[mythtv-users] TV-Series DVDs

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, October 31, 2007 3:55 am, jedi at mishnet.org wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 09:33 -0500, Mike LaPlante wrote:
>>> Nathan A. Smith wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > Reading the archives, I don't see any recent discussion of how people
>>> > handle importing, separating, tagging, etc -- TV series DVDs.  Since
>>> > IMDB doesn't see to have anything on these, and the mythvideo doesn't
>
> imdb.com tracks these but is somewhat unreliable. imdb.pl is listed as
> "broken" when it comes to tv shows but it's easy enough th "fix" so that
> it will pull down tv information instead of movies.
>
> A number of us have our own versions of imdb.pl for this purpose.
>
> tv.com is much better but doesn't seem to be completely automatable.
>

Have you tried looking at http://thetvdb.com ? They have a well defined
API with xml data returned. See http://thetvdb.com/?tab=xml

I am struggling to write an imdb.pl equivalent, without a lot of luck (my
programming skills solely to blame!).


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Nick Rout