Question about TV.com scraping

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spiff Offline
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Post: #11
fix is in svn.

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Post: #12
Thanks alot J_K_M_A_N
I really love the tv-database, it is great to be able to check if some guest-actors can be found in other shows you have.
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Post: #13
Issue, season 9 ep. 3 of Top Gear isn't detected, presumably because it has the status of "special" at TV.com (although it has both season and ep. number)
See here
I am trying to get my head around this and I presume it is the same reason other specials no not show up?
I guess the question would be, is this fixable through regexps, or is it simply non-functional as the other specials (which don“t have the season/ep. identifier)

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Post: #14
fixable but not sure if that's something we want to do. how's the general status of this (this is why backends like zsori is so much better than scraping a web page)?

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Post: #15
I have another problem with the tv.com scraper.
I have a directory "the.office.us" with all episodes of "The Office" in the structure "the.office.us/season.3/the.office.us.3x21.product.recall.avi"
When i first added the series to the database, i had to change the search from "the.office.us" to "The Office".
Now when i do a "scan for new content" on the dir or i want to get the episode-info for the last episode added the pop-up dialog comes up and disappears almost immediately.
The logs give an error like:

15:30:31 M: 31539200 INFO: Loading skin file: DialogVideoScan.xml
15:30:31 M: 30965760 DEBUG: CVideoInfoScanner::Process - Starting scan
15:30:32 M: 30965760 INFO: Get URL: http://www.tv.com/search.php?stype=progr...g=tv_shows
15:30:32 M: 30924800 ERROR: IMDB: Unable to parse web site
15:30:32 M: 30965760 DEBUG: CVideoInfoScanner::DoScan - Finished dir: smb://192.168.1.134/series$/archive/the.office.us/
15:30:32 M: 30978048 DEBUG: CVideoInfoScanner::Process - Finished scan

Only via a total refresh of all episodes (and again choosing "The Office" as tvshow), it lets me add new episodes.

It seems it doesnt remember the show i chose, but uses the dirname as search on tv.com.
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