Hi. Been using vero/kodi for several years with no issues at all. But for the last week or so tv shows no longer scrape using tvdb. It starts to scrape/search but quits within a minute or so. I also tried using tmdb as a backup but it fails miserably (about 70% missing) in finding just about anything, even though everything is correctly named. Movies scrape just fine. Here’s my log:
2020-01-23 18:33:21.528 T:3792691936 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for https://api.thetvdb.com/search/series?name=The%20Terror%20S02E01: 2020-01-23 18:33:21.528 T:3792691936 ERROR: Run: Unable to parse web site 2020-01-23 18:33:21.986 T:3792691936 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for https://api.thetvdb.com/search/series?name=The%20Terror%20S02E01: 2020-01-23 18:33:21.986 T:3792691936 ERROR: Run: Unable to parse web site
Because I’m having the same problem with the series His Dark Materials despite sticking to Kodi’s naming conventions and other shows scraping fine in the meantime, I blame TVDB. From this post on the Kodi forums it looks like it’s got something to do with a change of their API and a needed adjustment of the scraping addon. The change text of the scraping addon’s version 3.2.4 supports this:
I see. Hopefully the updated addon will be available soon. Which brings me to my next issue (I updated my post), that I cant update addons either… I hope I can update via zip-file instead.
The old .nfo method did the trick. Just solved it by creating a simple text file tvshow.nfo in the series’ folder. The file contains nothing but the URL of the TVDB entry, in this case His Dark Materials - TheTVDB.com.
I hope I can update via zip-file instead.
