So my wife remembers a show she used to watch and asked if I could get it. It is called “What Not to Wear”. In Drone, I find it no problem. But searching is messed up. Doing a manual search pulls up a bunch of “hits” but they are for things like ALF and Smallville and other shows that aren’t this one.
ALF was pretty funny… but it seems like a bug nevertheless.
Is drone searching using the tvrage ID or the title? (you can check via the URL used when searching). Its more likely the indexer returning bad results than anything, but knowing how it searches is important.
I’m not sure. However it is coded, the url isn’t a normal “link” where it shows up in the status bar or where I can copy it, etc. So I’m really not sure how to inspect the url. In the logs, it says (for example) “Searching 2 indexers for [What Not To Wear : S10E22]”.
edit: I don’t know if this helps, but if I remove Usenet Crawler from my list of indexers, the problem goes away. Of course, then I don’t find any (that’s the one that actually lists these episodes)
You have to look in the log files (debug or trace). Its not supposed to be a link in the browser.
Either Usenet Crawler has a bunch of other things linked to the tvrage ID or their search doesn’t work very well (and its a title search).
Interesting. I turned on debug (and then trace) and there is absolutely no extra detail in the log… same as before. So I still have no idea how it is searching.
When I manually search on Usenet Crawler’s website directly by title, it returns expected results.
Edit: OK, I see the log displayed still shows less detail but the text files show everything. OK, so this is the URL:
http://www.usenet-crawler.com/api?t=tvsearch&cat=5030,5040&extended=1&apikey=&limit=100&q=What Not To Wear&season=10&ep=25
So its searching by title, you can take the URL logged and put it in your browser to see the results the indexer returned, which is all sorts of garbage, its something with searching via their API by title thats the issue.
I thought the same thing (api + title search = garbage) but then I tried some other title searches by the same method and they worked fine.
Weird.
Anyway, what determines if a title is used vs an ID?
It will use the tv rage ID if there is one, if there isn’t a link to tvrage on the series details page then there isn’t an ID and it will fall back to title search.
OK, fair enough… then the question is: how to get a link to tvrage on the series details page? Is that done through tvdb?
As long as you can get the ID you can ask trakt’s support to add it: http://support.track.tv
Its all for not if the indexer doesn’t map it to the tvrage ID (since then the search result will return zero results).
Wow. It seems all very circular. The indexer can’t find it because it doesn’t have the ID, which is useless if the indexer doesn’t map the ID it didn’t have in the first place. I don’t know how you keep all this stuff straight!
Anyway, it really doesn’t matter. I’ve only thus far noticed this issue with this show, which I’ve now downloaded for her manually and stuffed the files in their appropriate places so nzbdrone and plex know what to do with them. The show is ended so its not ongoing.
I was thinking it was something with how nzbdrone interacted with this indexer, but I see now it has to do with how the information is managed outside of nzbdrone.
Thanks for your help in clearing it up for me.