does not find some things on Subdivx

[rmichelena]

Bazarr 1.4.1

I have configured many providers, among them OS (.com) and Subdivx

manual search for Inspector Montalbano S09E03 only returns results from OS

however checking out Subdivx, there are Spanish subs there too (and are better!)

things to think about:

• Subdivx does not code language, everything there is supposed to be only Spanish, actually Latin American Spanish
• on Subdivx the subs are under "Il Commissario Montalbano", which is one of the alternate titles that Sonarr shows (and the actual original title), so that should be ok
• I also tried another show "Candice Renoir", this one does not have alternate titles, is the same everywhere, and for this one it does find subtitles on subdivx
• other Montalbano episodes find subs on other providers too (addic7ed, gestdown) but never subdivx

so could it be that on Subdivx it's only searching the main (English) title, and not the alternate ones? (among which is the original title too!)

[morpheus65535]

I can confirm that subdivx provider isn't using alternative_titles at all while searching, only the main title.

This would be a nice improvement but requires to rework the search logic. I'm open to PR if you're willing to give it a try. I don't have time for this right now.

[rmichelena]

is this only on Subdivx, or are many providers searching only by main title? main title (e.g. English if your Sonarr is configured so) is so often not the original one, which is the one most likely to get results...

[morpheus65535]

is this only on Subdivx, or are many providers searching only by main title? main title (e.g. English if your Sonarr is configured so) is so often not the original one, which is the one most likely to get results...

Short answer: it's up to each provider to decide.

Long answer: The way subliminal (on top of which Bazarr is built) let each provider implement requests to websites. This is done using the "query" method that may use video.title alone or video.alternative_titles if required. Many providers search using both but some don't.

[rmichelena]

Ok I've made some progress... I've been able to modify the Subdivx provider to use also the alternative titles... but it seems I've broken the logic that discards the non-matching season-episode combinations... so, some more work to do :)

[rmichelena]

DAMN IT!! just when I had nailed it, Subdivx totally revamped their site. Now nothing works, not my version nor the previous one. I don't think I'll be able to fix it, one thing is to have good logic and some python, another is to do webscraping scripts.

[morpheus65535]

It changed that much?

[rmichelena]

Totally... but now it should be simpler: the existing script was using GET with a query-constructed URL, and receiving HTML and parsing/scraping from it, and handling multiple pages. Now it's a POST request with query payload, and receives a response in JSON with all subtitles at once. So it should be much easier, but it's some work. I'm on it. ChatGPT is the one that's been helping me from the start, but lately it's become kinda reluctant to just write the complete code, nowadays it goes more like "here's an example" or "here's the concept".

[morpheus65535]

Keep up the good work! Thanks!

[rmichelena]

Ok !! code could be improved, but seems to work fine - finds and downloads. I have no idea how to post it to the repository, so I've just attached it here. subdivx_v5.py.zip

[rmichelena]

subdivx_v6.py.zip

they made a change again, subtle, but here taken into account

[morpheus65535]

Should be good in upcoming beta. Thanks!