[mythtv-users] Grabbing descriptions from thetvdb

[Ian Evans]

On Wed, Apr 3, 2019, 6:26 PM Hika van den Hoven, <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hoi Ian,
>
> Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 11:41:46 PM, you wrote:
>
> > After reading the thread "Missing season episode numbering while it
> > is there" it made me think about how to handle when descriptions are
> > missing from Schedules Direct data. It does not happen too often,
> > but occasionally my Schedules Direct data may not have a description
> > even though all of the other data is there.
>
>
> > Since the devs always warn against touching the database directly,
> > is there any way to grab and update an episode description from
> thetvdb.com?
>
> To edit the description on a recording hit Menu on the recording and
> Recording Options > Change Recording Metadata
>

Knew about that. Was looking for an automated method.

>
> to change data on ttvdb become a member of ttvdb
>

Already am. Didn't want to change anything on thetvdb, but I was hoping to
automatically grab their description if it was missing from SD.

Thanks.
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