About TV shows scraping, please provide your directory tree[29 July updated]

Discussion in 'HDD Media player(RTD 1619DR)' started by mirror, Jun 22, 2021.

  1. JohnG

    JohnG Member

    1000% agreed. Zappiti provides an easy-to-use web interface that is much easier to access and use than Zidoo; and Zappiti hasn't updated their scraper in a long, long time.
     
  2. This would help but I think ideally it wouldn't even be needed. If the scraper is sufficiently capable, the matching accuracy is such that manual fixing is (almost) never necessary. I'm using the PLEX naming convention for my library and I have yet to encounter a movie or tv episode that I needed to manually match in Plex.
     
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  3. mirror

    mirror Well-Known Member SUPER Administrator Zidoo TECH Supporter

  4. mirror

    mirror Well-Known Member SUPER Administrator Zidoo TECH Supporter

  5. Sledgehamma

    Sledgehamma Well-Known Member

    Thank you!
    I’ll test later today. Does it improve with NFOs as well or only when not using NFOs?
     
  6. mirror

    mirror Well-Known Member SUPER Administrator Zidoo TECH Supporter

    Not using NFO.
     
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  7. Sledgehamma

    Sledgehamma Well-Known Member

    Oh okay, then it will take me some time to test as I use NFOs :/
     
  8. Sledgehamma

    Sledgehamma Well-Known Member

    Same.
     
  9. Sledgehamma

    Sledgehamma Well-Known Member

    Working now.
     
  10. mirror

    mirror Well-Known Member SUPER Administrator Zidoo TECH Supporter

    Try again:)
     
  11. For me, match success rate has been greatly improved in the new version, so thank you for that. However, there are still some cases where shows get matched incorrectly or not at all:

    Barry - https://www.thetvdb.com/series/barry
    Unmatched:
    "Z:\complete\TV\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072}\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072} Season 1\Barry.S01E01.[WEBDL-1080p Proper][8bit][h264][EAC3 5.1][-DEFLATE].mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072}\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072} Season 1\Barry.S01E02.[WEBDL-1080p][8bit][h264][EAC3 5.1][-NTb].mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072}\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072} Season 1\Barry.S01E03.[WEBDL-1080p][8bit][h264][EAC3 5.1][-NTb].mkv"
    Unmatched:
    "Z:\complete\TV\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072}\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072} Season 2\Barry.S02E01.[WEBDL-1080p][8bit][h264][EAC3 5.1][-NTb].mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072}\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072} Season 2\Barry.S02E02.[WEBDL-1080p][8bit][h264][AC3 2.0][-RK].mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072}\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072} Season 2\Barry.S02E03.[WEBDL-1080p][8bit][h264][EAC3 5.1][-memento].mkv"

    DARK - https://www.thetvdb.com/series/dark
    Gets incorrectly matched to: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/dark-season
    "Z:\complete\TV\DARK\DARK Season 1\DARK.S01E02.[WEBDL-1080p][8bit][x264][EAC3 Atmos 5.1][DE]-ntb.mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\DARK\DARK Season 1\DARK.S01E03.[WEBDL-1080p][8bit][x264][EAC3 Atmos 5.1][DE]-NTb.mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\DARK\DARK Season 1\DARK.S01E01.[WEBDL-1080p][8bit][x264][EAC3 Atmos 5.1][DE]-NTb.mkv"
    Unmatched:
    "Z:\complete\TV\DARK\DARK Season 2\DARK.S02E02.[WEBDL-2160p][8bit][x264][EAC3 5.1][DE]-NTb.mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\DARK\DARK Season 2\DARK.S02E03.[WEBDL-2160p][8bit][x264][EAC3 5.1][DE]-NTb.mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\DARK\DARK Season 2\DARK.S02E01.[WEBDL-2160p][8bit][x264][EAC3 5.1][DE]-NTb.mkv"
    Unmatched:
    "Z:\complete\TV\DARK\DARK Season 3\DARK.S03E02.[WEBDL-2160p][10bit][x265][EAC3 5.1][DE]-NTb.mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\DARK\DARK Season 3\DARK.S03E03.[WEBDL-2160p][10bit][x265][EAC3 5.1][DE]-NTb.mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\DARK\DARK Season 3\DARK.S03E01.[WEBDL-2160p][10bit][x265][EAC3 5.1][DE]-NTb.mkv"

    Dragon Ball Kai - https://www.thetvdb.com/series/dragon-ball-kai
    Gets incorrectly matched to: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/dragon-ball
    "Z:\complete\TV\Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031}\Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031} Season 1\Dragon Ball Kai.S01E02.[HDTV-720p][8bit][x264][AC3 5.1].mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031}\Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031} Season 1\Dragon Ball Kai.S01E03.[HDTV-720p][8bit][x264][AC3 5.1].mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031}\Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031} Season 1\Dragon Ball Kai.S01E01.[HDTV-720p][8bit][x264][AC3 5.1].mkv"
    Unmatched:
    "Z:\complete\TV\Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031}\Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031} Season 2\Dragon Ball Kai.S02E02.[Bluray-1080p][8bit][x264][AC3 5.1][EN+JA][-aAF].mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031}\Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031} Season 2\Dragon Ball Kai.S02E03.[Bluray-1080p REAL][8bit][x264][AC3 2.0][JA+EN][-TENEIGHTY].mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031}\Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031} Season 2\Dragon Ball Kai.S02E01.[Bluray-1080p REAL][8bit][x264][AC3 2.0][JA+EN][-TENEIGHTY].mkv"

    Manhunt - https://www.thetvdb.com/series/manhunt
    Unmatched:
    "Z:\complete\TV\Manhunt- Unabomber\Manhunt Season 1\Manhunt.S01E03.[WEBDL-2160p][8bit][x265][EAC3 5.1]-iNSPiRiT.mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\Manhunt- Unabomber\Manhunt Season 1\Manhunt.S01E01.[Bluray-1080p][8bit][x264][DTS 5.1]-SHORTBREHD.mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\Manhunt- Unabomber\Manhunt Season 1\Manhunt.S01E02.[WEBDL-2160p][8bit][x265][EAC3 5.1]-iNSPiRiT.mkv"

    The Boys - https://www.thetvdb.com/series/the-boys
    Unmatched:
    "Z:\complete\TV\The Boys\The Boys Season 1\The Boys.S01E02.[WEBDL-2160p][8bit][x264][EAC3 5.1]-RakuvArrow.mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\The Boys\The Boys Season 1\The Boys.S01E03.[WEBDL-2160p][8bit][x264][EAC3 5.1]-RakuvArrow.mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\The Boys\The Boys Season 1\The Boys.S01E01.[WEBDL-2160p][8bit][x264][EAC3 5.1]-NTb.mkv"

    The Fall - https://www.thetvdb.com/series/the-fall
    Unmatched:
    "Z:\complete\TV\The Fall\The Fall Season 1\The Fall.S01E02.[Bluray-1080p][8bit][x264][AC3 2.0]-HDWinG.mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\The Fall\The Fall Season 1\The Fall.S01E03.[Bluray-1080p][8bit][x264][AC3 2.0]-HDWinG.mkv"
    "Z:\complete\TV\The Fall\The Fall Season 1\The Fall.S01E01.[Bluray-1080p][8bit][x264][AC3 2.0]-HDWinG.mkv"

    Especially curious to me are Manhunt, The Boys and The Fall, where the first season is unmatched but the latter ones are matched successfully.
     
  12. Sledgehamma

    Sledgehamma Well-Known Member

    Seems to be improved indeed. However, I'm getting almost no pictures.

    I deleted my DB and build it from scratch. For most I have NFOs in the folders and for all I have TV show, season and episode pictures in the folders.

    Results:
    -For the few shows without NFOs, matching worked and I'm getting pictures.
    -two TV shows have another folder layout (TV show name - Episode S01E01). So the episodes are not in a season folder. Those have NFOs as well and I'm getting a TV show picture, but no picture for the episodes.
    -for the other shows with NFOs (the layout I sent you via PM) I'm not getting TV show picture, season picture nor episode picture.

    I set "NFO parse" to precedence.

    Sorry, not much time right now. I hope you understand what I mean.
     
  13. mirror

    mirror Well-Known Member SUPER Administrator Zidoo TECH Supporter

    If there are enough people involved in the discussion, I believe we will soon be able to increase the matching rate to 99%.
     
  14. mirror

    mirror Well-Known Member SUPER Administrator Zidoo TECH Supporter

    Maybe you can provide me with some NFO files that have problems
     
  15. Is matching via the tvdb ID something you're considering at all? I would assume this would help greatly with the matching of shows with duplicate or common names (example The Boys and Dragon Ball).

    Again, this is the naming format that PLEX recommends for TV series if tvdb matching is to be used:

    Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072}
    Dragon Ball Kai (2009) {tvdb-88031}

    The { } brackets signify to the PLEX scraper that whats within the brackets is the tvdb ID.

    I imagine this approach would also fix movies with three character or numbers only titles not being matched. (Elf, 1917 etc.)
     
    Last edited: Jun 28, 2021
  16. Sledgehamma

    Sledgehamma Well-Known Member

    You can use the NFO files I posted on the first page of this thread.
     
  17. I tried a Sonarr (TV library management software) created .nfo file, which uses the Kodi metadata format:

    individual episode .nfo:
    https://pastebin.com/qGPDaT5P
    "Z:\complete\TV\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072}\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072} Season 1\Barry.S01E01.[WEBDL-1080p Proper][8bit][h264][EAC3 5.1][-DEFLATE].nfo"

    general series .nfo:
    https://pastebin.com/3A1S5X6L
    "Z:\complete\TV\Barry (2018) {tvdb-333072}\tvshow.nfo"

    These .nfo files, which from my understanding are supported by Kodi, did not get parsed when scanning with HT 4.0
     
  18. When I added the NFOs I deleted my source folder and added it again with it set to prioritize NFOs, as mentioned, didn't work.
     
  19. Is that not what happens when you delete the source entirely and recreate it anew?
     

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