(2019-01-22, 13:16)Coollector Wrote: (2019-01-21, 15:56)elsmandino Wrote: For a few reasons, I have to avoid using KODI's inbuilt scrapers.
May I ask which reasons?
Sure - about 90% of the stuff we watch in our household is recorded TV, which we get via TVHeadend.
I have Kodi scrape from this Recorded folder, so it automatically adds the recordings to the TV Shows library.
I have set up the recording file name to be compliant for Kodi but even so, it is far from perfect.
Firstly, a number of shows just never show up at all - either because they are not in the TVDB to begin with or the title is slightly different (I use Schedule Direct for all my recordings, which are supposedly as accurate as one could hope for).
Secondly, as the number of TV shows being produced is ever increasing, I have noticed that the use of brackets also has, to distinguish them - i.e. an example being a TV Series I am watching called "Prison". To be picked up by TVDB, it needs to be added as "Prison (2018)", whereas it showed up in my library as a 1970s mini-series.
I did try adding missing shows to the TVDB, as well updating filenames with the appropriate brackets but I soon worked out that this method is way too intensive for everyday recordings - it only makes sense for stuff that I am going to keep.
As Kodi's libraries only seem to acknowledge files that have been scraped or have an NFO, I thought that artifically creating an NFO (with the file name) was the only guaranteed way of my having all the files in my library with an accurate title.
As Klojum mentions below, the TVDB is a bit muddled - I am wondering whether TheMovieDB may be a better option.
The only place, that I have found, that seems to be absolutely up-to-date with everything, is IMDB. Is there a scraper that I could use for that, instead?
