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XBMC Eden won't scrape certain movies
posted by tmdb85267647STAFFMOD on May 9, 2013 at 9:15 PM
Hi all.
I have a collection of about 1,500 movies, and I'm familiar with proper naming conventions and folder structures. For some reason, the TMDB 3.7.2 scraper in XBMC Eden can't seem to detect the following movies:
The Chaser 2008
I Give It A Year 2013
Side Effects 2013
Shanghai Noon 2000
Stand Up Guys 2012
Peter Pan 2003
Into the White 2012
Any suggestions why this might be? Movies are all in their own folders (The Chaser 2008->The Chaser 2008.mkv).
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 9, 2013 at 11:32 PM
Try removing the year, it was recently brought to my attention t hat XBMC does not use the year searching ability with our API.
Just so you know too, the website uses the same search so you can test everything there to verify the results you will get on the API.
https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=The+Chaser
https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=I+Give+It+A+Year
Etc...
Reply by tmdb85267647
on May 10, 2013 at 12:36 AM
Weird. On the rare occasions in the past when XBMC hasn't been able to scrape a movie from TMDB, it's because the folder/file did NOT include the year.
I'll try removing it and I'll post back. Thanks Travis.
Reply by tmdb85267647
on May 10, 2013 at 1:09 AM
That solved it -- thanks again.
Reply by tmdb85267647
on May 10, 2013 at 12:02 PM
Just a follow-up: Is this year issue with XBMC something new? Because it never seemed to be an issue in the past, especially where XBMC Eden was concerned.
I'm now using XBMC Frodo. I ran the missing movie scanner today, and it returned 85 results, all for movies that include the correct year in their title (according to TMDB). I know for a fact these movies were in my XBMC Eden library.
I suppose removing the year will fix the issue, but this just seems ... odd. I always thought that including the year in your title made for more precise and better scraping.
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 10, 2013 at 12:07 PM
Our API doesn't support adding the year to the query string anymore. The thing is, is this was never truly supported in v3 (the version XBMC is using) but did exist in 2.1 which is probably why people got used to it working. v3 has always had a discrete parameter to search for movies by year (and still does) and this has always been the way since we launched v3 over a year ago.
This is the same change on the website, so searches like Mr. 3000 and Blue Brothers 2000 now work.
XBMC can choose to support this if they want, but that's the change you're seeing. Search was recently re-written and we got rid of some of the old "hacks" that should have never been in there to begin with.
Reply by tmdb85267647
on May 10, 2013 at 12:14 PM
Ahhh, good to know. Thanks for the clarification :)
So ... I assume you recommend that I stop including the year in my folder/file structure?
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 10, 2013 at 12:23 PM
You're welcome.
Well, see this is where the line gets blurry. If XBMC decides to not handle this internally somehow, then yes. And certainly in the meantime since XBMC may or may not add the ability to search with years. That's up to them.
Hope that all makes sense.
Reply by tmdb85267647
on May 10, 2013 at 12:43 PM
Yes it does. Cheers :)