Sabnzbd script to trigger NzbDrone series refresh

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My OS platform is WinVista32 and my storage is on a NAS. Sab handles all nzb sorting and renaming, I have no need for periodic checks in the Drone Factory Folder.

I followed the instructions in the wiki https://github.com/NzbDrone/NzbDrone/wiki/Disable-Drone-Factory-Folder-Scanning

Wanting to run the cURL script from CLI I installed cURL from http://curl.haxx.se/dlwiz/?type=bin&os=Win32&flav=-&ver=2000%2FXP

I took the cURL script from the wiki and replaced the command with refreshseries from https://github.com/NzbDrone/NzbDrone/wiki/Command#refreshseries
curl http://localhost:8989/api/command -X POST -d '{"name": "refreshseries"}' --header "X-Api-Key:YOUR_API_KEY_GOES_HERE"

But I get this output:

{ "message": "Unterminated string. Expected delimiter: '. Path '', line 1, position 7.", "description": "Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException: Unterminated string. Expected delimiter: '. Path '', line 1, position 7.\\r\ at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.ReadStringIntoBuffer(Char quote)\\r\ at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.ParseString(Char quote)\\r\ at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.ParseValue()\\r\ at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.ReadInternal()\\r\ at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.Read()\\r\ at Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization.JsonSerializerInternalReader.ReadForType(JsonReader reader, JsonContract contract, Boolean hasConverter)\\r\ at Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization.JsonSerializerInternalReader.Deserialize(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, Boolean checkAdditionalContent)\\r\ at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializer.DeserializeInternal(JsonReader reader, Type objectType)\\r\ at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(String value, Type type, JsonSerializerSettings settings)\\r\ at NzbDrone.Api.Extensions.ReqResExtensions.FromJson(Stream body, Type type) in m:\\\\buildAgent2\\\\work\\\\328d72309b633a8\\\\src\\\zbDrone.Api\\\\Extensions\\\\ReqResExtensions.cs:line 31\\r\ at NzbDrone.Api.Extensions.ReqResExtensions.FromJson[T](Stream body, Type type) in m:\\\\buildAgent2\\\\work\\\\328d72309b633a8\\\\src\\\zbDrone.Api\\\\Extensions\\\\ReqResExtensions.cs:line 24\\r\ at NzbDrone.Api.Extensions.ReqResExtensions.FromJson[T](Stream body) in m:\\\\buildAgent2\\\\work\\\\328d72309b633a8\\\\src\\\zbDrone.Api\\\\Extensions\\\\ReqResExtensions.cs:line 19\\r\ at NzbDrone.Api.REST.RestModule1.ReadResourceFromRequest() in m:\\buildAgent2\\work\\328d72309b633a8\\src\\zbDrone.Api\\REST\\RestModule.cs:line 188\r
at NzbDrone.Api.REST.RestModule1.<set_CreateResource>b__f(Object options) in m:\\\\buildAgent2\\\\work\\\\328d72309b633a8\\\\src\\\zbDrone.Api\\\\REST\\\\RestModule.cs:line 155\\r\ at CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Func2 , Object )\r
at Nancy.Routing.Route.<>c__DisplayClass4.b__3(Object parameters, CancellationToken context)"
}`

Any idea of what is going wrong here?

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First off, you don’t want to use refreshseries on a regular basis, especially on your entire library, as it fetches the series/episode data for every series in your library as well as scanning the disk. This puts a lot of load on a free service and could result in our apikey getting banned or blocked.

I don’t see anything wrong with the curl command, based on the error it’s expecting a single quote ’ after the name key, have the quotes been altered? Its possible curl on Windows uses different syntax, you could use the power she’ll snippet though.

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Ok, I’ll install Power Shell and give it a try.

What command could I use to rescan the disk for new episodes? Besides refreshseries all other commands require a series/episode ID.

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Just updated RescanSeries to work without a series ID (it will rescan all if absent), its in develop (currently building), 2.0.0.1322 or higher will be the one to grab.

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Thanks!

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just transpose the ’ and the " for windows; that is:
curl http://localhost:8989/api/command -X POST -d “{‘name’:‘refreshseries’}” --header “X-Api-Key:YOUR_API_KEY_GOES_HERE”

I also deleted the space after ‘:’ but I doubt that matters.