spenap
commented
10 years ago Back when I was most active, the popular website to look for TV series was http://thetvdb.com/, which had Free / Open Source API and database. Although TheMovieDb started with a similar open license, I couldn't find anything in their current license that supports that.
In my opinion, there are two possible options if you want to add TV Series support:
- Go for something simple / better integrated: if TheMovieDb give TV series, they will have a similar API, so adding support for it should be simple comparing to supporting a new web service.
- Go for something expected to stay open / reliable in the future. TheMovieDb went "low-profile" for many months back in 2012, I think, and it was looking as if they were going to close the website without giving the option to dump a database backup. Going for something already open where you can download everything and keep your app alive would be better in that sense.
However, again this all depends on medium and long term goals. For a project like Butaca, it is probably better to think in short term, and simply keep the code a bit abstract so adding other backends in an hypothetical future is not impossible, and going now for TMDb instead of thetvdb.
mporsch
Should butaca list TV series as well?
Technically surely possible. I.e. add TV_credits to the API request here https://github.com/mporsch/butaca/blob/master/src/qml/PersonView.qml#L183