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humble pewter Oct 13, 2025, 8:34 PM

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Hiya, been awhile. I just noticed my Holiday collection isn't working. I've been looking through other older issues searching Holiday and Seasonal on here, trying not to bug you guys, but I can't seem to find my underlying issue. I'm pretty sure it worked before..I don't hav the now defunct "imdb.com/search/title/" stuff. Only lists. I'm sure it's easy enough to fix, just need a little guidance please?

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cloud tigerBOT Oct 13, 2025, 8:34 PM

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humble pewter Oct 13, 2025, 8:35 PM

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📎 meta.log

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📎 movieholidays.yml

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Just in case, here's the other yml that creates my other collections:
(Which on a unrelated side note, I can't seem to get the smart collection thing to work so it doesn't need to run to update?! Starts at Line 44)

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📎 moviecollections.yml

chrome magnet Oct 13, 2025, 8:53 PM

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The holiday collections that ar scheduled to run today are "Thanksgiving" in Movies and "Thanksgiving" and "Halloween" in TV.

In both cases Thanksgiving is failing due to an error on the IMDb side:

|============================== Running Thanksgiving Movies Collection ==============================|
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| Sync Mode: append
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| Builder: imdb_list: {'list_id': 'ls000835734', 'limit': 0}
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| Processing IMDb List: ls000835734
| Response: {'errors': [{'message': 'Variable "$isInPace" of required type "Boolean!" was not provided.', 'locations': [{'line': 1, 'column': 161}], 'extensions': {'code': 'BAD_USER_INPUT', 'locations': [{'line': 1, 'column': 161}]}}], 'extensions': {'disclaimer': 'Public, commercial, and/or non-private use of the IMDb data provided by this API is not allowed. For limited non-commercial use of IMDb data and the associated requirements see https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/can-i-use-imdb-data-in-my-software/G5JTRESSHJBBHTGX#', 'entitlements': {'fields': {'Title.productionStatus': 'DENY', 'Title.principalCreditsV2': 'DENY'}, 'inUse': True}}} |
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "C:\Users\User\Kometa\kometa.py", line 857, in run_collection
|     builder.filter_and_save_items(builder.gather_ids(method, value))
|   File "C:\Users\User\Kometa\modules\builder.py", line 2259, in gather_ids
|     ids = self.config.IMDb.get_imdb_ids(method, value, self.language)
|   File "C:\Users\User\Kometa\modules\imdb.py", line 769, in get_imdb_ids
|     return [(i, "imdb") for i in self._pagination(data, "list" if method == "imdb_list" else "watchlist")] |
|   File "C:\Users\User\Kometa\modules\imdb.py", line 639, in _pagination
|     search_data = response_json["data"][step]["titleListItemSearch"] if is_list else response_json["data"]["advancedTitleSearch"] |
| KeyError: 'data'
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| Unknown Error: 'data'

Halloween in the TV case fails because the builder you're using doesn't work with TV:

|============================== Validating Halloween Movies Attributes ==============================|
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| Looking for: Halloween Movies
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| Validating Method: smart_label
| Value: title.asc
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| Validating Method: delete_not_scheduled
| Value: True
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| Validating Method: schedule
| Value: range(10/01-10/31)
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| Validating Method: imdb_list
| Value: ['https://www.imdb.com/list/ls023118929/', 'https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000099714/']
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| Validating Method: tmdb_collection
| Value: [91361, 8581, 1733, 8091]
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "C:\Users\User\Kometa\kometa.py", line 829, in run_collection
|     builder = CollectionBuilder(config, metadata, mapping_name, collection_attrs, library=library, extra=output_str) |
|   File "C:\Users\User\Kometa\modules\builder.py", line 1025, in __init__
|     raise Failed(f"{self.Type} Error: {method_final} attribute only allowed for movie libraries")
| modules.util.Failed: Collection Error: tmdb_collection attribute only allowed for movie libraries
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| Collection Error: tmdb_collection attribute only allowed for movie libraries

quaint oceanBOT Oct 13, 2025, 8:53 PM

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chrome magnet The holiday collections that ar scheduled to run today are "Thanksgiving" in Mov...

This error is due to a change on the IMDB side; it is fixed in the Kometa nightly build as of 06/27/2025

chrome magnet Oct 13, 2025, 8:54 PM

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You're also using a fairly old version of Kometa, so you probably want to update that.

humble pewter Oct 13, 2025, 9:28 PM

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Dumb question, but if I update to the latest stable is that nightly update included since it's older?

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or should i just switch and use nightly?

amber wolf Oct 13, 2025, 9:36 PM

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Right now latest, develop, nightly are all the same build and any IMDb “fix” up to this point from nightly, will be included in the latest release

humble pewter Oct 13, 2025, 9:55 PM

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ok, thanks.

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Could that be why that smart collection I mentioned wasn't working as well?

amber wolf Oct 13, 2025, 10:01 PM

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Not necessarily. Could be that you have an old version of Kometa…

chrome magnet Oct 13, 2025, 10:07 PM

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Which smart collection?

Starts at Line 44

Line 44 of what? That second YAML file?

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What are you expecting it to do, and what is it doing instead?

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Any smart collection that uses that template will fail because:

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| Collection Error: collection_order does not work with Smart Collections

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The collection at line 44 doesn't appear in that log.

humble pewter Oct 13, 2025, 10:25 PM

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Ya, the second yaml file. (moviecollections.yml). I was trying out the smart collection, i read that Kometa doesn't need to run everytime to update those particular collections, whcih would be handy for recently added/released.

    sort_title: '-03_' 
    visible_home: true
    visisble_shared: true 
    smart_filter:
      all:
        added: 90
      sort_by: added.desc```
Not sure why it wouldn't be in the log, it's been in the config for awhile, so Kometa has for sure ran since I added it.

chrome magnet Oct 13, 2025, 10:28 PM

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All I can do is read the log, and there is no mention of it in that log above. Uppercase "TEST" appears only once:

chrome magnet Oct 13, 2025, 10:29 PM

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humble pewter Ya, the second yaml file. (moviecollections.yml). I was trying out the smart col...

That collection definition doesn't match the one in moviecollections.yml:

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That log does contain a collection named "", which doesn't match the definition found in moviecollections.yml as provided above.

The log contains a smart collection definition:

|                     Recently Added Movies (Last 30 Days) Collection in Movies
|==============================================================================
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|================================ Building Definition From Templates ==========
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| Templates Called: standard
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|==================================== Final Template Attributes ===============
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| {'collection_order': 'custom', 'sync_mode': 'sync', 'visible_library': True, 'visible_shared': False} |
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|==================== Validating Recently Added Movies (Last 30 Days) Attributes
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| Looking for: Recently Added Movies (Last 30 Days)
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| Validating Method: sync_mode
| Value: sync
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| Validating Method: smart_filter
| Value: {'limit': 100, 'all': {'added': 30}, 'sort_by': 'added.desc'}
| Smart URL: ?type=1&limit=100&sort=addedAt%3Adesc&addedAt%3E%3E=-30d
| Traceback (most recent call last):
...
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| Collection Error: collection_order does not work with Smart Collections
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|==============================================================================
|                      Finished Recently Added Movies (Last 30 Days) Collection
|                                    Collection Run Time: 0:00:00

The moviescollections.yml version isn't a smart collection:

  Recently Added Movies (Last 30 Days):
    template: 
      name: standard   
    plex_search:
      added: 90
    collection_order: release
    sort_title: '-03_'
    visible_home: true
    visible_shared: true    
    summary: Movies added in the last month... 
    file_theme:
      config/assets/movies/collections/categories/Recently Added/theme.mp3

So this moviecollections.yml attached to this thread is not the same one that was used to generate that log.

chrome magnet Oct 13, 2025, 10:39 PM

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humble pewter Ya, the second yaml file. (moviecollections.yml). I was trying out the smart col...

I don't see anything here that would prevent this collection from updating automatically without Kometa running. My own "recently added movies" looks basically just like this.

I can't offer anything else, though, since this collection doesn't appear in the log, and the YAML file you've provided what does contain the definition does not appear to be the one that was in use when that log was generated.

humble pewter Oct 13, 2025, 10:50 PM

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Very stange. I've updated Kometa so I'll run collections only and see what happens.

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oh oh..I got a warning/error after updating and I have 0 idea how to fix it.

  import pkg_resources```

chrome magnet Oct 13, 2025, 10:54 PM

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You need to update the requirements.

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The moviecollections.yml that was run in that log above contains these 11 collections:

|                              Running moviecollections Collection File
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|                    Recently Released Movies (Last 90 Days) Collection in Movies
|                     Recently Added Movies (Last 30 Days) Collection in Movies
|                                 Plex Popular Collection in Movies
|                                 Plex Watched Collection in Movies
|                                 IMDb Popular Collection in Movies
|                                 IMDb Top 250 Collection in Movies
|                          Top 50 Grossing of All Time Collection in Movies
|                                Oscar Nominess Collection in Movies
|                                 Oscar Winners Collection in Movies
|                   Best Motion Picture Award (Last 50 Years) Collection in Movies
|                               Omega Collection Collection in Movies

while the moviecollections.yml above contains 12:

collections:
  Recently Released Movies (Last 360 Days):
  Recently Added Movies (Last 30 Days):
  Recently Added Movies - TEST:
  Plex Popular:
  Plex Watched:
  IMDb Popular:
  IMDb Top 250:
  Top 50 Grossing of All Time:
  Oscar Nominess:
  Oscar Winners:
  Best Motion Picture Award (Last 50 Years):
  Omega Collection:

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This wouldn't have anything to do with Kometa updates. If it were reading the twelve and skipping one of them, that one would still be mentioned in the log.

humble pewter Oct 13, 2025, 11:01 PM

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I reran the Kometa update, including the requirements and rran into this:

WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -etuptools (c:\users\user\kometa\kometa-venv\lib\site-packages)

chrome magnet Oct 13, 2025, 11:05 PM

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never seen that before

humble pewter Oct 13, 2025, 11:05 PM

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i've never touched any files in there either

chrome magnet Oct 13, 2025, 11:06 PM

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What does "reran the Kometa update" mean? What specifically did you do?

humble pewter Oct 13, 2025, 11:08 PM

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I ran

cd C:\Users\User\Kometa
git stash
git stash clear
git pull
.\kometa-venv\Scripts\activate
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt```

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Then I hit enter after to install requirements as it prompted and I got the above warning.

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I have folders is C:\Users\User\Kometa\kometa-venv\Lib\site-packages named:

~etuptools
~etuptools-78.1.0.dist-info
~kg_resources
~distutils_hack

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apparently created in march.. clearly an old version.

the proper setuptools folders in \Lib\site-packages are:

setuptools
setuptools-80.9.0.dist-info

chrome magnet Oct 13, 2025, 11:59 PM

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I'd delete all those stray folders that start with a tilde

humble pewter Oct 14, 2025, 2:05 AM

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I figured, but didn't want to without your go ahead. Still dunno where they came from. Oh well.

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Alrighty, i deleted all of the tilde ones, but it threw up a small error about one of the distro ones, so i only deleted the ~eteuptools ones instead. Ran smooth, now trying a collections only run, HOPEFULLY the Holiday and Smart collection shows up this time.

humble pewter Oct 14, 2025, 4:09 AM

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Well, Got the holiday collections working, just not that smart collection

chrome magnet Oct 14, 2025, 12:41 PM

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I suspect you have two copies of that yaml file and Kometa is not pointed at the one you expect.

Can you provide a log?

humble pewter Oct 14, 2025, 9:02 PM

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Got it working, spelling error. Visisible is not the same as visible apparently lol. Thanks.

quaint oceanBOT Oct 14, 2025, 11:00 PM

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antwanchild used !aenh

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