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Inconsistency in 2 API data calls #298

Open antheaezzell opened 1 year ago

antheaezzell commented 1 year ago

Hello,

For the TV Show Big Brother (US) with tvdbId = 76706 I have noticed an inconsistent response from the v4 API between 2 different calls.

My project (seriesreminder.com) makes use of the episode data to send emails when episodes air. Currently I am using the /seasons/{id}/extended to retrieve episode data. It looks like the new series API call returns all the episodes in a single call, is that considered the best practice to get all the episode information? It appears this is what is being used for the main site. Should I switch to using it rather than looping over the seasons to get all the episodes?

When I use the URL : https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/series/76706/extended?meta=episodes&short=true

It responds with the same information that is on the TVDB website for Season 25 Episode 1 which is pasted here

{ "id": 9230248, "seriesId": 76706, "name": "Season Premiere", "aired": "2023-08-02", "runtime": 90, "nameTranslations": null, "overview": null, "overviewTranslations": null, "image": null, "imageType": null, "isMovie": 0, "seasons": null, "number": 1, "seasonNumber": 25, "lastUpdated": "2023-05-22 20:43:06", "finaleType": null, "year": "2023" }

The season id for season 25 is : 2063813

However, when I use the URL :

https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/seasons/2063813/extended I get the following payload which contains different data for the episode 9230248

{ "status": "success", "data": { "id": 2063813, "seriesId": 76706, "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Aired Order", "type": "official", "alternateName": null }, "number": 25, "nameTranslations": [], "overviewTranslations": [], "companies": { "studio": [], "network": [], "production": [], "distributor": [], "special_effects": [] }, "lastUpdated": "2023-05-16 21:00:51", "year": "2023", "episodes": [ { "id": 9230248, "seriesId": 76706, "name": "--Needs Deleted--", "aired": "2023-07-12", "runtime": null, "nameTranslations": [ "eng" ], "overview": null, "overviewTranslations": [], "image": null, "imageType": null, "isMovie": 0, "seasons": null, "number": 1, "seasonNumber": 25, "lastUpdated": "2023-05-16 21:00:51", "finaleType": null, "year": "2023" } ], "trailers": [], "artwork": [], "tagOptions": null } }

antheaezzell commented 1 year ago

Ticketed as a bug to look into. Internal ticket for our reference: https://whipmedia.atlassian.net/browse/TVD-3766