ATS: Support for "OR" searches in genres / countries and other fields

"No results." displays when searching for five (5) or more GENRES.

Please enable Search for more than four genres at once -- twenty would be nice.
Thanks!

http://www.imdb.com/search/title

Action Adventure Animation Biography Comedy Crime Documentary Drama Family Fantasy Film-Noir Game-Show History Horror Music Musical Mystery News Reality-TV Romance Sci-Fi Sport Talk-Show Thriller War Western

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Col_Needham

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8 years ago

This is because genres search works as an "and" search not an "or" search.

For example, if you check both Romance and Comedy, you are searching for titles which have both of these genres -> http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=comedy,romance&title_type=feature

When you are searching for five genres, you are asking for titles with all five selected genres NOT any one of the five selected genres. Very few titles have five genres so this is why your search returns no results.

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d_jo3ag4g9e99d2

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Oh, OK, yes, thanks for the explanation, that makes sense.

So please fix this issue and change the Genres search logic from AND to OR so that it would then work like all these other topics:

Title Type
Instant Watch Options
US Certificates
Production Status

Creeping elegance:
Enable the user to select AND or OR logic for each search topic.

At the very least, please clearly identify which topics are now AND and which topics are now OR logic since there is a confusing and frustrating mixture of both throughout all the different topics on this Advanced Title Search page.

Thanks!

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8 years ago

chrisroberts_637462

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6 years ago

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled ATS: or vs. and & | in advanced IMDb search.

in the advanced search they used to support using the | symbol between genre's in the search.

example: http://www.imdb.com/search/title?count=100&genres=action|adventure|biography|comedy|crime|docume...

now that gives me a an error. If I want to see all the movies in all genre's that meet my criteria I need an OR | not an AND &

please bring this feature back, I used it often. if I select all the genres by checkboxes it only shows me movies that fit all the genres which is NONE.

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yak_6981194

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6 years ago

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled ATS: Support "or" for genres.

Please allow multiple "Genre" to be selected in the "Advanced Title Search."

Example: "Adventure" *OR* "Drama"

(OR logic, rather than AND logic)

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tom_harrington

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6 years ago

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled ATS: Add OR/NOT options to advanced title search.

It would be great if advanced searches had an "or" option.For instance, right now I can do an advanced title search on films whose genres are "romance" AND "horror," but I can't search for films that are "romance" OR "horror," or "romance" NOT "horror."

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longtalker

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6 years ago

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled ATS: Advanced search by several countries (OR rather than AND).

Hello,I wanted to search for European comedies of the 1960s, and so had selected several European countries from the Countries box, thinking that the operator in between all selected countries is OR. It turns out it's actually AND, which is why I was getting zero results, since no film was made between ALL of those countries.A good way to improve this search form would be to make the Countries selection box work not just as "all" countries selected (AND operator, as it is now), but also as as "any" country from those selected (OR logical operator).

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dakselron

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1 year ago

For everyone, who have the same problem with genres - there is a workaround! Though it's not obvious from the UI, the engine actually supports excluding genres by specifying "!" before them, like "...&genres=drama,!horror&" which would show you all of the drama titles, that are not horrors. In the UI, you can do it only for Documentary and Short genres, but luckily internally it works for all of them. So this way, if you want to search for multiple genres using OR logic, you just need to include all of the other genres with this negative filter, and you will get the desired results.

But for developers, it would be much better if you include this support in the UI - especially considering that you don't need to change anything in back-end. All you have to do, is to include two panels with genre buttons, but make the second add genres to the filter with exclamation mark, so let's hope this issue will be fixed soon.

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casin3

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2 months ago

in 1 place https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_series,tv_miniseries,tv_movie,short&release_date=2000-01-01,2000-12-31&genres=!documentary&countries=AF,DZ,AM,AZ,BH,BD,BT,BUMM,KH,CN,EG,GE,HK,IN,ID,IR,IQ,IL,JP,JO,KZ,XKO,KW,KG,LA,LB,LY,MO,MY,MN,MA,MM,NP,KP,MK,VDVN,PK,XPI,PS,PH,QA,SA,SG,LK,SY,TW,TJ,TH,TN,TR,TM,AE,UZ,VN,YE&sound_mixes=12_track_digital_sound,3_channel_stereo,4_track_stereo,6_track_stereo,70_mm_6_track,aga_sound_system,auro_11.1,cds,chronophone,cinematophone,cinephone,cinerama_7_track,cinesound,d_cinema_48khz_5.1,digitrac_digital_audio_system,dolby,dolby_atmos,dolby_digital,dolby_digital_ex,dolby_sr,datasat,dolby_stereo,dolby_surround_7.1,dts,dts_stereo,dts_70_mm,dts_es,imax_6_track,lc_concept_digital_sound,kinoplasticon,matrix_surround,sonics_ddp,sonix,ultra_stereo,vitaphone,stereo,sensurround,perspecta_stereo,sdds,phono_kinema,de_forest_phonofilm,mono&sort=release_date,asc
but so far there is only a combination of countries maybe it used to be and removed the function on the link can be restored?

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled make it possible to search several unrelated countries at the same time example link I want to watch movies from my favorite countries

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argman

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9 days ago

Hello there My problem is that when searching for a criteria (specially "My lists"), we can't search with "either" method. For instance, if I want to search for films that are either in my "Fav actors" or "Arabic films" lists, I can't, because the search will show only the results with BOTH Arabic films AND Fav actors. I will have to search for each one separately, which is not a big job if it is the only job, but I face this many times daily, ALWAYS. Also, you cannot exclude something from the search. For instance, if I want to exclude the French Language or Black & White Films from the search, I simply can't! A more advanced search where we can choose tailormade conditions would be perfect, like an equation. For example, in the Language section, I can choose to: "ONLY films in Spanish AND (English OR Arabic) NOT German" The results will be exclusively Spanish films that must have English OR Arabic as an extra language and must not have German in it. The example is to show the way, and it is not a good example of why it is important. Use cases: - Someone wants to watch a rom-com but not only rom-com, he wants some action or thrilling to it, but he does NOT want horror movies in the results. - Someone wants to check out the films produced by ANY big Hollywood studio (not only either one or all of them, like the case now). However, he does not want to see independent films results also. endless use cases can be mentioned if you require me to, but I hope you got my point. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation Link : https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/adding-the-or-and-filtering-tools-in-advanced-search/67e1f1dbb7ace50024267e82 Title : Adding the "or" & "and" filtering tools in advanced search

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Col_Needham

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We have merged your suggestion into the existing idea for and/or searches. However, not (exclusions) are already supported -- they just require a manual edit to the search URL. For example, here's an ATS for movies with a location of France: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&locations=france If you want to exclude movies in the French language from this list, first restrict the search to only those with the French language: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&locations=France&languages=fr To now exclude titles ith the French language, manually insert a "!" ahead of this parameter in the URL, as in: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&locations=france&languages=!fr The "!" can be added to any parameter in an advanced search query to exclude titles which match that parameter. Hope this helps.

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9 days ago

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ATS: Support for "OR" searches in genres / countries and other fields

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