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Investigate TheTvDB alternative #402

Closed courville closed 2 years ago

courville commented 3 years ago

TheTVDB has notified nova that after change of API to v4, there will be a change of licensing and might become a paid service for apps and users. It means that probably we need to evolve towards a new online db for tv show scrape.

courville commented 3 years ago

cf. https://www.reddit.com/r/NovaVideoPlayer/comments/jvousc/thetvdb_alternative/

mschumacher69 commented 3 years ago

From the email that I received, it says "License fees are based primarily on usage, company size, and how the data is used."

So maybe because Nova is a free and open source app with no source of income whatsoever (not even ads), you'll get an api license for free (hopefully).

courville commented 3 years ago

@mschumacher69 this is what I hope and replied on reddit. But let's keep this issue open to list alternatives and record what other communities are leaning towards.

bronnel commented 3 years ago

I hope they will give NOVA a free license , v3 of tvdb will continue to work until march 2021 then v4 will take its place , with a yearly fee of $11 or so . Here a discussion about a free alternative on kodi forums https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=352588 https://www.theshowdb.com/

here is another free alternative https://www.tvmaze.com/

and there is always themoviedb

courville commented 3 years ago

OK reading https://github.com/UweTrottmann/SeriesGuide/issues/762 suggests that we need to switch.

mschumacher69 commented 3 years ago

If trakt and seriesguide are moving away, I guess you're gonna have to follow suit.

Don't trakt provide episode data, posters and backdrops via their API?

I mean't can't you pull episode data from their API or is their API just for syncing watch progress?

bronnel commented 3 years ago

@courville thank you for switching to TMDb for tv show data, it is the right move, everyone is getting away from TVDB, TVDB was build by the userbase community and now they are asking money for data that was provided by the userbase, well they should go and F**k themselves.

courville commented 3 years ago

@courville thank you for switching to TMDb for tv show data, it is the right move, everyone is getting away from TVDB, TVDB was build by the userbase community and now they are asking money for data that was provided by the userbase, well they should go and F**k themselves.

not finished yet but soon.

bronnel commented 3 years ago

thank you , no problem take your time with it, TMDB is perfect , I read somewhere that users are now uploading their data to TMDB instead of TVDB, which means more support and that's what we want.

courville commented 3 years ago

Adapting the code to TMDB, I am optimizing the scraping process with caching that should boost the tvshow scraping speed. .. Now I need to iron out all the corner cases.

bronnel commented 3 years ago

@courville Great work this would be really awesome.

bronnel commented 3 years ago

@courville I have one suggestion , in future when you release tmdb for shows, I think it is a good approach not to get rid of tvdb completely , what I think is best is that you can make new option in preferences where the user chooses the source for tv shows data scraping , it should either be tvdb or tmdb, I think it is a good choice , just in case we get a free license from tvdb, I really like this idea , do you agree?

mschumacher69 commented 3 years ago

Agreed, especially that thetvdb has a per user license as well, so if any user pays for thetvdb subscription, they can make use of it in nova.

courville commented 3 years ago

@bronnel and @mschumacher69 in principle I agree with you and this is what I did initially but I ended up with difficult code to maintain. For now unfortunately this is not what is implemented.

courville commented 2 years ago

v6 only uses tmdb: closing.

Squall-Leonhart commented 6 months ago

shame, the people saying tmdb is perfect obviously have a dog in the race, as TMDB is incomplete, has wrong episode listing and no obvious way to identify what episodes are which via their slow website.

mschumacher69 commented 6 months ago

shame, the people saying tmdb is perfect obviously have a dog in the race, as TMDB is incomplete, has wrong episode listing and no obvious way to identify what episodes are which via their slow website.

You do know that TMDB is maintained by the community, so you can update incomplete shows yourself.