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Thursday, April 25th, 2024 4:12 PM

Search by character names in Advanced Title Search

  We’re pleased to share that you can now search for a character in Advanced Title Search. With the re-introduction of this functionality, you will see all the Titles in which a character appears when you search for them by name. Long-time IMDb users may remember previous versions of character-based search; with this launch, we are reintroducing the functionality in an improved form, built on our redesigned Advanced Search feature. To get started, go to Advanced Title Search (imdb.com/search), open the section labeled “Characters” on the left side of the page, and enter the name of a character you’d like to find.   - The IMDb Team  

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Hooray for character search! So when you specify 2 characters, the logic is OR?  This search for "indiana jones" and "bugs bunny" yields 991 results. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=!tv_series&characters=indiana%20jones,bugs%20bunny&count=250&sort=release_date,asc I would think AND would be more useful, and a way to specify AND/OR would be best, on any parameter, not just characters. I tried inserting ! before "indiana" in the url, and nothing different came back. So NOT isn't supported?

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@bderoes​ 😀 Add "Find: Exact matches" ?? .

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Hi @bderoes​ - In this case the current logic is "Or".  In the meantime, thanks for the feedback, I have relayed the comments to the team who will review for future improvement considerations.

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10 months ago

Searching on a character, as you describe above, only seem to list roles with the same name. Ex. for "Jack Ryan" it will not only list movies and tv-show with "Jack Ryan" (the Tom Clancy fictional character), but every other movies and tv-shows sharing the same name as well. I made a suggestion on a different post (see below, regarding a "character"-page). A unique character-page would be great linking together movies and tv-show, but also photos, quoutes and various info about one specific character. In my head, the actual info is already on IMDb, its just about organizing and linking it together. https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/character-page/6661c064cdd073118e79186f?commentId=6661c9c2cf3b184ed2631705&replyId=666ae07ee2a02b53429f7df2

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This search yields 89 results https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?characters=jack%20ryan This search yields 120, with some same titles visible: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?role=nm0002007 Yet this yields no results: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?role=nm0002007&characters=jack%20ryan Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled advanced title search returns no results for "jack ryan" and "tom clancy"

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@bderoes​ We will confirm with the search team, but it appears that when performing a character search, only acting credits are considered in the "Cast or crew" filter.  For proof, this works fine and as expected -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?role=nm0000148&characters=jack%20ryan 

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... and to further restrict to movies in which Harrison Ford played Jack Ryan -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&role=nm0000148&characters=jack%20ryan or movies where Roger Moore played James Bond -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&role=nm0000549&characters=James%20Bond&sort=year,desc 

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@Col_Needham​ But that restriction means that ATS will not find all the actors who played a role created by a particular writer. Is that really a limitation you want? It reduces ATS to doing what a user can do with ctrl-F on the Actor's page.

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@bderoes​ I did not say that is what we wanted, merely how it appears to be behaving :-)

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Bummer.

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@bderoes​ A quick update on this … the restriction to actors/actresses is the intended behaviour, however, we are discussing a better option which would fix things both here and in the more general case. 

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8 months ago

Should display the character matches in the search results.

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@Peter_pbn​ Yes, we agree (and the same with the ATS topic searches for trivia/quotes/etc).  It is on the list, however,  we have a growing backlog of issues at the moment due to capacity constraints, so it may take a while.