Add-on:The TVDB

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The TVDB
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/frodo/metadata.tvdb.com/icon.png

Author: Team XBMC

Type: TV information
Repo:

Summary: Fetch TV show metadata from TheTVDB.com
Home icon grey.png   ▶ Add-ons ▶ The TVDB

TheTVDB.com is a TV Scraper. The site is a massive open database that can be modified by anybody and contains full meta data for many shows in different languages. All content and images on the site have been contributed by their users for users and have a high standard or quality. The database schema and website are open source under the GPL.


Scraper settings

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Use DVD order
Use DVD order instead of broadcast order.
Use absolute ordering (single season)
Treat show as having only one season so that file names only require episode numbers. Often used for single series and anime. See here for how to name such files.
Enable fanart
Download Fanart or not.
Prefer posters
Download posters instead of banners. Be sure to also toggle the layout setting for your skin: For Confluence (default skin) see: Add-on:Confluence/Settings#TV_shows
Language
Language to use for summaries and other metadata.



See also