y series/movie year 2009: is it the production year?

[Biff]

y series/movie year 2009: is it the production year of a movie / series? If, no, what is the right variable?

[rednoah]

Yes

[Biff]

Thank you, rednoah,

It appears, that this year (y) is not scrapeable often, this field often stays empty. So, which year / date you actually should have when you rename a file, so you can let the right information be scraped? I use the airdate.

[rednoah]

Movie mode:
{y} is always available. Name/Year is always available as basic movie information, and at least one ID of TheMovieDB or IMDb.

Episode mode:
{y} is equivalent to {seriesStartDate.year} and may or may not be available depending on the datasource and data available. Same applies to {airdate} which is optional as well.

[Biff]

Thank you very much, rednoah.

Episode mode:
{y} is equivalent to {seriesStartDate.year} and may or may not be available depending on the datasource and data available. Same applies to {airdate} which is optional as well.

So - as you need a date / year (if I am right) the best would be just to try out which of these items are available, I assume, before renaming. So you have to change the renaming sets and use that one with the best data, I would say.

[rednoah]

Depends on what you want. You can easily have logic like, "if airdate not defined then use seriesStartDate" but does that make any sense? Those two fields could be years apart.

If you find TheTVDB entries where data is missing, just open TheTVDB and enter the data yourself so it'll be available for others in the future.

[Biff]

Actually I want the names for the files to be renamed most likely are the right ones, but it seems to be not that easy to approach. So equivalently to the movie year, which one should I use for series, this one, I assume: {seriesStartDate.year}. And when it is not available add it to TVDB. Is that OK?

[rednoah]

Well, you can use {y} cause that's the same as {seriesStartDate.year} jus to make it shorter. And if it's missing you'll need to add the missing data, wait 1-2 days, do CTRL-SHIFT-DEL in FileBot to delete cache, and then it should work.

[Biff]

Good, so I will do it, thank you very much.

By the way, how could I do it:

You can easily have logic like, "if airdate not defined then use seriesStartDate" but does that make any sense?

[rednoah]

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{episode.airdate ?: episode.seriesStartDate}

[Biff]

Thank you very much, rednoah.

Is there a manual or something like that, where I could find anything about this?

[rednoah]

It's just Groovy code:
http://groovy.codehaus.org/

With some predefined variables:
http://www.filebot.net/naming.html

[Biff]

Ah, thank you, I once had found those variables, but then...

Is it possible to do that: use {y} but when {y} is not available use {seriesStartDate.year} and when {seriesStartDate.year} is not available use {episode.airdate}?

Does {y} display the starting year of the episode or the first episode of a season or the first episode ever? So, as {y} is the same as {seriesStartDate.year} it will be the year the episode is produced or the first time broadcasted. Ah no, {episode.airdate} and {y} should be the same then...or...I am confused...to many dates...years...

[rednoah]

{seriesStartDate.year} is exactly the same as {y} for Episode expressions. The {seriesStartDate} and {airdate} variables depend on what is entered on TheTVDB, one on the series level, one on the airdate level, so they could be different.

[Biff]

OK then.

So, could one make it like this: If {seriesStartDate.year} is available use it, if not use {y}, if {y} is not available use {seriesStartDate} and if it is not available use {airdate}?

Do you think, that might be a good way?

[rednoah]

Sure, just the other way around:

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{episode.seriesStartDate?.year ?: episode.airdate}

episode.seriesStartDate really really is the same as y...

[Biff]

Yes, sorry, of course I believe you, no question...but so many dates do confuse me, sorry again.

And thank your very much.