[mythtv-users] Grabbing descriptions from thetvdb

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Ian,

Thursday, April 4, 2019, 12:34:41 AM, you wrote:

> 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. 

If you do not want to go through the database directly, there is the
API. You can in whatever language you like do a ttvdb lookup. Python
has an API for that. And next through the API update whatever you want
to update.
My scripts mostly are not yet updated to the API.


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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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