I need some help with scraping Spartacus. TheTVDB has an extremely annoying way of indexing tv series, unfortunately. Currently i'm trying to add Spartacus - Gods of the Arena, but TheTVDB was so smart to combine the two Spartacus series (BaS and GotA) and list the Spartacus - Gods of the Arena as specials under season 1 of BaS, instead of dividing GotA and BaS in two different 2 tv series like IMDB did. The so-called 'specials' of Spartacus are listed under Season 1 and do not have an episode number, just 'special' in front of the names. Problem is that I don't know what to do to import the tv serie properly.
Another question: Why is IMDB available for movie scraping but not for TV series scraping? IMDB is the best choice for both in my opinion and I don't see why it's not possible to use it.
Thanks in advance.
JohnXBMC
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karandras24
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2012-04-14 21:01
Post: #2
I have them listed as two seperate shows and they scrape fine from the TVDB, below is how i have them stored on my server.
TV\Spartacus Gods Of The Arena\Season 1\Spartacus Gods Of The Arena - S01E01.mkv TV\Spartacus Blood and Sand\Season 1\Spartacus Blood And Sand - S01E01.mkv TV\Spartacus Blood and Sand\Season 2\Spartacus Blood And Sand - S02E01.mkv Afaik > imdb don't really like xbmc using thier site as a scraper so thats why no TV from imdb. Hope that helps. |
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JohnXBMC
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2012-04-14 21:24
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Hm, I added them exactly the same as you, but nothing pops up in XBMC. Just the series folder but without episodes in it. As soon as I rename the folder in XBMC I can only find 2 tv series on theTVDB, the first one Spartacus(en) and the second Spartacus - Blood and Sand. If, I select spartacus it scans the first 6 episodes of BaS. So this doesn't work for me, strange that it does for you, perhaps they changed something in the indexing recently.
Anyone else suggestions? |
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karandras24
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2012-04-14 23:33
Post: #4
hmm maybe they changed it after i scrapped them in.
Try putting all of the gods of the arena in a season 0 folder and change the numbering in the file names to S00E01, S00E02 etc etc and see what happens. |
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JohnXBMC
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2012-04-15 01:24
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Thanks, that worked
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karandras24
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2012-04-15 21:54
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Glad you got it sorted
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mdifebo
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2012-04-17 04:52
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I've tried the above suggestions and neither works for me. It finds Spartacus, but is not finding Gods of the Arena.
Any other suggestions? |
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aztech
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2012-04-17 14:03
Post: #8
In my case, XBMC find all episodes etc, but there is something strange with the sorting of seasons.
My directorystructure looks like this .. Quote:.. Media\Series\Spartacus\Goods of the Arena\Season 0\ XBMC lists the following .. Quote:* All seasons But the problem is, that if I browse into Season 1, this is how it looks. ![[Image: aJsvj.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/aJsvj.jpg) It shows both Good of the Arena AND Season 1 of Blood and Sand. I've tries a whole lot of different directorystructures etc, but the result still is the same. Please help ! |
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eleventeen86
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2012-05-18 11:06
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(2012-04-17 14:03)aztech Wrote: In my case, XBMC find all episodes etc, but there is something strange with the sorting of seasons. I'm having the same problem , all my tv specials are showing up under every season number . I have my shows in folders like the following 30 Rock > Season 01 > Season 02 > Specials but I have tried putting the specials in both season 0 and season 00 but they still come up in every season when viewing in library mode. Its been happening since the 11.0 update and has been driving me crazy trying to fix :-( |
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kulprit
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2012-05-19 13:38
Post: #10
I can pretty much promise they are not coming up in every season. The specials come up in the "special" season, along with the season during which they were originally aired. ie if there was an alternate version aired, or a catch up before a particular season started after a long break.
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