No contentRatings information available for series, only for episodes

[sgregori]

Using the v3 API, i get "USA: TV-14" for example when asking for series, but this information isn't available with the series using v4, only for specific episode.

/series/{id}/extended

No contentRatings information

/episodes/{id}/extended

"contentRatings": [
      {
        "id": 246,
        "name": "TV-14",
        "country": "usa",
        "description": "Not suitable for children under 14",
        "contentType": "",
        "order": 0,
        "fullname": null
      }
    ],

I can't found also the rating score, on v3 api represented as: ( score maybe? )

"rating":{
"thetvdb":8
},

[antheaezzell]

@sgregori let me discuss this with the team as a potential enhancement. You are right that we have lowered content rating down to the episode level for accuracy and that that is what is available on the v4 API. I assume you are looking for a rolled up rating by country at the series level?

[sgregori]

Hi, for me isn't necessary rating by country at series level.

At this moment i used the last episode contentRating as value for serie contentRating.

Its only because i writed a Synology VideoStation plugin that works as replacement for the actual plugin that uses V3 API.

At V3, there are USA contentRating for serie and episode, but at V4 its only available for each episode.

Another question is the number of calls to the api for getting same information, with V4 is higher thant V3, but i writed a file/url cache for lowering number of petitions when reindexing folders.

Thank you very much for your attention.

[antheaezzell]

Thank you for the explanation @sgregori I have ticketed your request for the API enhancement and will let you know when I discuss it with the developers.

Internal ticket for our reference: https://mediamorph.atlassian.net/browse/TVD-2722

[sgregori]

Very happy after reading the latest development newsletter.

Thanks

[antheaezzell]

Yes. This should be released very shortly. Maybe even today.

[antheaezzell]

@sgregori this was released in v4.5.4 let us know if it meets with your expectation.

[sgregori]

Seems nice, but some series that i checked, doesnt have any value at contentRating field. Finally i found one with content rating value as spected:

 "contentRatings": [
      {
        "id": 77,
        "name": "FSK 16",
        "country": "deu",
        "description": "Restricted to ages 16 and older",
        "contentType": "",
        "order": 0,
        "fullname": null
      },
      {
        "id": 176,
        "name": "12",
        "country": "prt",
        "description": "For viewers aged 12 or over; parental guidance required for children under 12",
        "contentType": "",
        "order": 0,
        "fullname": null
      },
      {
        "id": 247,
        "name": "TV-MA",
        "country": "usa",
        "description": "Not suitable for children and teens under 17",
        "contentType": "",
        "order": 0,
        "fullname": null
      }

[antheaezzell]

Do you remember which series you checked? Overall we have a pretty low fill rate for ratings since the feature was only added last year, but I can check the front-end to see if they are populated.

[sgregori]

I checked random series, i didnt remember at this time sorry.

I tried to fill some series information on thetvdb website, but ask me for series that i don't know, and i can't answer about them. Manual series adding will be nice.