Problem importing 'X:enius' series. (1 Viewer)

[Data45000]

Hello there,

i have a problem. Your plugin dont load a serie. http://thetvdb.com/index.php?tab=series&id=269470&lid=14

I dont know why. Can you fix this problem please?

 

[ajs]

I dont know why. Can you fix this problem please?

No English translation, add the site and then import will work.

 

[RoChess]

i have a problem. Your plugin dont load a serie. http://thetvdb.com/index.php?tab=series&id=269470&lid=14

The problem is with TheTVdB website. They do not offer any way to locate that show called "X:enius" via their API. Reason being is the ':' character that throws things off as it is a reserved filename character for Windows OS (and others).

These all fail:

• http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Xenius
• http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=X+enius
• http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=X.enius

So you need to contact TheTVdB on their forum and ask them if they can look into it. They need to convert the ':' character to allow for a search indirectly; most obvious one would be to strip it, so one can look for "Xenius". Can be solved by fixing their API or simply adding 'Xenius' as alternative title to the database. Only TheTVdB mods and/or admins can do that, so you need to contact them. Once they fix it, then within a short time it will automatically work for MP-TVSeries.

 

[Data45000]

The answer from the TVDB Forum:

There's nothing to fix. If the series name is entered correctly and your scraper isn't capable of processing it due to a colon then you will need to contact the developer and inquire about a fix. We don't incorrectly edit series names to work around bugs in other people's software.

 

[Edalex]

The answer from the TVDB Forum:

There's nothing to fix. If the series name is entered correctly and your scraper isn't capable of processing it due to a colon then you will need to contact the developer and inquire about a fix. We don't incorrectly edit series names to work around bugs in other people's software.

They know that api search is sucks as I remember.
Obviously that hikaricore didn't understand that the problem in not in the mp-tvseries.

 

[RoChess]

The answer from the TVDB Forum:

There's nothing to fix. If the series name is entered correctly and your scraper isn't capable of processing it due to a colon then you will need to contact the developer and inquire about a fix. We don't incorrectly edit series names to work around bugs in other people's software.

Tell them to give you the TheTVdB API instructions then to make it work. Even adding a colon does not give any usable results as per:

http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=X:enius​

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And that is *their* system failing, not MP-TVSeries.

 

[Data45000]

Answer from site admin

That's not true. Our site works just fine with colons and can return X:enius using our API. The problem is MP doesn't allow you to search for a series with a colon in it.
Example: http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.ph ... anguage=de

I did add Xenius as a hidden AKA though, so now it can match to Xenius but still return "X:enius". Just to be clear MP can add support for colons on their end if they want to, it gets awkward for them though since they get their names off file names and many file systems don't allow colons. We however fully support colons on our end.

But now it is found!!!!

 

[ltfearme]

Funny how they say it works fine after they fixed it

 

[RoChess]

LOL, the API search that failed all this time, now magically works, and they keep insisting it was MP-TVSeries fault.

I did add English description yesterday, then their system freaked out on me for not specifying an English title (thought that was only needed when title was different from the existing entry). And now when visiting http://thetvdb.com/index.php?tab=series&id=269470 it seems they fixed that title part and now things magically work again.

So perhaps their API (search part anyway) only really works on entries that have an English definition set, even when the show is purely foreign. This does mean in the future anybody with a TheTVdB account can correct this by adding an English entry. Unless the real fix was them adding the hidden entry and it is just a big coincidence. Guess we will have to wait till the next show that does not work

@ltfearme, do they perhaps allow you to 'set' the language during API searches, because only the 'English' entry is returned on the search. Not sure if it is easy to locate a show that does not have any English info.

 

[ltfearme]

I think they allow language for search but we default to all so we get them all back.