[WIP] AniDB.net Anime Video Scraper

Hi, is there a way to get special episode info with anidb scraper ?

gates Wrote:Hi, is there a way to get special episode info with anidb scraper ?

I usually use a custom regex for normal episodes, and rename my specials to the S00Exx format (referring to TVDB for the episode number).
eg. <Anime name>.S00E01.<Eptitle>.

It's a bit of manual work to figure out the episode number, but the default regex in XBMC will catch it as a special and scrape correctly.

indeed, thx

I thought anidb scrapper only get info from anidb.net, but I forgot it get fanart from thetvdb ... so why not the special ep ^^

has anybody else here noticed that when you try to change the thumb of a scraped anime that it goes blank ? -.-'

changing fanart works thou hmmmm....

Hello, I see this thread has been moved. Shouldn't it be in "TV scapers addons" and not Movie scrapers? The Anidb scraper only scrapes TV shows.

How do you guys get this working? If it picks up one of my series it'll add duplicates of the same episode. Sometimes it won't even pickup any series

LupinSansei Wrote:How do you guys get this working? If it picks up one of my series it'll add duplicates of the same episode. Sometimes it won't even pickup any series

It sounds like XBMC is not picking up your episodes correctly. How are your files named? Are you using custom regex?
Try turn on debug logging, update your library and see what errors happen.

As for series not being picked up, I seem to remember I had to rename a couple to the name on Anidb to get them picked up.

salival Wrote:For those intrested, here is the code I use for the anidb java client in anidb.net. (in the client, go to options > use tagging system > edit tagging system)

Code:

Trunc(str, len):=$repl(%str%, ".{" $len($repl(%str%, "(.?){" %len% "}$", "")) "}$", "")
TruncEllipse(str, len):= { $len(%str%) = $len($Trunc(%str%, %len%)) ? %str% : $Trunc(%str%, %len%) "…" }

AT:=[%ATr%,%ATe%]                                              #anime title (romanji or english)
ET:=[%ETe%,%ETr%]                                              #episode title (english or romanji)
ET:=$TruncEllipse(%ET%,"64")                                   #truncate long titles
GT:="[" [%GTs%,%GTl%] "]"                                      #group tag (short or long)

EpNoPad:=$pad(%EpNo%,$max($len(%EpHiNo%),$len(%EpCount%)),"0") #episode number padding
EpNoPad:="ep"%EpNoPad%                                         #add "ep" in front
EpNoPad:=$repl(%EpNoPad%,'ep[sS]',"S00E0")                     #rename specials from "epS" to "S00E"

Src:="["%Source%"]"                                            #set [source] e.g. [Blu-ray]
Ver:={%Ver%="1"?"":"v"%Ver%}                                   #set version if appliccable
Res:="["%FVideoRes%"]"                                         #set resolution e.g. [1280x720]

MEpNo:={%ET%="Complete Movie"?%EpNoPad% %Ver%:%EpNoPad% %Ver%" - "%ET%} #Only show title when not "Complete Movie"

Movie := %AT%" "%MEpNo%" "%Res%%Src%%GT%                       #for movies set to "animetitle ep01 [resolution][source][group]
Other := %AT%" "%EpNoPad% %Ver% " - "%ET%" "%Res%%Src% %GT%    #all else set to "animetitle ep## - episode title [resolution][source][group]

FileName:= {%Type% = "Movie"? %Movie% : %Other%}               #check if the file is a movie or not and rename appropiately

With the following regexp in your advancedsettings.xml I get most anime, including specials and movies. For movies you will not get fanart (because the tvdb doesn't have fanart for movies).

Code:

<advancedsettings>
    <tvshowmatching action="prepend">
        <regexp>ep([0-9]+)</regexp>
    </tvshowmatching>
</advancedsettings>

Also, to improve the chance of this scraper to get the right anime, name your folder exactly as the anime is named on anidb. You can also use one of the names in the titles field of the animedescription.

Thank you so much for this it worked excellent for renaming my anime, however scraping with xbmc only worked on maybe 60 percent of my anime. If I am somehow able to add a season number in front of the ep number it'd help out alot.
I do not know java/code/etc but is there another command line I could add to the tagging script you gave that would add season number as well?

Or even better, would you happen to know why some of the shows are not scraping? I added the code you mentioned to the advanced settings xml as well.....

Should the structure be
Anime/<name of show>/file

or

Anime/<name of show>/<season x>/file

??

Thanks

I'm new to xbmc and i think it's awesome.
I'm on day 5 setting up my tv shows and movies.
I have movies and tv shows set up almost perfectly but they're so simple to fix.
Problem is anime!
Everything i try fails miserably.
I don't know what to name them to get it to work.
I've tried same as season (S0xexx)
I've tried copying pasting name from anidb
I've got one to partially work by changing to 1x01 - 1x180.
Others seem to just randomly grab what they feel like.

Also have naruto boxset rip each volume is has 3 disks file extension .ISO/.MDS but don't know what to name it to to get it picked up by scraper.

deviousx Wrote:I'm new to xbmc and i think it's awesome.
Also have naruto boxset rip each volume is has 3 disks file extension .ISO/.MDS but don't know what to name it to to get it picked up by scraper.

I'm having the same issue with 6 DVDrips containing 6 LoveHina episodes each, in normal DVD-folder format. Neither gets picked up by the scraper.

Also, the scraper isn't able to pick up series that have characters not printable in filenames, case in point: Fate/Zero, which after renaming is called Anime/FateZero/FateZero - 01.mkv etc.
Since no entry exists in anidb for "FateZero", the lookup fails. Any way to get this to work?

On a different note, someone really needs to put an introduction to get this scraper to work in a wiki, almost everyone posting here has the exact same problem.