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Some music videos just do not scrape


Posted: 11 Jan 2022 02:22
Damorsoft
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Joined: 2020-08-14

The following music videos are causing my KODI to not scrape
manual editing of songs in KODI library takes care of the ? and / issues.

However these Just will not scrape
Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941.mp4
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Young Girl.mp4
Guns N' Roses - Since I Don't Have You.mp4
Supertramp - It's Raining Again.mp4
maybe it is something I'm doing wrong..

? will not scrape.
Charles & Eddie - Would I lie to you?.mp4
Deana Carter - Did I Shave My Legs For This?.mp4
Enya - How Can I Keep From Singing?.mp4
Linda Ronstadt - When Will I Be Loved?.mp4
Shania Twain - Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?.mp4
Toby Keith - How Do You Like Me Now?!.mp4
Toby Keith - Who's Your Daddy?.mp4

/ will not scrape
The Spinners - Working My Way Back to You / Forgive Me Girl
Linda McCartney - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey.mp4
The New Seekers - Pinball Wizard / See Me Feel Me.mp4

+ will not scrape
Mike + The Mechanics - All I Need Is A Miracle.mp4
Mike + The Mechanics - Silent Running.mp4

One more thing.. this music video is a one off from a concert is there anyway to add this one to theAudiodb.
Miley Cyrus - Landslide.mp4


Not so bad as over 1800 music videos did scrape..

Thanks for any help.


👍 zag
Posted: 11 Jan 2022 11:14
zag
Posts: 272
Joined: 2020-07-14

Yeh known issue with the Kodi scraper....

Basically the Kodi scraper is not encoding the characters correctly during its search with the searchtrack.php API method.

As an example you can type the search into the URL bar and it will give you what characters its using.

https://theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/##API KEY##/searchtrack.php?s=Guns%20N%27%20Roses&t=Since%20I%20Don%27t%20Have%20You

See how the apostrophe character has been encoded into %27 and spaces into %20. I'm unsure how python does it but this is the issue.

Posted: 12 Jan 2022 20:47
zag
Posts: 272
Joined: 2020-07-14

Yeh I was going to say, use NFO files in case of it not scraping, I know its annoying though.

Just needs someone with some python knowledge to fix the scraper, we can't do much here.

EDIT: I wonder if the guns and roses thing is the track name apostrophe...

Posted: 12 Jan 2022 21:36
Damorsoft
Posts: 20
Joined: 2020-08-14

Yeh I was going to say, use NFO files in case of it not scraping, I know its annoying though.

Just needs someone with some python knowledge to fix the scraper, we can't do much here.

EDIT: I wonder if the guns and roses thing is the track name apostrophe...

Not sure but I do have 8-9 other guns n roses and they all scrape fine.

I tried that alternate character set but could not find an alternate apostrophe

Well I got everything now but miley singing landslide, will have to wait for a concert dvd where she performs that one.




Posted: 13 Jan 2022 18:57
Damorsoft
Posts: 20
Joined: 2020-08-14

Yeh I was going to say, use NFO files in case of it not scraping, I know its annoying though.

Just needs someone with some python knowledge to fix the scraper, we can't do much here.

EDIT: I wonder if the guns and roses thing is the track name apostrophe...

Not sure but I do have 8-9 other guns n roses and they all scrape fine.

I tried that alternate character set but could not find an alternate apostrophe

Well I got everything now but miley singing landslide, will have to wait for a concert dvd where she performs that one.




👍 zag

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