Ok. this might be a solution (for some)... My IP being blocked was confirmed when I tried to post on TVDB's forum with the following message: Your IP 41.75.96.4 has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For details please see http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=41.75.96.4. The link provided more ...

Hi again,

It seems that my IP is in fact being blocked - along with a number of other people's... TVDB forum - CloudFlare IP block: http://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=11702.

Back to my original question: Can I instruct FileBot NOT to make use of TVDB using the command line interface?

hi rednoah, it never works - every time i try to do a match through filebot - choosing thetvdb - i get the 403 error. thetvdb.com is not down - and i can access it using my browser. why would my ip be blocked, and how would i be able to check it? you mention checking my connection - is there ...

Hi, Has anybody been able to fix this? I also get a 403 error returned by TheTVDB - IOException: Error while loading XML resource... Server returned response code 403... Basically, as far as I understand, TheTVDB is denying the request. Is there a way to disable using TheTVDB for the lookup and only ...