzg3XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_QL75_UX190_CR0, ....

upload you webgrab log file and mdb config.

i cant think of a reason why a windows update would break anything.

all of those fails are not because it didnt find a match on imdb.
it because it didnt look.
at some time it did search for these shows and didnt find a match so it added is to your database file as  a no match.
example
mdb lookup fail
[  Info  ] Movie: 1/1 ..  Cyrano
[  Info  ] "Cyrano" +  (2022) + "Bob Smith" .. found Show_id , 12889404, 0099334, 0042367?
[  Info  ] No match in imdb.com !!
[  Debug ] "Cyrano" +  (2022) + "Bob Smith" .. no result!
[  Info  ] no result!

mdb database lookup fail(show marked as no match)
[  Info  ] Movie: 1/472 ..  Cyrano
[  Debug ] "Cyrano" +  (2022) .. no result!
[  Info  ] no result!
 

in the actual mdb database its marked like this..
 

<no-match>

    <entry-date>20251124</entry-date>

    <attempts>1</attempts>

    <searchstring>Cyrano +  (2022)</searchstring>

  </no-match>

****** notice i removed the director to force a fail so it would create the database entry, also on imdb ths movie shows the year as 2021 but since you have match title and productiondate/director/actor - title/productionate, title/director, title/actor will all producee a successful match. i didnt have to change the year to make it fail because it already doesnt match what imdb has.

now that the database has this entry when a lookup is called the database is searched first and it found the no match and you get exactly the output your log shows, it doesnt even try to search imdb again....unless you tell it to.
you should get the latest documented configuration files from the downloads page and look through the mdb one.
there are additional options for the mdb database.

<ldbfilename update="f" add-nomatch="no" retry-nomatch="no">mdb.xml</ldbfilename>
 

update="" or "n" , left blank , will not be updated

      update="i" , incremental, only the selected shows will be saved in the local MDB data file

      update="f" , all shows will be kept and new shows added. This is the prefered update mode.

      (Over time this MDB data file could grow to an unpractical size with update="f", if the time to match a selected show in this file exceeds the time to do the same online).  

    update="r" , expert mode, refresh, will replace all <show> entries with new data from the mdb source

- optional add-nomatch="no" will not add unmatched shows. Default TRUE

- optional retry-nomatch="yes" when unmatched shows are added, will retry a match. Default FALSE

so set retry-nomatch="yes" and all these movies marked as a no match in the database will be retried instead of automatically marked as 'No result" because of the database entry.
optionally you could also set add-nomatch="no" so a failed match is never added in the first place.
its a decision you have to decide the pro's and con's for.
do you want the extra time thats consumed constantly retrying failed matches.
right now you have  really no choice as u already have a database.
 

try changing your mustmatch to..
<matchmovie mustmatch="title,productiondate,actor,director"  optional="" minimum="2"/>
 

run webgrab manually from the command prompt
/path/to/exe /path/to/webgrab/config/directory
need quotes around path if it has spaces
"C:\Program Files (x86)\WebGrab+Plus\bin\WebGrab+plus.exe" C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\WebGrab+Plus

also here are my setting
 

<selectmovie duration="76" minumum="2" musthave="title" contains="" optional="productiondate,actor,director"/>

    <selectserie duration="25" minumum="2" musthave="title" contains="" optional="sub-title, episode-num"/>

    <matchmovie mustmatch="title" optional="productiondate,actor,director" minimum="2"/>

    <matchserie mustmatch="title, sub-title, episode-num" optional="" minimum="2"/>
also try this file(remove the underscores forums add to uploads)
i just ran it on sky premiere on a single day epg grab..
[  Debug ]  -------------------------------
[  Debug ]      MDB Postprocessor result
[  Debug ]  -------------------------------
[  Debug ] Mdb data found for 12 out of 12 Movies-candidates
[  Debug ] Mdb data found for 0 out of 0 Series-candidates
[  Debug ] In 135.47 seconds  = 11.29 seconds/matched-show

could the updated have changed your firewall settings?
try running wengrab as adminstrator.
i get all updates on win 11 and have no issues.

interesting.
thats the trick,figure out where it's getting blocked.
i think u said u trying to uninstall and reinstall webgrab?
if i remember right when a updated webgrab is installed you get a popup asking if you want to trust the application.
i dont know if you will still get it with a uninstall/reinstall with the same version.
i checked my firewall setting and webgrab+plus.exe isnt  in the list for me.
but you could try adding it manually.

not that i know of.

dotnet only has a few simple arguments.
you could uninstalling and reinstalling dotnet.

the thing is webgrab itself isnt being blocked as you can grab epg data.
the outbound request for mdb is what seems to be blocked.
i dont see why,if webgrab is trusted then so should it be.
what about virus threat or something causing the block?
to me that should produce a notification but its windows so one never knows how its going to behave.

checked my virus and threat protection and i have 2 exclusions for dotnet
C:\Program Files(x86)\dotnet
C:Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\dotnet