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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 791613" data-attributes="member: 18896"><p>MP-TVSeries relies on TheTVdB to provide the data, but also to provide the search engine ability to verify if a show exists.</p><p></p><p>It uses the API for this and the way to lookup if a series exists is via the following format:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">[code]http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=<series_name>[/code]</p><p></p><p>Example: <strong><a href="http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Battlestar+2003" target="_blank">http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Battlestar+2003</a></strong></p><p></p><p>As you can see in the example, you do not even need to use the full title of the show, just enough keywords that will allow a proper match to occur, which for TV shows that share a title would require adding the year the show was first aired.</p><p></p><p>So you can either perfectly match whatever <SeriesName>...</SeriesName> shows, or use less words. If MP-TVSeries gets multiple results back, it will show this either via drop down box in config wizard, or via dialog inside GUI.</p><p></p><p>Example: <strong><a href="http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Battlestar" target="_blank">http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Battlestar</a></strong></p><p></p><p>The <firstaired> expression option is meant for Episode matching based on the original airdate the episode was first aired (as per TheTVdB episode airdate info). So you need to focus on just the title and include the year info in that one if there are other shows out with same title.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 791613, member: 18896"] MP-TVSeries relies on TheTVdB to provide the data, but also to provide the search engine ability to verify if a show exists. It uses the API for this and the way to lookup if a series exists is via the following format: [indent][code]http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=<series_name>[/code][/indent] Example: [b][url]http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Battlestar+2003[/url][/b] As you can see in the example, you do not even need to use the full title of the show, just enough keywords that will allow a proper match to occur, which for TV shows that share a title would require adding the year the show was first aired. So you can either perfectly match whatever <SeriesName>...</SeriesName> shows, or use less words. If MP-TVSeries gets multiple results back, it will show this either via drop down box in config wizard, or via dialog inside GUI. Example: [b][url]http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Battlestar[/url][/b] The <firstaired> expression option is meant for Episode matching based on the original airdate the episode was first aired (as per TheTVdB episode airdate info). So you need to focus on just the title and include the year info in that one if there are other shows out with same title. [/QUOTE]
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