[WIP] AniDB.net Anime Video Scraper

(2012-04-23 18:20)lianthus Wrote:  Hey guys, I've been scouring the internets for far too many hours and decided to try to post here. I'm looking to get the AniDB scraper to retrieve 'episode information' for the opening and closing themes for anime. I have a lot of creditless openings and would like to connect it with anidb.net. Also, I have some of the trailers, which they also have info for, that I would let to get as well. If anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated.

I actually modified my anidb scraper a while ago to include OPs, EDs and trailers by mapping them as specials starting from episode 101 for OPs and EDs, and 201 for trailers (e.g OP1 would S00E101, Trailer 1 would be S00E201)... However, it didn't work totally as expected. XBMC automatically "corrects" the episode numbers for each season so that the first episode listed is always episode 1, so when the series had no genuine specials, OP1 (episode 101), being the "first" special episode, would get corrected to S00E01, and all subsequent episodes would then be 100 less than expected, with Trailer 1 then being S00E101. So the OP1 file on my computer, being named S00E101, would match against Trailer 1 when scraped (or against nothing if there were no trailers listed). Not ideal.

Didn't affect me too much, though, since I compile my own version of XBMC anyway, I just removed the bit of code that corrects the episode numbers, but that's hardly a solution for everybody.

(2012-04-23 14:28)lad1337 Wrote:  i know the addon is in the xbmc repo and everything ... but is i possible to download the source ?
or where is it hosted ? ... i am specifically interested in the anime-list.xml

http://sites.google.com/site/anidblist/anime-list.xml

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(2012-04-23 18:20)lianthus Wrote:  Hey guys, I've been scouring the internets for far too many hours and decided to try to post here. I'm looking to get the AniDB scraper to retrieve 'episode information' for the opening and closing themes for anime. I have a lot of creditless openings and would like to connect it with anidb.net. Also, I have some of the trailers, which they also have info for, that I would let to get as well. If anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated.

As scudlee already wrote it isn't impossible but, at least from my point of view (and I have a lot of opening/endings too), not worth of effort. Only advantage is that you will have them in library, naming is often meaningless and there are no other informations worth of scraping. I'll not invest my time to it, sorry

Hello I'm trying to scrape my anime collection with the anidb.net scraper, but I have some problems with scraping OVAs and Movies. For example, I can't make the scraper recognize Unicorn Gundam, even if all files are renamed correctly (1x01, 1x02, etc). The scraper works perfectly for all TV shows, only the ovas (and movies) that are giving me problems.
Anyone knows how to do it?

Thanks

Post your debug log while scraping problematic OVAs/Movies.

nothing is scraping today at all...

it's happening sometimes :/

Yea having the same issue today. Nothing will scrap at all.

I tried to scrape something now and it's working fine.
I guess there was AniDB.net API maitenance or some kind of drop-out, nothing what scraper can affect.

So the scraper worked wonderfully... except for one thing. it only scrapes 99 episodes for Gintama, when there are actually 201 episodes. It just stops at 99...

Edit: nevermind, when I was changing file names I forgot to do Gintama ><

EDIT: n/m.... just trying to follow the guide here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...ming_files ... since I can't find anything solid in this thread on what filename format works and what doesn't....

I guess the main issue I have, is it possible to not have to stick "S01" on all the shows, without having to get into fancy regex sorcery? The problem is that the Anidb'O'Matic renamer does not seem to provide season #, only episode #... probably because additional seasons of an anime often have a different name rather than simply a season number. So, sticking "S01" in front of all the episode numbers is just incredibly stupid, because it might not be a season 1 show... but AOM doesn't offer the possibility of knowing...