Can't find Hawaii Five-0 metadata
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#25 Can't find Hawaii Five-0 metadata
Video Monkey 0.8 does a great job finding shows on thetvdb.com, but one fails consistently--Hawaii Five-O. I can find it easily on thetvdb.com website, but VM can't do it, even when I do a simple search at the bottom of the metadata panel.
Here is the error message:
WARNING:No appropriate metadata found for 'Hawaii.Five-0.2010.S01E11.HDTV.XviD-LOL.[VTV]'
I assume you are searching for the exact string "Hawaii Five-O". The reason that doesn't work in video monkey is because I get rid of all non alphanumeric characters. So I change the '-' to a space. If you try searching for "Hawaii Five O" on thetvdb.com, it will also fail. So for the most part I blame thetvdb.com for having a poor search matching algorithm. It also fails on "Hawaii Five-o", Hawaii 5 0" etc.
But I will leave this bug open and will add escaping for non-alphanumeric characters.
FWIW, the last char should be zero, not Oh. :)
Why do you replace non-alphanumerics with space? Maybe broaden the acceptable chars set?
The reason is to avoid issues with how special characters are interpreted in the url. Also, some search engines view characters like '-' as special. For instance in Google "abc -def", means "give me hits with abc but not def". It is really lame that tvdb is so picky about its searches. But I can make the submission strings better.