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How to force scrape a specific show from multiple with the same name in thetvdb - sess - 2019-04-07
So I have an anime show that has two entries in TheTvDB due to releases in different countries - it's kind of a mess because episodes were heavily cut and merged into four DVDs for a swedish release, while the original japanese has 21 episodes. One of the TheTVDB entries sets up the DVDs as specials which is a good idea, but I can't get KODI to select that entry.
When I select what show to use, two "Silver fang" shows up, but both leads to https://www.thetvdb.com/series/silver-fang-1. What I would like to use is https://www.thetvdb.com/series/silver-fang. I've tried all entries available searching for both the english and japanese title, I've tried adding a show NFO that uses the correct thetvdb id, and I've tried manually editing the mysql db with the correct thetvdb id but that doesn't refresh show and episode information.
Is there any solution to this? Some way to select show by Id rather than only name sounds like the most reasonable way if it's possible.
https://i.imgur.com/ZXTQV3Z.png
RE: How to force scrape a specific show from multiple with the same name in thetvdb - Karellen - 2019-04-07
(2019-04-07, 11:01)sess Wrote: I've tried adding a show NFO that uses the correct thetvdb id,You don't use the tvdb id. You paste the url of the show. Add the following to the nfo file...
https://www.thetvdb.com/series/silver-fang
RE: How to force scrape a specific show from multiple with the same name in thetvdb - sess - 2019-04-07
(2019-04-07, 11:33)Karellen Wrote:(2019-04-07, 11:01)sess Wrote: I've tried adding a show NFO that uses the correct thetvdb id,You don't use the tvdb id. You paste the url of the show. Add the following to the nfo file...
https://www.thetvdb.com/series/silver-fang
I tried setting both <id> and <episodeguide> (thats contains an url to the show) - are you referring to episodeguide or another tag? And If I got that working, would it scrape the rest from the site? After tinkering a bit with nfo files I assumed KODI uses them instead of scraping rather than as a base for scraping and gave up.
RE: How to force scrape a specific show from multiple with the same name in thetvdb - Karellen - 2019-04-07
(2019-04-07, 11:48)sess Wrote: I tried setting both <id> and <episodeguide> (thats contains an url to the show) - are you referring to episodeguide or another tag?No, you don't need any of that.
Read here the types of NFO Files that Kodi uses... https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files#Types_of_nfo
You are going to use the Parsing NFO File.
Create an empty file named tvshow.nfo (that is the actual name). Simply paste the URL of the tv show in there as I described in my previous post. Now scan/scrape into the library.
RE: How to force scrape a specific show from multiple with the same name in thetvdb - sess - 2019-04-07
(2019-04-07, 11:54)Karellen Wrote:(2019-04-07, 11:48)sess Wrote: I tried setting both <id> and <episodeguide> (thats contains an url to the show) - are you referring to episodeguide or another tag?No, you don't need any of that.
Read here the types of NFO Files that Kodi uses... https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files#Types_of_nfo
You are going to use the Parsing NFO File.
Create an empty file named tvshow.nfo (that is the actual name). Simply paste the URL of the tv show in there as I described in my previous post. Now scan/scrape into the library.
Ahh i'm trying to create the wrong type of NFO! This works great, and will be very useful for other series to. Thank you so much!
How to force scrape a specific show from multiple with the same name in thetvdb - Karellen - 2019-04-07
Fantastic!!
Thread marked solved.