Scraping TVDB by "absolute number"?

[Karakh]

Is it possible to scrape tvdb using the "absolute number"?

see: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seri...d=330017&lid=7

As im sure most of you know, when you download anime (yeah, im a huge anime nerd), its almost always numbered "absolutely" instead of season/episode (eg numbered 143, instead of S04E12/4x12). Its a bit of a pain having to look up the series/episode number and manualy change every filename for every episode you download.

[spiff]

no it is currently not possible. it is certainly doable however it would require some source level changes (specifically enumeration requires a season number as it is). don't hold your breath waiting for me to do it, i will of course help anyone who wants to give it a spin though

[Karakh]

Yeah I didn't think it was implemented yet. At least we can scan by DVD order now, took me days to rename 258 episodes of the muppet show.

[spiff]

an easy sloppy way to add it is to

1) use a multi renamer to add a season number to your files - just stick them all in season 1
2) clone the dvdorder stuff in the scraper, and do the necessary changes to use absolute instead

[plooger]

Originally Posted by Karakh

Is it possible to scrape tvdb using the "absolute number"?

Yeah, this would have been a bene feature. Prior to getting into XBMC & its library feature, I'd thought I was smartly future-proofing myself by naming all my media based on the absolute numbers that seemed to predominate at TV.com.

Not so much.

I'm almost done renaming all my media to sSSeEE format.

[jacobesterque]

Does anybody know if anyone is updating TheTVDB scarper with the ability to use Absolute Number for it's ordering?

[acaranta]

Well it seems I did

http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=44667