AMC: TheTVDB results missing latest episodes

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sentience
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AMC: TheTVDB results missing latest episodes

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Over the past several weeks, new episodes of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert have been getting randomly identified as old episodes, and being renamed incorrectly as a result. The log file shows that the correct episode is not listed in the "Include" list of TheTVDB results; however, I checked and confirmed that the episode in question was listed on TheTVDB website at the time the FileBot process ran.

What might be happening here? Is FileBot using a stale cache of the results from TheTVDB? Why would this only be affecting one show?

In the following log, the correct episode number was 6x30, but as you can see the list of episodes from TheTVDB stop at 6x31, so the file was detected as episode 5x11 for some reason. I checked and confirmed that episodes 6x30 and 6x31 were listed on thetvdb.com before this process was run.

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Input: /volume1/NAS/Downloads/complete/tv/Stephen.Colbert.2020.11.05.Larry.Wilmore.1080p.WEB.H264-JEBAITED[rarbg]/stephen.colbert.2020.11.05.larry.wilmore.1080p.web.h264-jebaited.mkv
Group: {Series=stephen colbert} => [stephen.colbert.2020.11.05.larry.wilmore.1080p.web.h264-jebaited.mkv]
Rename episodes using [TheTVDB] with [Airdate]
Lookup via [stephen colbert]
Fetching episode data for [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert]
Apply filter [!(id in [105251, 372084, 349122])] on [1012] options
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 1x01 - George Clooney, Jeb Bush, Jon Batiste & Stay Human]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 1x02 - Scarlett Johansson, Elon Musk, Kendrick Lamar]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 1x03 - Vice President Joe Biden, Travis Kalanick, Toby Keith]
...
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 5x08 - Tom Hiddleston, Marie Osmond]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 5x09 - Senator Elizabeth Warren, The cast of “The Brady Bunch”]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 5x10 - Billy Crystal, Thomas Rhett]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 5x11 - Taraji P. Henson, Aasif Mandvi, Kevin Camia]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 5x12 - The Best of Season 4: The Greatest Season 4 of All Time!]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 5x13 - Paul McCartney]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 5x14 - Whoopi Goldberg, Ta-Nehisi Coates]
...
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x20 - Dolly Parton, Ty Dolla $ign]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x21 - Bruce Springsteen, Eva Longoria]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x22 - Andrew Cuomo, Matt Berninger]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x23 - Sam Waterston]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x24 - Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeff Tweedy]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x25 - Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Sarah Cooper]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x26 - Jaime Harrison, Elvis Costello]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x27 - Julie Andrews, Amy Walter, Sam Smith]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x28 - Jon Stewart, Neil deGrasse Tyson]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x29 - John Oliver, JoJo]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 1 - The Colbeard]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 2 - Introducing a New Friend]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 3 - Stephen's Next Big Decision]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 4 - Announcing: an Announcement!]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 5 - The Late Show Tooncast: I Want American Asses]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 6 - June is a Lovely Time for a Wedding]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 7 - Stephen Gives 20 for the Troops]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 8 - Only In Monroe - July 2015]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 9 - Apocalypse Dow]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 10 - 9th Rock from the Sun]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 11 - Democracy’s Series Finale: Who’s Going to Clean Up This Shit?]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 12 - Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert Reunite with Old Friends]
Include [The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 13 - Unedited Comey Interview]
[1012] options remaining
[DUPLICATE] from [/volume1/NAS/Downloads/complete/tv/Stephen.Colbert.2020.11.05.Larry.Wilmore.1080p.WEB.H264-JEBAITED[rarbg]/stephen.colbert.2020.11.05.larry.wilmore.1080p.web.h264-jebaited.mkv] to [/volume1/NAS/iTunes Library/TV Shows/The Late Show with Stephen Colbert/Season 5/The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - S05E11 - Taraji P. Henson, Aasif Mandvi, Kevin Camia - stephen.colbert.2020.11.05.larry.wilmore.1080p.web.h264-jebaited.mkv]
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Re: AMC: TheTVDB results missing latest episodes

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It works for me now:

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$ filebot -list --q "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" --db TheTVDB --log INFO --filter "age < 7" --format "{d} | {episode}"
2020-11-02 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x29 - John Oliver, Cher, Jojo
2020-11-04 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x30 - Shepard Smith, Leon Bridges & Lucky Daye
2020-11-05 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 6x31 - Larry Wilmore, Laura Benanti
2020-11-03 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Special 14 - The Late Show's Showtime Election Night Special 2020

:idea: Since people don't seem to enter episode information well in advance for this one, caching could be an issue, as FileBot will cache episode listings for half a week. This might be a problem especially if people only enter the episode information on the release date, possibly only after you've already tried processing the file.


:idea: You may want to consider processing files a few days after the release date as to make sure that someone has already entered the information that you will need:

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--file-filter "age > 3"

:idea: Alternatively, you can make your --filter more specific (e.g. only match episodes aired within the last ~1 day) if you're always processing files on release date. If you expect all your files to have a nice YYYY.MM.DD identifier then you might also get away with Strict Mode thus eliminating next-best-thing-type mismatches that are enabled via -non-strict.
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