[mythtv-users] tmdb3.py with/without year

[Thomas Mashos]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Matt Garman <matthew.garman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > According to the documentation here
>> >     http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing
>> > "Note: Adding the year in YYYY format to a movies filename will help
>> > with duplicate matching."
>> >
>> > But I've noticed that adding the date to a movie causes tmdb3.py to
>> > (sometimes) return no results.
>> >
>> > For example, the following returns many results (25 to be exact):
>> > # tmdb3.py -M "Predator"
>> >
>> > However, the first one is what I want, and the metadata shows
>> > <year>1987</year>, so I'll add that to the filename, and maybe it will
>> > filter out all the extraneous results.  Nope, now I get zero results:
>> > # tmdb3.py -M "Predator 1987"
>> >
>> > I've tried this for many titles, where leaving out the date gives lots
>> > of matches, but adding the date gives zero matches.
>> >
>> > Am I doing something wrong?  Maybe my tmdb3.py is too old?  It's version
>> > 0.3.7.
>> >
>> > Thanks for any suggestions!
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>> Currently adding the year doesn't give you any additional info (as
>> you've found out, it actually makes it return zero results). This is
>> because while the API for http://www.themoviedb.org/ support adding
>> the year in queries, MythTV does not parse the year from the filename
>> and tmdb3.py doesn't support any options for specifying the year.
>> There has been debate in the past regarding this, but nobody has
>> stepped forward to do anything about this (and the devs of these
>> particular features have it working the way they want)..
>>
>> It used to work, as V2 of the API supported searching for a title with
>> the year included in it, but IIRC V3 removed this functionality.
>
>
> And there doesn't appear to be any way to manually enter the inetref any
> longer, either... Or is this a theme issue? (I'm using MythCenter)
>
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That would be a theme issue. I've entered it in Mythbuntu and it works fine.

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Thanks,

Thomas Mashos