rajdedhia10/imdbincontextmenu

Program to automate the searching of a movie on IMDb that you have on your system

IMDb-in-ContextMenu:cinema:

Simple program to add Search on IMDb to your Windows 10 Context Menu to automate the task of searching for IMDb page of a movie that you have on your computer

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• What is this
• Installation
• FAQs
• Bugs
• Probable Feature Additions
• Credits
• License

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What is this ❓

A simple program that searches for IMDb page of a movie on your computer in just a couple of clicks.
You just need to right click on the media file of the movie and click the Search on IMDb button.
A new tab will be opened on your browser and the movie's page will be searched for on IMDb.

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Installation 🔧

1. Download the preferred varient from the Download Link
   (Check FAQs section for guidance regarging varient)
2. Extract the downloaded zip file to D:\IMDbinContextMenu
   Note: You can extract to any location you wish but you need the make changes to the AddToRegistry.reg and search.bat file eg. If you extract to C:\Users\YourUsername\Downloads then your files should look like this AddToRegistry.reg line 7:

   @="\"C:\\Users\\YourUsername\\Downloads\\search.bat\" \"%1\""
   

   search.bat line 1:
   py method:

   python "C:\\Users\\YourUsername\\Downloads\\search.py" %1
   

   exe method:

   "C:\\Users\\YourUsername\\Downloads\\search.exe" %1
   

3. Double click on the AddToRegistry.reg file and follow the steps onscreen to add the registry entry
4. Done, as simple as that

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FAQs 🙋

• Why does this exist?
  A. Looking up a movie that you have on your system on IMDb in a lengthy process. This program exists to automate the process to just a couple of clicks.

• What varient should I download?
  A. Py varient if you have Python installed on your system exe varient if you do not have python installed on your system

• How to uninstall the program?
  A. Click on Start -> Type regedit -> Press Enter on Registry Editor -> Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Run script -> Delete Run script

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Bugs 🪲

* The program fails when year of the movie is enclosed in brackets eg: Movie.Name.(1999).720p.10bit.mp4
Fixed. Thanks to amogh-w

Probable Feature Additions 🤔

Search on multiple Rating websites at once such as Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes etc.

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Credits ✨

Auto PY to EXE is used to convert the python file to exe file

For any doubts or suggestions you may Contact me on Telegram @rajdedhia10

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License 📄

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details