Kodi 16.1 and the tvshow.nfo

[hellmaker]

Hi,

i was having problem that kodi does not recongnize tvshows (series) in my folders.
The naming from filebot is quiet ok but kodi simply not find any content in those folders.

I figure out that i have to delete the tvshow.nfo. After doing so kodi is finding the shows and integrate it inside the database.

So it´s not very fine to manually remove all the tvshow.nfo files which are greated by filebot.

What can i do to improve this?

http://pastebin.com/nxPSmVnR

[rednoah]

Not sure, it's kind of a Kodi issue. What to the Kodi devs suggest?

FileBot doesn't generate the <episodeguide> element anymore because TheTVDB API v2 is different from the current XML API. Kodi should use it's own code look up additional info.

[hellmaker]

Kodi devs suggest nothing............ There are no replies to my thread.
Kodi support isn´t that good as here

FYI: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=282774

[rednoah]

<episodeguide> is supposed to be a TheTVDB API v1 XML Series Record URL but the new TheTVDB API v2 works differently.

I could have it output <episodeguide> elements and that would work for now, but eventually TheTVDB API v1 will be turned off, so this would just be a temporary relief in absence of an official solution on the Kodi side.

[hellmaker]

Is there a way to NOT create such a tvshow.nfo file?
Just as work around.............

[rednoah]

Is there a way to NOT create such a tvshow.nfo file?

--def artwork=y creates artwork and nfo files. Set --def artwork=n and it won't create nfo files (nor download artwork files).

[rednoah]

Can anybody confirm that newer versions of Kodi (i.e. latest stable) works perfectly fine now that <episodeguide> has been removed and that the absence of <episodeguide> is only an issue for older versions of Kodi?

[kim]

It does NOT:

<episodeguide>
<url cache=""></url>
</episodeguide>

Required if no or missing episode nfo's

https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files/TV_shows#TV_Show

aka useless without episode nfo's (time to add support)

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5451&p=31192#p31191

if Kodi makes (export) the nfo's then e.g.:

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    <episodeguide>
        <url post="yes" cache="auth.json">https://api.thetvdb.com/login?{"apikey":"439DFEBA9D3059C6","id":269586}|Content-Type=application/json</url>
    </episodeguide>

EDIT:
Here is the fix

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episodeguide { url(post:"yes", cache:"auth.json", "https://api.thetvdb.com/login?{"apikey":"439DFEBA9D3059C6","id":${i.id}}|Content-Type=application/json") }

[kim]

How to stop the XML convert ?
from

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"

to

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"

[rednoah]

I've modified the script to generate the <episodeguide> element for TheTVDB APIv2. You can try -script dev:amc and see if it works.

[kim]

the episodeguide part works and no more "&quot;"

but the tvdb part did nothing
still "&" into

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&

[rednoah]

" is perfectly fine in XML text content, by spec, so no need to escape it, and can't because Groovy generates the XML.

That being said, we need to generate whatever XML flavor Kodi can read. So the reason Kodi can't deal with the nfo files is because it's " in the name and not " can you confirm?

[kim]

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<episodeguide>
        <url post="yes" cache="auth.json">https://api.thetvdb.com/login?{"apikey":"439DFEBA9D3059C6","id":269586}|Content-Type=application/json</url>
</episodeguide>

vs

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<episodeguide>
        <url post="yes" cache="auth.json">https://api.thetvdb.com/login?{"apikey":"439DFEBA9D3059C6","id":269586}|Content-Type=application/json</url>
    </episodeguide>

looks like Kodi (18.2) work with both but " is the safe way

[rednoah]

I'll stick with letting Groovy generate the XML then, without making any replacements on the raw String value afterwards.

[kim]

I see you have removed episodeguide again ?
https://github.com/filebot/scripts/comm ... 06fd592342


EDIT:
https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:The_TVDB
Kodi v18-20 still use episodeguide, like you removed
e.g.

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    <episodeguide>
        <url post="yes" cache="auth.json">https://api.thetvdb.com/login?{"apikey":"439DFEBA9D3059C6","id":75978}|Content-Type=application/json</url>
    </episodeguide>

https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:The_TVDB_(new)
use new simple way (same as id)
e.g.

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    <episodeguide>75978</episodeguide>
    <id>75978</id>

[rednoah]

https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:The_TVDB_(new)
use new simple way (same as id)
e.g.

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    <episodeguide>75978</episodeguide>
    <id>75978</id>

Yep, that makes much more sense, we can work with that:
https://github.com/filebot/scripts/comm ... f002dfa2fa


Since TheTVDB will drop support API v2 eventually (originally set for 1 Oct 2021 but once again postponed until Summer 2022) its best not to hard-code API-specific URLs into each NFO file. <episodeguide>75978</episodeguide> is much more future-proof there.