New TV data source proposal.

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New TV data source proposal. #7

Closed RickyGrassmuck closed 6 years ago

RickyGrassmuck commented 8 years ago

So I was digging around while I'm at work and came across another TV data website, called tvmaze.com, who's API is much simpler and seems to offer more features than TVDB.

You can get all the details about it from http://www.tvmaze.com/api

A couple things that stood out were:

it's an open API so no need for an api key or token is needed to call against it
Uses fuzzy logic to find and return the most relevant results even given slight spelling errors.
Provides additional series data like seasons, episodes, air time info, posters and trailer links
Returns the data in a well formatted, easy to parse json object.

Let me know what you think about it, seems to me that it would be perfect for this project.

lokenx commented 8 years ago

Interesting find. Important question though, does it return a valid TVDB ID as that's what all the services require.

Answered my own question haha! It does under externals. Very interested then!

RickyGrassmuck commented 8 years ago

Yup, it returns that plus IMDB and tvrage id's

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016, 1:55 PM loken notifications@github.com wrote:

Interesting find. Important question though, does it return a valid TVDB ID as that's what all the services require.

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lokenx commented 8 years ago

Now do we add it to this (still not sure if I'll finish) version, or on the current Meteor one.

RickyGrassmuck commented 8 years ago

I'm actually working on making a meteor package now using the themoviedbsearch package as a template. I figured the api is simple enough that it could be ported over to just about any other framework with minimal fuss.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016, 1:59 PM loken notifications@github.com wrote:

Now do we add it to this (still not sure if I'll finish) version, or on the current Meteor one.

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RickyGrassmuck commented 6 years ago

Been done for a loooong time, probably should be closed lol.