[flexmcmurphy]

Hello,

I am painstakingly preparing my movie collection so it can be scraped by themoviedb scraper to give metadata in Kodi.
I am looking up the title on themoviedb.org and am using a batch script in Unix to do a mass update.
However when I view the movie files via a Samba share from Windows the names are garbled... it's because Windows doesn't like characters such as the colon (:) and the question mark (?).
If I just leave those characters out of the new movie names will they still scrape correctly or will I need to use .nfo files for all those movies?

Cheers,

Flex

[DarrenHill]

Thread moved to movie scrapers.

Generally omitting the forbidden characters should be OK, but for examples where the scraper does give issues then an NFO file will correct it.

[Karellen]

If I just leave those characters out of the new movie names will they still scrape correctly or will I need to use .nfo files for all those movies?

Omit the forbidden characters and the movies will still scrape.

When you mention NFO files, I assume you are referring to a Parsing NFO file. You wouldn't need to create a full nfo file for movies already at TheMovieDB site... https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files#Parsing_nfo