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Thanks for the update, Zarbis.
I can understand why the ANN scraper does not find some TVDB posters. It is because the "Include Alternative Titles..." option is only for the fanart. I did not include this option for the banners/posters since it might put too much stress on TVDB, as there was no way to cache those search pages.
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Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, this just made my life SO much easier, having 600GB of anime was making it a ball buster to get it into xmbc.
THANKS again,
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EMK0
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i keep getting this for all my episodes
DEBUG: could not enumerate file smb://192.168.1.121/Anime/Naruto/[ANBU-AonE]_Naruto_02_[F40F1F44].avi
what do i need to do to make this work ?
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Thanks for this the Movie version works just fine now.
However when using the tvshow version and some custom regex's it detects the episodes and numbers them in the library but it does not seem to download actual episode names. Is this normal?
thanks
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What do you mean custom regex? Is the episode name listed on ANN?
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Because I do not want to rename all my anime I have custom Regex in Advancedsettings.xml so that xbmc detects each episode number.
Anyway the problem I have seems to be that the scraper detects the episode numbers just fine, but it does not download any episode details including the episode name.
An example is Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, which when I scan in xbmc it detects each episode but the scraper does not seem to download any info. Yet on Anime News Network it has all episode names.
It therefore only displays the episode numbers as follows with out any episode names in library view.
1x01
1x02
etc
If I use the Anidb scraper it gets the episode names.
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2010-03-27, 04:58
(This post was last modified: 2010-03-29, 22:28 by volforto.)
Looks like ANN changed their pages' html again. I am updating the TV shows scraper to adapt to this. I hope ANN doesn't do this too often.
Edit:
Updated. I also noticed TVDB is down when I was testing, and realized the scraper was trying to get the fanart no matter the setting. I think I have fixed it, but can't really test it properly without TVDB first going back up.
Edit2:
It appears to work correctly now that I have tested it with TVDB up.
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GrEn
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Thanks for the great scraper, this is exactly what I have been looking for. This is working really well for me after renaming my files. The only issue I am running into is when I am trying to use the "Enable TVDB Episode Details (Using Episode Title Matching)" setting. It will display info for some episodes but not others. I am figuring the reason is that the names don't match from ANN to TVDB exactly. They will have different punctuation or something small like that and will cause the details to not be found. It seems like only about 25% of my shows are being matched to the TVDB shows.
I have also given the AniDB scraper a shot and it works okay but has trouble matching some shows. The TVDB Episode Details work flawless on that though (as long as it finds the show on AniDB) since I think it uses episode number to get the info from the TVDB.
If you have the free time I was wondering if it would be possible to release a version that uses episode number rather than titles for matching (or adds it as another feature that you can disable.) I have been playing around trying to get it to work but my understanding of how the scraper (and reg-ex in general) works is really lacking.
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2010-04-06, 05:01
(This post was last modified: 2010-04-06, 05:08 by volforto.)
I am not sure matching episode by number will be a useful feature, because in that case people can just use the TVDB scraper instead. I kind of developed this scraper to avoid the weird "season" system on TVDB which does not work well with anime and anime specials. Matching by title allows this scraper to ignore whatever weird order is being used on TVDB.
I will think about this some more but I am not convinced it is needed at this point. Basically, my thinking is: If a show is on ANN but not on TVDB, then there will not be any episode info anyway. If a show is already on TVDB, then the TVDB scraper can be used.
The best thing to do is to edit TVDB or ANN's info so their episode titles match. It is a pretty simple process.
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First, thanks a lot for the awesome scraper. For me it correctly detected all of my anime, which is cool.
However I do have a little problem I wonder if anyone here can help.
This is the way i structure my directories:
Anime/ShowA/Season 1/Show.A.S01E01.mkv
Anime/ShowA/Season 2/Show.A.~Title~.S02E01.mkv
Anime/ShowB/Show.B.S01E01.mkv
When I scanned, all of ShowA season 1 and ShowB is correctly laid out, but ShowA season 2 is left out. When I went through the logs, it seems that it could not get results from the scraper for season 2.
What I suspect is that animenewsnetwork does not support in the scraper and instead treats them as different shows? Or I am missing something?
Please help. Cheers.
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This scraper follows how AnimeNewsNetwork or other similar anime databases treat different anime season, which basically summarize to the concept that there's no season for anime. Any 2nd or 3rd season for an anime usually has a different official name and is treated as a sequel instead. They are represented as such on ANN.
You could include the season 2 by looking up the new name for it on ANN, and rename the files as season 1 under the new name.
Hope that helps.