[outleradam]

This development thread is obsolete please see this thread:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=453344

This is something I've been working on tonight. I hope to have it operational soon. It will eventually rename episodes to Showname-SxxExx-(show title).XXX with only the showname and episode name from MythTv.

Usage: /user/home/Desktop/tv.sh "showname"
currently it will generate a file called "show name".txt which is the entire TVDB on the show and "show name".reduced.txt which contains only the pertinant information

Code:

#/bin/sh

#usage is as follows-  tv.sh "show name" "episode name"  eg. tv.sh "family guy"

apikey="3B81A89C73E4EE95"


#make series name friendly for URL usage
showname=`echo $1|replace " " "%20"`

#note the show for the log
echo "checking for show named" $1 "on TVDB.com" > output.log
echo "the episode name is" $2 >> output.log

#get seriesid from showname from TVDB
seriesid=`curl www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=$showname|grep "<seriesid>"`

#I was parsing the XML, i realized I didn't need to save the file.
#seriesid=`echo $seriesid|replace "> <" ">Ḃ<"`
#seriesid=`echo $seriesid|tr -s "Ḃ" "\n"|grep "<seriesid>"`

#remove XML tags
seriesid=`echo $seriesid|tr -d "<seriesid>"|tr -d "</seriesid>"`
echo "got series ID for $1 it is $seriesid" >>output.log
echo "now downloading show information for $1" >>output.log


#download series info for show
curl http://www.thetvdb.com/api/$apikey/series/$seriesid/all/en.xml > $showname.txt
cat $showname.txt|egrep "<EpisodeName>|<SeasonNumber>|<EpisodeNumber>">>$showname.reduced.txt

would anyone like to give me input? I'm learning bash