Add export function for title page full credits

Earlier, I used to be able to copy the whole list from "Full cast & crew" of any TV Show into an Excel sheet. They would perfectly copy in their own columns from where I could easily edit/remove data as needed. However, this has changed. How do I go back, or is there another solution? What does this mean, right? Let's take an example Dark Blue (2009-10) When I viewed the entire cast & crew list on 8th April 2025, I could copy the whole list, right-click on it, and use the option "Match Destination Formatting" or simply copy as text (paste special) I would have got Col A - Actor Name Col B- Actor Name Col C - ... Col D - Character Name with # of episodes and years in parenthesis However, now I get everything in one column Why? Isn't there an easier way for me to get the entire cast & crew in something like the "reference view" mode in IMDB? Actor Name in Col A, B ... in Col C,

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Col_Needham

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@lizwren We have converted this into an Idea post so other customers can vote and comment upon it. The better solution for this is to support the export of this data via the same means as list exports. As was the case with /name/fullcredits and explained at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/add-a-contributor-text-view-for-name-credits/66a02b1e79828c791e7a0f6e?commentId=66a02cd39ab2194ecb03b89c&replyId=66a0e5284a39ff190e7116fd you might find it easier to cut-and-paste from the contribution interface for the title instead. However, in your specific case of exporting the summarised cast from TV-shows, the contribution interface does not include the summarised cast data. It will work for movies though. Alternatively, it should work (for now) in /title/reference which you can opt-in to via https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general — a warning though: this page is over 15 years old and lacks many features of the regular title pages. You could always not op-in and manually edit the URL whenever you want to cut-and-paste the information. In your example, change the URL from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319636/ to https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319636/reference Hope this helps.

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Ideas! Sure. It's just that it was possible before the Full Credits page was revamped. I get how ideas work. It depends upon but is not limited to votes, backlogs, devs' pov & overall ROI of IMDB. Before, I could select the entire "Cast" section on the "Full cast & crew" page for any given "TV Show" and they would come over in their respective columns. 4 columns total For instance, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7587890/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_2#cast 1st column - Character Name with episode count & years i.e., Wade Grey109 episodes, 2018-2024 2nd column - Real Name 3rd column - Separator (...) 4th column - Real Name again I could then easily manage data so that I would get Col A - Character Name along with episode count and years (Wade Grey109 episodes, 2018-2024) Col B - Real Name (Richard T. Jones) I wonder if there is a way to add screenshots here. Contribution interface is too-limited Reference view! Yep, that's what I have been doing. Rather than change the view account-wide, I just edit the URL. As for the rest of the data, I copy the entire "Cast" data from "Full Cast & crew" section and manage them outside one by one as needed. I haven't been able to figure out an easier way. I just need 1) Character name along with episodes count and years in one column 2) Real name in another column Hope that helps.

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I maintain a private--no one sees it but me--Access database of movies I've seen and movies to be seen. For umpteen years, when I copied and pasted data such as actors, producers, etc. from IMDB to Word for cleanup before adding to the database, it pasted into a neat, clean table. Then it didn't do that anymore: the data was pasted with a hard return after each field, the least messy paste arrived if I selected Keep Text Only. After many frustrating weeks, I discovered that if I changed to Reference View the data again pasted into table. Much to my dismay, it didn't work one day: back to field data followed by a hard return--very messy, inconsistent, and hard to clean up. To prep that format in order to use Word's Convert Text to Table is a lot of work because sometimes there is one field for the actor's name, sometimes two. Word requires setting the number of columns for the table for import into the table. If the data doesn't paste with a consistent number of fields, I have to hand edit with an extra hard return for those that only paste with one actor name. How can I copy data from IMDB to a Word table to facilitate cleaning it before moving it to my database. Many thanks in advance. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation Link : https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/copy-data-to-word-table-format/684358d833343b5c15757456 Title : Copy Data to Word Table Format

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@DLK You may have better luck by clicking the “Edit page” button and cutting and pasting from the contribution interface instead. Hope this helps.

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Appreciate the suggestion, but selecting Edit page, Cast, Correct/Delete produces a table, but unless I'm missing something, copying and pasting from the table also produces a hard return after each field. Also, if it is a series, such as Resident Alien, the episode information column is blank: no number of episodes nor year. And, worst of all, all of the cast isn't displayed. Worst yet, doing the same thing for Lost, there is no cast at all! Besides, it makes me a little anxious to have the information in editable mode in case I get happy fingers on the keyboard and make an inadvertent change. Too much pressure!

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We have merged your post into an existing Idea thread for future consideration and so other customers can vote and comment upon it.

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@DLK I know exactly what you are referring to ▶ https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/add-export-function-for-title-page-full-credits/67fe33ce6bafae19d42519f0?commentId=6843eefb1702be52a6df980e Private database! Same here. For the time being, I have my selected TV shows data in a nice clean format. At least for the ones I copied over before this recent makeover was applied to the reference view as well. Lemme know if someone finds a way around it

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Add export function for title page full credits

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