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<blockquote data-quote="Salty.dh" data-source="post: 49672" data-attributes="member: 19902"><p><strong>Rebuilding the importer</strong></p><p></p><p>So I finally got a few days off and as usual love tinkering. I've rebuilt the tv.com importer. That's the good news. The bad news is tv.com's format bites.</p><p></p><p>Not having access to the old format I can only assume this is a new problem to tv.com</p><p></p><p>Each tv show starts at episode number 1 and goes up and up and up... Season 2 might start with episode 23 or 25 or something depending on how many episodes were in the previous season. This is not helpful as all video files no longer map to the episode information because these episode numbers don't actually exist.</p><p></p><p>Further more, tv.com doesn't distinguish between specials. Take for example Prison Break. It currently has two episode 7s.</p><p></p><p>what do we do about it?</p><p></p><p>A few posts I've seen in the forums suggest using epguides.com or tviv.org</p><p></p><p>Here's my take on these:</p><p></p><p>epguides.com</p><p></p><p>- Simple format -> easy to scrape.</p><p>- Distinguishes specials from season episodes.</p><p>- Links back to tv.com for episode guides and resources.</p><p></p><p>The search in epguides is a problem. It uses a raw google search which is horrible to try and data mine. (Do a search and have a look at the source!)</p><p></p><p>Now this can be solved by using google api. The problem with this is google limits the searches to 1000 / day / developer key.</p><p></p><p>I believe google dev keys are still free so the 1000 searches can be circumvented by requesting your own google dev key and then replacing it in a config file?</p><p></p><p></p><p>tviv.org</p><p></p><p>- Simplistic approach using the wiki format as stated earlier in another post will unlikely change. Great for scraping.</p><p></p><p>- Searching is nice and easy and will scrape easily.</p><p></p><p>- Episode descriptions and resources are next to non-existent for the shows I commonly watch.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So at this stage I'm really leaning towards the google api integration into the epguides.com site for episode downloading. This site seems to maintain a fairly comprehensive and error free listing. With links back to tv.com we can then access the banners and thumbnails which WeeToddDid currently utilises.</p><p></p><p>Comments and Suggestions please!</p><p></p><p>With WeeToddDid's blessing I'll embark on the task of getting this cool plugin working again.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Salty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Salty.dh, post: 49672, member: 19902"] [b]Rebuilding the importer[/b] So I finally got a few days off and as usual love tinkering. I've rebuilt the tv.com importer. That's the good news. The bad news is tv.com's format bites. Not having access to the old format I can only assume this is a new problem to tv.com Each tv show starts at episode number 1 and goes up and up and up... Season 2 might start with episode 23 or 25 or something depending on how many episodes were in the previous season. This is not helpful as all video files no longer map to the episode information because these episode numbers don't actually exist. Further more, tv.com doesn't distinguish between specials. Take for example Prison Break. It currently has two episode 7s. what do we do about it? A few posts I've seen in the forums suggest using epguides.com or tviv.org Here's my take on these: epguides.com - Simple format -> easy to scrape. - Distinguishes specials from season episodes. - Links back to tv.com for episode guides and resources. The search in epguides is a problem. It uses a raw google search which is horrible to try and data mine. (Do a search and have a look at the source!) Now this can be solved by using google api. The problem with this is google limits the searches to 1000 / day / developer key. I believe google dev keys are still free so the 1000 searches can be circumvented by requesting your own google dev key and then replacing it in a config file? tviv.org - Simplistic approach using the wiki format as stated earlier in another post will unlikely change. Great for scraping. - Searching is nice and easy and will scrape easily. - Episode descriptions and resources are next to non-existent for the shows I commonly watch. So at this stage I'm really leaning towards the google api integration into the epguides.com site for episode downloading. This site seems to maintain a fairly comprehensive and error free listing. With links back to tv.com we can then access the banners and thumbnails which WeeToddDid currently utilises. Comments and Suggestions please! With WeeToddDid's blessing I'll embark on the task of getting this cool plugin working again. Salty. [/QUOTE]
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