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Posted: **07 Nov 2022, 09:46**

Thanks for that, I actually wrote up a whole reply to this however I accidentally closed the tab.

Anyways to keep it short,
What I don't understand is why in:

In this case, --mapper does not work well because [anidb-16177] isn't used during episode matching, and the ID is meaningless to TheTVDB for series lookup purposes, and the file name doesn't match AniDB primary naming either:

Works perfectly fine (I tested your config myself), while my config using AniDB as the DB, AnimeList.TheTVDB as the mapper and {plex} as the format expression led to the incorrect results as seen in my previous post?
They seem to be doing or atleast be tasked to do the same thing, right? or am I missing something?

Posted: **07 Nov 2022, 11:05**

--mapper and --format are programmable elements so they're not tasked with anything specific, but can be used for anything. --mapper comes in before matching and only applies to matching. --format is just some arbitrary display value generated by your code for a given match object.

This may be important if you need xattr metadata to match the file names. Because if you do --db AniDB --format {db.TheTVDB.plex} then FileBot is working with AniDB episode information and thus write that xattr metadata accordingly, which then won't match the file names, because FileBot is completely unaware of what your format is doing.

Do you get different results from me? What is your command? What is your console output?

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$ filebot -rename -r Anime --db TheTVDB --mapper AnimeList.AniDB --output "TV Shows" --format "{ plex.id }" -non-strict --action TEST --log INFO
[TEST] from [Anime/Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) [anidb-16177]/Attack on Titan The Final Season - 12 - The Dawn of Humanity [1080p] [Subsplease].mp4] to [TV Shows/TV Shows/Attack on Titan {tvdb-267440}/Season 01/Attack on Titan - S01E12 - Wound - The Struggle for Trost.mp4]

Attack on Titan The Final Season - 12 - The Dawn of Humanity => Attack on Titan - S01E12 - Wound - The Struggle for Trost is wrong. --db TheTVDB --mapper AnimeList.AniDB does mean "I want TheTVDB episode information; but match files as if I was working with AniDB episode information" which does make sense but unfortunately doesn't work in this specific use case, though its known to work in most use cases.

--db AniDB --mapper AnimeList.TheTVDB means that you want AniDB naming but have TheTVDB SxE numbered files:

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$ filebot -rename *.mp4 --db AniDB --q 16177 --mapper AnimeList.TheTVDB --format "{ plex.id }" -non-strict --action TEST --log INFO
[TEST] from [Attack on Titan - 4x17.mp4] to [Anime/Shingeki no Kyojin - The Final Season (2022) {anidb-16177}/Shingeki no Kyojin - The Final Season (2022) - 01 - Judgment.mp4]

I had to add --q 16177 because AniDB has too many "Attack on Titan" series entries, and a search for "Attack on Titan" unfortunately does not include Shingeki no Kyojin - The Final Season (2022) in the Top 5 results.

TheTVDB => AniDB translation is not a common use case, and is not your use case as far as I can tell. You have AniDB naming and want TheTVDB naming, so you mean to convert from AniDB to TheTVDB.

Posted: **08 Nov 2022, 02:46**

So I get these results from the following:

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filebot -rename -r Anime --db AniDB--mapper AnimeList.TheTVDB --output "TV Shows" --format "{plex}" -non-strict --action TEST --log INFO
[TEST] from [F:\ANIME\testRename\Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) [anidb-16177]\Attack on Titan The Final Season - 1 - Judgment [1080p] [Subsplease].mkv] to [F:\ANIME\testRename\Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) [anidb-16177]\Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) - S04E22 - Thaw.mkv]
[TEST] from [F:\ANIME\testRename\Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) [anidb-16177]\Attack on Titan The Final Season - 12 - The Dawn of Humanity [1080p] [Subsplease].mkv] to [F:\ANIME\testRename\Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) [anidb-16177]\Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) - S04E28 - The Dawn of Humanity.mkv]
[TEST] from [F:\ANIME\testRename\Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) [anidb-16177]\Attack on Titan The Final Season - 2 - Sneak Attack [1080p] [Subsplease].mkv] to [F:\ANIME\testRename\Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) [anidb-16177]\Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) - S04E18 - Sneak Attack.mkv]

While doing what you said does work:

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filebot -rename -r Anime --q "{ f.path.match(/anidb-([0-9]+)/) }" --db AniDB --output "TV Shows" --format "{ db.TheTVDB.plex.id }" -non-strict --action TEST --log INFO
[TEST] from [Anime/Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) [anidb-16177]/Attack on Titan The Final Season - 1 - Judgement [1080p] [Subsplease].mp4] to [TV Shows/TV Shows/Attack on Titan {tvdb-267440}/Season 04/Attack on Titan - S04E17 - Judgment.mp4]
[TEST] from [Anime/Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) [anidb-16177]/Attack on Titan The Final Season - 12 - The Dawn of Humanity [1080p] [Subsplease].mp4] to [TV Shows/TV Shows/Attack on Titan {tvdb-267440}/Season 04/Attack on Titan - S04E28 - The Dawn of Humanity.mp4]
[TEST] from [Anime/Attack on Titan The Final Season (2022) [anidb-16177]/Attack on Titan The Final Season - 2 - Sneak Attack [1080p] [Subsplease].mp4] to [TV Shows/TV Shows/Attack on Titan {tvdb-267440}/Season 04/Attack on Titan - S04E18 - Sneak Attack.mp4]

Do you get different results from me? What is your command? What is your console output?

Nope, I get the same results (shown above) and it works correctly.

My question is, If I have a large library I want to convert from AniDB Absolute -> TVDB Season naming with every single anime having the anidb ID in the folder that I can extract with a groovy script. Is the method you posted of just having "{db.TheTVDB.plex.id}" in the format expression, the best way to go about it and the most reliable way?

Posted: **08 Nov 2022, 03:04**

Yes, in your case using AniDB as primary database will likely work best, because that's what matches your files best.

Using --format to simply output TheTVDB file paths based on AniDB episode of information has the advantage that if the format doesn't print anything due to the {db} binding not working for the episode at hand, you will get nice errors instead of missing file path parts (i.e. the result of a format partially working and partially not working).

If you need TheTVDB episode information in xattr metadata you will have to reprocess with --db TheTVDB again just to fix the xattr metadata attached to each file.

Please let us know how it goes. We can only guess what the best solution might be, but can't know for sure until we run things for real.

Posted: **08 Nov 2022, 11:50**

UPDATE: XEM

TheTVDB ➔ AniDB mapping not really useful for typical use cases due to API limitations.

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TheTVDB::267440 | Attack on Titan | Season 4 | Episode 28

cannot be mapped to

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AniDB::16177 | Anime: Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season (2022) | Episode 12

In particular, the AniDB ID nor season-specific series name AniDB::16177 | Anime: Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season (2022) cannot be retrieved via the API. We can map to 6x12 but Season 6 in the context of AniDB means nothing, and there's no API to retrieve the corresponding AniDB series name and ID, and Episode 12 isn't useful because every AniDB series/season as a 12th episode, and so the AniDB series/season name is required to identify files.

The necessary information is available on the website, at least the season-specific AniDB series ID:
* https://thexem.info/xem/show/4469

But not via the machine-readable API:
* https://thexem.info/map/all?id=267440&origin=tvdb

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$ filebot -list --q 267440 --db TheTVDB --format "{xem.AniDB} <= {episode}"
null - 01 <= Attack on Titan - 1x01 - To You, in 2000 Years: The Fall of Shiganshina (1)
...
Shingeki no Kyojin S2 - 01 <= Attack on Titan - 2x01 - Beast Titan
...
Shingeki no Kyojin S3 - 01 <= Attack on Titan - 3x01 - Smoke Signal
...
Shingeki no Kyojin S3 - 01 <= Attack on Titan - 3x13 - The Town Where Everything Began
...
Shingeki no Kyojin S4 - 01 <= Attack on Titan - 4x01 - The Other Side of the Sea
...
Shingeki no Kyojin S4 - 01 <= Attack on Titan - 4x17 - Judgment
...

EDIT:

FileBot r9354 updates {xem} and removes AniDB season/series name guesswork to make {xem} work or not work in a more predictable manner. TheTVDB ➔ AniDB mapping now passes back API records unmodified. AniDB ➔ TheTVDB mapping will now throw an error instead of maybe working, maybe not working, maybe working incorrectly.

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$ filebot -list --q 267440 --db TheTVDB --format "{xem.AniDB} <= {episode}"
Attack on Titan - 1x01 <= Attack on Titan - 1x01 - To You, in 2000 Years: The Fall of Shiganshina (1)
...
Attack on Titan - 2x01 <= Attack on Titan - 2x01 - Beast Titan
...
Attack on Titan - 3x01 <= Attack on Titan - 3x01 - Smoke Signal
...
Attack on Titan - 5x01 <= Attack on Titan - 4x01 - The Other Side of the Sea
...
Attack on Titan - 6x01 <= Attack on Titan - 4x17 - Judgment
...

The Attack on Titan - 6x01 mapping would generally be useless for matching AniDB named files, because AniDB named files don't have season numbers, and instead identify "seasons" via a unique series name per "season".

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