Manual import of episodes using script

[dano]

Sonarr version (exact version): 4.0.0.748
Mono version (if Sonarr is not running on Windows):
OS: Windows 10
Debug logs:
Description of issue: the manual import script I was using with version 3 is not working with version 4

The v3 powershell script uses this:
$URL = ‘http://localhost:8989/api/command’
$JSON = ‘{“name”: “DownloadedEpisodesScan”, “path”: "’ + $path.replace(’\’,’\\’) + ‘", “importMode”: “Move”}’
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $URL -Method Post -Body $JSON -Headers @{“X-Api-Key” = $apikey}

$path is the full path to a folder containing a TV episode file

I changed the URL to http://localhost:8989/api/v3/command
but I get this error:

Invoke-RestMethod : The remote server returned an error: (415) Unsupported Media Type.

I guess the API has changed but I’m not getting enough info from the API wiki page to figure out what needs to be changed.

[Obelisk]

The endpoint changed with V4. Here is an example of the manual scan trigger for a series that I got working…

curl -X POST http://192.168.1.50:8989/api/v3/command --header "X-Api-Key:XXXXXXXXXXX" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name":"RescanSeries","seriesId":'$serid'}'

I think it had some issues with white space in the JSON section when I was working on it so try removing whitespace in yours and see what happens. Been a few weeks since I worked on it so I don’t exactly remember.

EDIT : I forgot that I also had to declare the Content-Type as JSON to get it to work. Try adapting the example above as it is working with the “command” API endpoint.

Edit 2 : I think the issue is with the Content-Type. This is the Powershell Documentation for the Method you are using.

-ContentType

Default value is None
Accepts pipeline input False
Specifies the content type of the web request.

If this parameter is omitted and the request method is POST, Invoke-RestMethod sets the content type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Otherwise, the content type is not specified in the call.

[dano]

adding -contentType ‘application/json’ to the Invoke-RestMethod command did the trick

I did not have to change the DownloadedEpisodesScan command

Thanks for the help.

[Obelisk]

The documentation is not good in this area so I ended up using tcpdump to capture and decode the packets on Linux and looked at the HTML coming off a browser to see the refresh series trigger coming into Sonarr. That is where I spotted the content-type as part of the API request.

[ilike2burnthing]

The examples do include Content-Type: application/json - Sonarr API Docs.

[Obelisk]

Now that I go back and look at it I see it is there (now that I know what I am looking for) but to be honest, the way that it is documented I didn’t know what I was looking at. Probably more of a me problem but a simple curl example would be most useful or show us the request that was sent and not just the response in the HTML tool. Transitioning to requiring content-type declaration could have also been pointed out with an asterisk even so it is more obvious.

[ilike2burnthing]

Click Try it out, change the json to whatever or leave as is, click Execute, get curl example.

[Obelisk]

Oh great… thanks! I had no idea that’s how that page worked. Much easier than the hoops I jumped through.

[dano]

It still would be nice if the need for the contentType declaration was explicitly specified.

I have another script that does calendar gets where I was able to figure out that I needed to add includeSeries true to my command because includeSeries was listed in the calendar parameters.

I seem to remember that the old wiki (version 2?) included documentation for all the commands available through the command API. I don’t see any of that in the current API docs.