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I'm sure this has been answered somewhere but I can't isolate the issue with the search function.

I have several shows that won't scrape correctly when I update the library.

But here is a good example.

The Five - a 2016 British mini-series.

Initially it kept scraping "The Foxy Five" with no pictures and the wrong description. It also brought up the wrong episode titles.

I tried correcting the folder name to "The Five (2016) - as it shows in the TVDB - and updated.

It still gave me The Foxy Five.

So, i added a tvshow.nfo file with the exact TVDB page link in it: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/the-five

I deleted the wrong "foxy five" entry and updated the library again.

This time, I get nothing. Not the correct one or the foxy five.

I'm stumped.  (Most other scraping issues I had were fixed by putting that tvshow.nfo file in the folder with the TVDB link.)

Is there a way to incorporate the TVDB "Series ID" number - in this case 309255 - into the .nfo file?

Or am I doing something else wrong?


Any suggestions would be appreciated.

(2019-12-18, 18:48)Sp^rky Wrote: [ -> ]Initially it kept scraping "The Foxy Five" with no pictures and the wrong description. It also brought up the wrong episode titles.

It's one of the bugs at TVDB... https://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=60976

(2019-12-18, 18:48)Sp^rky Wrote: [ -> ]It still gave me The Foxy Five.

If the wrong show is still in your library, go to the Information page and select Refresh, the pick the correct show out of the list.

If it is deleted, then go to Videos>Files locate the show and select i on a keyboard.

As for the Parsing nfo file not working, you either have the file named wrong, in the wrong location or the file encoding is not UTF-8.

(2019-12-18, 19:19)Karellen Wrote: [ -> ]

(2019-12-18, 18:48)Sp^rky Wrote: [ -> ]Initially it kept scraping "The Foxy Five" with no pictures and the wrong description. It also brought up the wrong episode titles.

It's one of the bugs at TVDB... https://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=60976

(2019-12-18, 18:48)Sp^rky Wrote: [ -> ]It still gave me The Foxy Five.

If the wrong show is still in your library, go to the Information page and select Refresh, the pick the correct show out of the list.

If it is deleted, then go to Videos>Files locate the show and select i on a keyboard.

As for the Parsing nfo file not working, you either have the file named wrong, in the wrong location or the file encoding is not UTF-8. 

It was already deleted from the TV Shows menu but this worked!

Many thanks!!

Great!!

I'll mark this solved.

If you want to figure out the nfo issue, then I need a Debug Log which captures you trying to scrape a movie with the parsing nfo. Continue posting in this thread.