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Posted: **28 Mar 2023, 07:09**

Hey Noah,

I stumbled on this issue, where TVDB has an incorrect startDate.

Here is the series https://thetvdb.com/series/the-adventur ... in#general

airdate for first episode is supposed to be 1991 (Plex also considers it a 1991 series), but TVDB has a 1961 startDate for the series :

Is there anything we can do from our end or is it up to TVDB to fix this?

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{
  "@type":"Episode",
  "seriesName":"The Adventures of Tintin",
  "season":1,
  "episode":1,
  "title":"The Crab with the Golden Claws (1)",
  "absolute":12,
  "airdate":{
    "year":1991,
    "month":10,
    "day":2
  },
  "id":93282,
  "seriesInfo":{
    "database":"TheTVDB",
    "order":"Airdate",
    "language":"en-US",
    "type":"TV Series",
    "id":72668,
    "name":"The Adventures of Tintin",
    "aliasNames":[
      "Adventures of Tintin",
      "Tintins Äventyr",
      "Les Aventures de Tintin",
      "Tim und Struppi",
      "Las aventuras de Tintín",
      "タンタンのぼうけん",
      "As Aventuras de Tintim",
      "Авантуре Тинтина",
      "As Aventuras de Tintin",
      "Aventurile lui Tintin",
      "De avonturen van Kuifje",
      "Le Avventure Di TinTin",
      "Những Cuộc phiêu Lưu của Tintin",
      "Tim & Struppi",
      "Tim and Struppi",
      "Tintin kalandjai",
      "Tintin seikkailut",
      "Tintinova dobrodružství",
      "Tintins Eventyr",
      "Tintins äventyr",
      "Tintins aeventyr",
      "Приключения Тинтина",
      "タンタンの冒険",
      "丁丁历险记"
    ],
    "certification":"TV-G",
    "startDate":{
      "year":1961,
      "month":6,
      "day":22
    },
    "genres":[
      "Action",
      "Adventure",
      "Animation",
      "Children",
      "Comedy",
      "Crime",
      "Family",
      "Mystery"
    ],
    "network":"France 3",
    "rating":8.5,
    "runtime":22,
    "status":"Ended"
  }
}

Posted: **28 Mar 2023, 10:52**

startDate is notably not the airdate of the first episode. startDate is a property of the series record, so it can be different from the airdate of the first episode, depending on what information TheTVDB staff has filled in.

Looks like somebody has fixed the issue already, because I'm getting the correct information now:

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$ filebot -list --q 72668 --db TheTVDB --format "{startdate} | {episode}"
1991-10-02 | The Adventures of Tintin - 1x01 - The Crab with the Golden Claws (1)

FileBot does cache all requested information, so the client-side cache may be stale.

EDIT:

Looks like startDate was undefined, and so startDate was automatically filled in via the first airdate, which happens to be The Adventures of Tintin - Special 1 - Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece from 1961:

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{ episodelist.airdate.min() }

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1961-06-22

Posted: **01 Apr 2023, 08:41**

Hey Noah, thanks.

I found another series with the same issue "Tremors(2003)" (tvdb id : 40637) has a 1990 startDate, which is wrong (I think they are accidentally used the date for the 1990 Tremors movie).

Where/how do query the TVDB database to see the up to date info?
I mean to say, where do I plug this code in to get the results you got :

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$ filebot -list --q 72668 --db TheTVDB --format "{startdate} | {episode}"

I'm using the unraid docker gui if that matters. docker exec/shell from the filebot docker gives me nothing.

Finally, if I have stale records in cache, how do I refresh it?

Posted: **05 Apr 2023, 07:12**

This is a filebot command that you can run by opening a shell:

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filebot -list --q 72668 --db TheTVDB --format "{startdate} | {episode}"

You can use docker to start a container in which you then run a filebot command like so:
https://github.com/filebot/filebot-docker#filebot

You can open a shell inside a container like so:
https://github.com/filebot/filebot-dock ... -container

You can clear the cache like so:
viewtopic.php?t=1996

Note that all the above is and requires Linux command-line skills, and may not be helpful if you're not familiar with the Linux command-line. You will likely want to ask for help in the unRAID community if you need help for the unRAID WebUI management system and especially if you need help using unRAID-specific docker containers as these containers are built and maintained by others and so our docs for our containers may not apply:
viewtopic.php?t=12965

Posted: **11 Apr 2023, 06:12**

Thanks Noah, will give it a shot.

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