Sonarr is looking for season pack (eg "S01") instead of individual episodes for newly added show

desimaniac · March 15, 2017, 2:05pm

Sonar is looking for season pack (eg “S01”) instead of individual episodes for newly added show. And because there are no season packs available right now (since the show just ended), it’s not downloading anything even though individual episodes are available in a manual search.

Manual search for individual episode:

markus101 · March 15, 2017, 4:04pm

If you do a season search Sonarr will search for all episodes in that season in a batch. Searching for This is Us S01 should return results (it does on most indexers), though a quick check on lime torrents shows that not working (maybe due to the partial word matches being rejected).

desimaniac · March 15, 2017, 7:54pm

Ok that’s how I thought it should work. I believe it’s done that for other shows and downloaded them ok (the batch searching), but I guess it’s just this show that has the problem then.

Taloth · March 15, 2017, 8:23pm

We don’t search by ‘S01’, we search by &q=This+is+Us&season=1 via the torznab api, Jackett translates that to whatever the tracker needs. If that doesn’t work properly, then it’s the job of the indexer/jackett to deal with it.

markus101 · March 15, 2017, 8:49pm

Right, that was specific to LimeTorrents where I tried that query and it failed.

desimaniac · March 16, 2017, 2:02am

Updated:

So basically Jackett is at fault here. Is there any way to modify the search to &q=This is Us as a workaround, instead? So basically no season=1 and have spaces in between the words instead of + (but not &20, apparently).

Some Tests Ive conducted below…

EZTV Tests:

Limetorrent Tests:

markus101 · March 16, 2017, 2:49am

No, Jackett will need to handle that behaviour since Sonarr is sending a consistent request to all Torznab indexers.

desimaniac · March 16, 2017, 2:54am

Ok Thanks.

I am opening up an issue with them instead.

Update: Link to Jackett issue. Fingers crossed!

desimaniac · March 16, 2017, 4:53am

@markus101 @Taloth In the meantime, could you point me to where I would find that string in the Sonarr code to edit out? In case I was to compile my own form…

markus101 · March 16, 2017, 5:27am

That’d be in NewznabRequestGenerator, but that would affect all Newznab or Torznab indexers.

desimaniac · March 16, 2017, 6:09am

Ah. I dont use usenet or Newznab.

Update: Im not a programmer but was able to download Xamarin studio and download a fork, built NzbDrone.Core.dll and replaced it with the one I have installed on my NAS.

Made the following changes…

NewznabRequestGenerator.cs:

This:

        private static string NewsnabifyTitle(string title)
        {
            return title.Replace("+", "%20");
        }

To…

        private static string NewsnabifyTitle(string title)
        {
            return title.Replace("+", " ");
        }

And this:

        public virtual IndexerPageableRequestChain GetSearchRequests(SeasonSearchCriteria searchCriteria)
        {
            var pageableRequests = new IndexerPageableRequestChain();

            AddTvIdPageableRequests(pageableRequests, MaxPages, Settings.Categories, searchCriteria,
                string.Format("&season={0}",
                    searchCriteria.SeasonNumber));

            return pageableRequests;
        }

To this…

          public virtual IndexerPageableRequestChain GetSearchRequests(SeasonSearchCriteria searchCriteria)
    {
        var pageableRequests = new IndexerPageableRequestChain();

        AddTvIdPageableRequests(pageableRequests, MaxPages, Settings.Categories, searchCriteria,
            string.Format("",
                searchCriteria.SeasonNumber));

        return pageableRequests;
    }

The search goes thru as intended and Jacket logs identify results found, but Sonarr is throwing an inception… http://pastebin.com/fJbRf0TY

Any suggestions? Or should I just give up?

markus101 · March 16, 2017, 2:22pm

Not sure, you may have better luck altering it in in Jackett.

Taloth · March 16, 2017, 3:49pm

yeah, in jackett it’s just one .yml file, I’m not gonna spend any more time here.

desimaniac · March 16, 2017, 4:56pm

Thanks for your time and help.

Update: Issue resolved with latest version of Jackett (v0.7.1176).

gtwy · March 21, 2017, 4:20pm

Sorry if this is unrelated, but where do I go to do a “manual search” ? (where you can type in your own search terms)

HitsvilleUK · March 22, 2017, 10:21am

If you are meaning as in the screenshots earlier in the thread, then that’s done in Jackett.

schniederzero · March 22, 2017, 1:41pm

In my scenario, when I set the show to monitor all and then search for a specific season at once, it checks for both. If it finds a season pack, then it will grab that. If not, it will still grab the individual episodes.

gtwy · March 22, 2017, 3:27pm

Is there any benefit to running Jackett if the torrent tracker I use is already on the list of supported trackers in Sonarr?

HitsvilleUK · March 22, 2017, 3:58pm

Probably not. In my case Jackett is essential.
But if your trackers are supported natively in Sonarr or indeed Radarr then apart from the search options mentioned then it’s not needed.

desimaniac · March 22, 2017, 5:40pm

That wasn’t working for EZTV and Limetorrents.