Media Scraping fix for ":"-symbol

Issue #4245 new
Former user created an issue

Problem with ":"-symbol : Games with a/several subtitle/s (i.e. subheading) have a hard time gettinginfo when scraped.

Example: I have a game titled "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Dark Motives", it does not show up during scraping.

By using the gamesdb.launchbox-app.com database I found out:

Searching for with the full title (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Dark Motives), I get no result

Searching with the second subtitle (Crime Scene Investigation), I get too many results

Searching with the 3rd/last subtitle (Dark Motives), I get the result I want!

My solution: If the game currently being scraped has a ":"-symbol, and it does not find a match in the database using the full name, Then instead search for each induvidual subheadings, Starting from the back of the full title. (Clarification: If the game has a total of 3 titles; 1 main title and 2 subtitles, start from the 2nd subtitle and move back through the 1st subtitle, and lastly the main title)

The last subtitle seems to give best result.

#More examples of games having this problem: "Bubsy 3D: Furbitten Planet", For PS1

 Full name   = No result         Bubsy 3D: Furbitten Planet
 2nd title   = No result         Furbitten Planet
 1st title   = Right result      Bubsy 3D

"Classic Action: Devilish", For NDS

 Full name   = No result        Classic Action: Devilish
 2nd title   = Right result     Devilish
 1st title   = Too many results Classic Action

"dissidia 012: duodecim Final Fantasy", For NDS

 Full name   = No result         dissidia 012: duodecim Final Fantasy
 2nd title   = Right result      duodecim Final Fantasy
 1st title   = Right results(2)  dissidia 012

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