pathw Wrote:I think a shared copy that's updated would be better. But maybe instead of an xml file, we could make a simple website where you give it the anidbid and it gives you the tvdbid, and we let anyone edit it ? Crowdsourcing and all that.

pathw Wrote:I noticed though that the fanart section, that looks up alternate names and prequels, does not look up this file.?

pathw Wrote:I have added the support. You could just merge it in if you want.

pathw Wrote:hmm but I dont get this. The art on the image is always of different aspect ratios. Why does xbmc scale it so badly?

ZERO <ibis>' Wrote:Imagine if someone convinced anidb to integrate fan art and per episode descriptions right on their site, now that would be nice.

ZERO <ibis>' Wrote:Onto what I think may be an interesting request. Is there any way to have the scrapper automatically download all available fan art and place it in the extrafanart folder?

bambi73 Wrote:As I already stated somewhere above, scraper doesn't download any pictures, it only provides information where to download them. These informations are there, but XBMC download only first one in the list and you can select different later. If you want kind of functionality what you described you will need some Python script/addon to do it for you.

ZERO <ibis>' Wrote:On this note and also noting that others have commented about cool things the scrapper could do but can not due to the limitations of it not being a full python plugin I suggest the following:

How about a feature support plugin. Basically a python plugin that works with this scrapper to offer additional features that would not be possible otherwise. For example:
The ability to preform the above requested automatic downloading of fan art
The ability to auto generate theme.mp3 files by also looking up the series on gendou.com and automatically downloading the full version of the OP1
The ability to have an anime version of TV Show Next Aired that uses data from anidb to show the next episode release date (I have TV Show Next Aired disabled b/c it is borked as far as anime goes thinking it is some crazy crap)
Ect..

I think there are all sorts of features that could be made possible with an expansion plugin that works hand in hand with this scrapper in order to provide us anime lovers the same interface experiences offered to users of American content.

NoValidTitle Wrote:Ok, I'm sorry to be a pest but would someone mind giving me a hand? I've spent hours reading and tinkering but I don't fully understand all the scraper stuff apparently. I'm not even a huge anime watcher to be honest, just a few series. I'm running XBMC Live(installed) and I'm trying to use the anidb scraper to get my One Piece episodes into my library. No matter what I do the closest I can seem to get is it scans my folder and adds every episode as a special and not an actual episode. My episodes are named like this: One Piece - 001 - I'm Luffy! The boy who will become the Pirate King! [K-F&AKUPX].avi which I used WebAOM to rename.

Where do I even start at fixing this?

bambi73 Wrote:Your problem lies in parsing of episode and season numbers from file names and it's done by XBMC itself even before scraper is started. What you are looking for is <tvshowmatching> setting in [url="http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Advancedsettings.xml]Advancedsettings.xml[/url]. I guess you didn't touched this setting and you have defaults there, so in this case your file name is catched by 4th default regexp

Code:

<regexp>[\._ \-]([0-9]+)([0-9][0-9])([\._ \-][^\\/]*)</regexp>  <!-- foo.103 -->

and result is SeasonNr='0' (first capture group) and EpisodeNr='01' (second capture group) which wrong because SeasonNr=0 means specials. You must add something like

Code:

<tvshowmatching action="prepend">
  <regexp>(?i)[/\\].*?()\s-\s(\d{2,3})([^/\\]*)</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>

It expects " - " before EpisodeNr (two or three digits). Empty first capture group means SeasonNr=1.

ZERO <ibis>' Wrote:Found what I believe to be a small bug. It appears that studios are not scrapped correctly. I assume that the studio is supposed to come from anidb.net and is listed under "Animation Work". I noticed that not all shows scrap this item correctly instead leaving it blank.

For example Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai does not scrap the studio even though under the staff section it says: "Animation Work (アニメーション制作 AIC Build"

ZERO <ibis>' Wrote:I also noticed that when I ran the scrapper it actually made my genre list more restricted than before. Where it had read Comedy, Seinen it changed to just Seinen when according to anidb it should actually say Comedy, Novel, Seinen.

ZERO <ibis>' Wrote:Also for some shows like 30-sai no Hoken Taiiku the scrapper fails to find the studio or genres even though they are all right there on anidb: http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=8106

bambi73 Wrote:Fot this show i see studio Gathering in my DB and there are only two genres with weight only 400 on AniDB (you can check it here - half star = 100 weight points)