Sonarr not finding files for some releases - but Jackett is

Sonarr version (exact version):
2.0.0.5228
Mono version (if Sonarr is not running on Windows):
4.2.3
OS:
Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Debug logs:
https://pastebin.com/Ca4WHUbz
(Make sure debug logging is enabled in settings and post the full log to hastebin/pastebin/dropbox/google drive or something similar, do not post them directly here. Post in .txt not .doc, .rtf or some other formatted document)
Description of issue:
Sonarr won’t find files for certain releases, and I can’t figure out why. In the above debug you can see it successfully finding and grabbing Westworld, but failing to find Bob’s Burgers. These are both from the same tracker via Jackett, and when I go to Jackett to manually search for the Bob’s Burgers episodes from that tracker, it finds them with no trouble. It’s not isolated to Bob’s Burgers - I can get the same issue with other series also.

Any help hugely appreciated as currently this is making Sonarr unusable :slight_smile:

I think I’ve figured out why this happens. The series I can repeat the issue with contain an apostrophe in the title. Sonarr strips the apostrophe out from the search string:

18-8-21 19:40:40.2|Info|NzbSearchService|Searching 1 indexers for [Bob’s Burgers : S06]
18-8-21 19:40:40.2|Debug|Torznab|Downloading Feed https://88.198.67.62/jackett/api/v2.0/indexers/morethantv/results/torznab/api?t=tvsearch&cat=5000&extended=1&apikey=(removed)&offset=0&limit=100&q=Bobs%20Burgers&season=6

Resulting in no hits. How can I stop it doing that? Or get around it?

Do releases on the indexer have the apostrophe? That is rare in releases, especially non-anime as the groups that release have strict rules.

There is no way to disable that behaviour.

It appears so. If I go to Jackett and manually search for Bobs Burgers (no apostrophe), I get 0 results. Add the apostrophe and all results appear.

Would I be able to suggest a fix to Sonarr stripping out the apostrophe or would that break stuff? Seems a shame that it won’t be able to handle some fairly major shows because of it.

It’s highly dependent on the indexer and and how releases are named.

For Bob’s Burgers the apostrophe is not typically in the release name:

Bobs.Burgers.S08E20.1080p.WEB.x264-TBS

If your indexer is doing something different then it’s the odd one out.

We’re evaluating how best to handle this, mostly for anime, but knowing indexers are handling it differently is good too.

Which indexers are you using?

This is for MoreThanTV.

Thanks for info, this issue is the issue discussing the issue and has some information on the complications of it all.

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