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When I click on "Get Birth Years" I more often than not get the error:

"The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable."

Nah, serious. In previous versions I automatically grabbed the birth years. But at some point the IMDb server shuts down with the above mentioned 503. I assume I query too many pages in too short a time. I tried to insert artificial delays but it didn't help.

Funny how this was already an issue in 2009 with a different error code. 

It worked the first time, but on the second blu-ray set it threw a 403 Forbidden error...

Can you give me an example movie / show?

I'm not sure how much more I can do at the moment

In Settings > Parsing > People > Links there's an option to check for redirects.

Try to disable that, it sends a lot of requests to IMDb that most of the time aren't necessary.

The original idea of the feature was that sometimes more unknown actors get more than one IMDb page and when someone figures out that they're the same person, they get merged and one page points to the other. And CCE2 was trying to find these to let you know that two people might be the same. But try it without that feature.

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In Settings > Parsing > People > Links there's an option to check for redirects.

Try to disable that, it sends a lot of requests to IMDb that most of the time aren't necessary.

The original idea of the feature was that sometimes more unknown actors get more than one IMDb page and when someone figures out that they're the same person, they get merged and one page points to the other. And CCE2 was trying to find these to let you know that two people might be the same. But try it without that feature.

that link setting fixed it for me after getting the newest version as well.  i was trying to get Andor cast

Oh man, I have a bad feeling Maybe I messed something up in the past but I'm usually careful not to. The first movie I've parsed with the new version had a changed name that didn't match with my database:

Crew-Mitglied "David Smith" (nm6242759):
Alt: David    Smith
Neu: David W. Smith

that guy is in my DB as David E. Smith (fake BY 7897)

Edit: David E. and David W. aren't the same guys. Sorry about that. But still a inconsistency in my DB. He is in it as Dave Smith credited always as David Smith (7862) So I was missing a past name change from Dave to David I guess.

It's confusing as F! E. and W. also sometimes are in the same movies together doing the same thing, Jason goes to hell for example:

David E. Smith ... effects crew: K.N.B. Effects Group
David W. Smith ... effects crew: K.N.B. Effects Group (as David Smith)

So probably I was confused in the past already and messed my own DB up.

Every time I start the program, it gives me a notice that there's a new version available (2.1.20.8), but when I go to the download page it's still on 2.1.10.7.