Contributor tips: Magic URLs

These I've barely used in the year or so since I bookmarked them yet (my bookmarks are now in a random order, and there's no way to reverse it back into date order on Microsoft Edge), but after noticing the way that search or advanced search links are written, I realised that you could add or replace almost anything in the link to get even more specific results.

Here's a link for HBO Max shows, in the TV Movie/TV Series/TV Special/TV Mini-Series/Documentary/TV Short types, which were produced in the UK

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0754095&countries=GB&title_type=tv_movie,tv_series,tv_special,tv_miniseries,documentary,tv_short

Here's a link for ITV shows, in the Drama genre, which were release between the 1st of January 2000 and the 31st of December 2010 

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?release_date=2000-01-01,2010-12-31&genres=drama&companies=co0015194&sort=year,asc

Here's a link for Short Films/TV Shorts which were produced in the UK, and filmed in the City of Bradford

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=short,tv_short&countries=gb&locations=bradford&ref_=adv_prv

I mainly wanted these type of filters to change companies as only 20th Century Fox, Sony, DreamWorks, MGM, Paramount, Universal, Walt Disney, and Warner Bros. are listed as options, but also mainly to filter countries, which is actually listed as an option, so I did a search with one of the standard companies listed above, and replaced the company number.

There's a possible 120+ companies whose productions I want to look through eventually, as they are all current names, former names or abbreviations of the 14+ ITV franchises (not to mention the countless more production companies they own today) where roughly 99% of them should have ITV listed as a distributor.

ITV is the network, which has a channel of the same name (among many more modern channels), where practically all of those ITV franchise shows and films were broadcast on, but as I've noticed a lot over the years, before I even joined IMDB and started editing properly, most of them seem to have ITV missing as a distributor.

That top-tips page has been very helpful to me.

I tend to contribute opera dvds to IMDb, and don't record every credit. So I use this when I create the title, since it opens all the boxes I need for the Add.

https://contribute.imdb.com/updates?update=title:music_department.add.3/miscellaneous.add.1/business_sd.add.1/writers.add.2/running_times.add.1/keywords.add.1/technical_rat.add.1/locations.add.1/

Thanks both, these are great!

There are some current data sections which are not included in the list on the help page. These seem to work:

script_department

sales_agents

series_end_year

synopsis

location_management is listed in the first list for titles, but not in the second list for names.

There may be additional codes for contact details and family details.

These listed codes don't seem to work since the sections are no longer available:

title_attr Title Attributes

naka Alternative Names

bio_wn Where Are They Now?

And though you say it works with a company code, this option isn't mentioned in the help page.

Thanks Peter I've made those changes now, including additional contact detail options and family details. Although the company codes do work for some data types, I think they've purposefully been left off of the guide for precautionary reasons. I'll amend my post above.

For IMDb title pages bereft of a lot of basic information, I've been known to visit script-generated queries of the form /updates?update=tt*:cast.correct.all/cast.add.10/production_companies.correct/production_companies.add5/running_times.correct/running_times.add.1/sound_mix.correct/sound_mix.add.1/outlines.correct/outlines.add.1/plot.correct/keywords.correct.all/keywords.add.20/soundtracks.correct/soundtracks.add.10/title_urls_msc.correct/title_urls_msc.add.2/title_urls_off.correct/title_urls_off.add.2/title_urls_mov.correct/title_urls_mov.add.2/title_urls_tra.correct/title_urls_tra.add.2/business_cp.correct/business_cp.add.3/technical_rat.correct/technical_rat.add.1/technical_cam.correct/technical_cam.add.1 along with several dozen others that might not be infeasible to list here. The combinations number in the billions, I guess. I achieve this via RegEx-involved DOM-manipulating bookmarklets mainly. IMDb name pages, and likewise brand pages, have some sections that can only be viewed or edited when an IMDbPro subscription is active. On this forum, sometimes I post magic URLs (i.e. hyperlinks to specific submission forms) when explaining to prospective contributors where and how to submit corrections on data types of interest to them.

Thanks jeorj_euler, that one looks pretty comprehensive! Thanks for sharing.