TheTVDB.com Scraper absolute_number for Anime?

Have anyone gotten this absolute ordering to work w/ pre-eden yet? I tried and it still only work w/ S01EYY format. Is it's just more robust to change the file name?

Apologize for my ignorance; I'm new to xbmc.

Nevermind, I got it to work. I learned reg exp and made action = 'prepend" and all my pattern seek worked now.

I'm running into trouble with these changes because I'm trying to match episode Bleach 356 and it's interpreting it as season 3 episode 56 despite using absolute numbering.

what settings have you ended up using for your Anime

I refuse to rename my files ( all setup to seed when 0 seeders are listed )


I am using TheTVDB as scraper ( because it Sorted Naruto Seasons )

the ONLY Anime That is Working is Naruto
( all other scrappers show no files )

its picked up Naruto's seasons and showing the relative season episode instead of the absolute number


this is what has got me


working
[Taka]_Naruto_Shippuuden_231_[480p][13B2F500].mp4

looks the same not working
[Taka]_Usagi_Drop_01_[720p][AC57ECD8].mkv

different not working

[ANE] Shinryaku! Ika Musume - Ep01 [BDRip 720p x264 FLAC].mkv

(G_P) Patlabor TV 01(x264 720p)(7D7839AD).mkv

[Elysium]Shiki.v2.EP01(BD.1080p.FLAC)[658252C8].mkv

[Raws-4U] Skip Beat! - 01 (D-TX 1280x720 x264).mp4

[Coalgirls]_Bakemonogatari_01_(1280x720_Blu-Ray_FLAC)_[CA425D15].mkv


[HorribleSubs] Bleach - 349 [480p].mkv

[Ayako-Nishishi]_Softenni_-_02_[720p][A48E8D59].mkv



yet my Movies are all working Flawlessly ... they are even grouping in their sets ( ie all Harry potters under the one set )

i have the same problem like others here. i have 1 folder with many sub folders. and scraping with no edit works with standard shows but not with anime with just one season. so i tested some posts from here and

<tvshowmatching absolute="true" action="prepend">
<regexp>[\._ \-]([0-9]{2,3})()([\._\ \-][^\\/]*)</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
<tvshowmatching>
<regexp>[\._ \-][Ss]([0-9]+)[\.\-]?[Ee]([0-9]+)([^\\/]*)</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \-]\[?([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)\]?([^\\/]*)</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>

works for me with ervery show. absolut and standard. but in episode name should just one pair of digits be written. like "file s01e01.avi" because "file s01e01 name10.avi" would not be found.

i hope in future the scraper will be updated.

I wrote a quick and dirty script to solve this problem for me here.

What It Does

Create symlinks that follow the S__E__ convention so that animes can be scraped against TheTVDB.

What Does It Support

Platform: Linux, Python.

Series: Bleach, Naruto. (feel free to add your own)

How It Works

It grabs the episode number from the file name, matches that against known anime series and season numbers (refer to lines 54-58). It then creates a symlink to the original file with the S__E__ convention in the same directory.

How To Use

Copy the script into a .py file, e.g. ~/anime-renumber.py. Run:

python2 ~/anime-renumber.py ~/media/anime

Disclaimer

I'm not responsible for anything that happens from using the script.

Actually that might be the perfect solution for me

I might split my collection into

Original Files for seeding CRC matching
and
symlink media play back files


original files kept in one folder
and symlinked media files to be tinkered with in another folder
where file renaming fan art ect can be added


Tested and working perfectly
it seems to be linking even through the network

is their any scripts on the net for mass symlinking files in a new folder ?
ln -s /ZFSRaidz/Multimedia/Anime/Naruto_Shippuuden/* /ZFSRaidz/XBMC/Multimedia/Anime/Naruto_Shippuuden

symlinks all files in
ZFSRaidz/Multimedia/Anime/Naruto_Shippuuden
to
/ZFSRaidz/XBMC/Multimedia/Anime/Naruto_Shippuuden

then all i need to do is mass rename them all

http://pastebin.com/XsXt0j6a

is a good Anime renaming script
http://filebot.sourceforge.net/

is also good



best part is zfs I can take a snap shot and try if it goes to hell I can revert back

prefacing this with things I have tried -
I have enabled absolute ordering in TVDB scraper settings
I have installed multiple regex including the one posted in the sticky on this section in the location C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata under the name "advancedsettings.xml"
renaming to S01EXXX works for anidb as its listed in 1 season for everything, but I'd rather not have to rename every tv show over 100 episodes

I am having trouble getting tv shows to scrape past episode 99 using absolute numbering
Lets take Dragon Ball Z for example. It has 291 episodes
all named as such
Dragon Ball Z - 001 - The new Threat
Dragon Ball Z - 002 - Reunions
etc
all the way to
Dragon Ball Z - 291 - Goku s Next Journey

It scrapes fine until it gets to episode 100
using TVDB I get episodes 1-99 fully scraped
using AniDB I get episodes 1-99 fully scraped along with another 99 episodes which are 100+ renamed to episodes 1-99 giving me 198 scraped episodes
neither are accurate nor account for 291 episodes

I've searched all day and I cannot find any way to fix this. I've tested countless regex for absolute ordering but none of them give me episodes higher than a count of 99.

One of the simpler regex I've tried is
<tvshowmatching action="append">
<regexp>[\._ \-]([0-9]+)()([\._\ \-][^\\/]*)</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \- ]()([0-9]+)(-[0-9]+)?</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \- ]([0-9]*)([0-9][0-9][0-9])([\._ \-][^\\/]*)</regexp>
<regexp>[/\._ \- ]()([0-9]+)([0-9]+)(-[0-9]+)?</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
and many 1 line regexp as well as whole downloadable text files
found here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=51614
and one other large one that I cannot remember where I got it.

Debug Log: ANIDB scrape - http://pastebin.com/GzZs5mVn
Debug Log: TVDB scrape - (Had to cut into 2 since larger than 500 kb
Part 1 - http://pastebin.com/DgASwYA5
Part 2 - http://pastebin.com/KtuBk1rR
Does anyone have any idea on how I can get this to work?
This is really frustrating me.

Thanks in advance

I think there is finally a solution for this problem!

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=136169

I managed to get all my anime's including those with more than one season recognized using this scraper! The only problem is that all the anime's are now in absolute order, witch can be a hassle especially with anime's like One Piece where you are looking for a certain episode. But beside that it works perfectly!

Here are a few screenshots to show that it really works: