Software to update myepisodes

ocdcsv · Posts: 12

I am sure this has been asked before but searching didn't come up with anything.

Is there software that will do the following
Scan a directory and mark the episodes it finds on myepisodes as acquired
So the first thing it would do is scan the directory and list all the TV Shows and check to see if they are added to myshows otherwise option to add.
Then mark the acquired column for each invidual episode.
At the end it would show myshows and what episodes are missing (not acquired) so that I can go and find them.

I recently had a harddisk crash and have some bits around but it would be good to use this such program to sort out my missing etc.

I used a program called filebot for renaming tv episodes so that they are all named in a proper format. i.e. TVSHOW - SXEY - NAMEOFEPISODE.avi etc
Someone also has asked for this and the developer needed the API for updating etc.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filebot/forums/forum/723389/topic/3837778

cheers

ocdcsv · Posts: 12

hmm

Is this a brand new idea?? Its rare for me to come up with one.

Anyone good at programming this up?

Perhaps the API would be good for the filebot program...

Anyone up to the task?

nuentes · 3rd party developer Posts: 47

This seems like a lot of work, with very little payoff. Not many developers are going to want to spend that much time on a utility that people will only use once, and then uninstall.

If I were you, I would probably get a program that can print out a list of files in each directory, and then export that to excel or something so its easier to work with. Then make the list of what you are missing, and then just download them again.

rednoah · Posts: 15

done, check out the shared scripts for filebot => http://filebot.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&p=2629#p2629

imperlast · Posts: 2

rednoah · Posts: 15

ocdcsv · Posts: 12

Thanks for that RedNoah.
Runs well over the TV shows renamed and is simple way to update alot of shows.

Spoke too soon.
Seems to have issues (crashes out) with spaces in directory names though
i.e. "Vampire Diaries"

rednoah · Posts: 15

Nope, works fine. Did you quote things correctly in the cmdline call? What's the error output?

ocdcsv · Posts: 12

I am running
filebot -script fn:update-mes "E:/TVShows" --def login=ocdcsv:xxx addshows=y

Inside E:/TVShows is a directory called "Vampire Diaries"
When run I get

[acquired] True Blood 4x06 [True Blood - 4x06 - I Wish I Was the Moon.avi]
[failure] 'Vampire' not found
Done ?(?????)?

If I run it again with the space removed from between those words it handles all the subdirectories without issue.

Really nice and easy now to update the listing by scanning the directories.

rednoah · Posts: 15

Nope, somehow it came up with 'Vampires' as most likely series, which is not on MyEpisodes.

Are your files perfectly named? Vampire Diaries - S00E00 - ...

ocdcsv · Posts: 12

hmm weird

I tried a few more options
"VampireDiaries" Works.
"The Vampire Diaries" Works
"Vampire Diaries" doesn't work.

Files in the directory are named correctly
The Vampire Diaries - 1x01 - Pilot.avi

Would be good to see stats updating and then if wanted verbose mode
i.e. --def verbose (shows all the text)
Otherwise stats line like this while processing
Processing File - 1341/2199 - The Vampire Diaries - 1x01 - Pilot.avi

And at the end
Added Shows : 10
Acquired Episodes : 1093
Unknown Files : 21
Etc etc/

rednoah · Posts: 15

It's not really processing things in order. First it's grouping everything by potential series name and then series by series, file by file. The name must exactly match what's on MyEpisodes.

ocdcsv · Posts: 12

Thanks for that.

Will send another item via PM.