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The TV Show lookup scraper relies on the following naming conventions in order to work as intended.
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== Directory structure and file names ==
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XBMC needs a TV show folder with just the TV show name and then it needs file names that contain both episode numbers and season numbers (optional, see below). There can be season/year/whatever folders between the TV show folder and the episode files, but XBMC will not use these to figure out what the seasons are. While XBMC and scrapers can sometimes be forgiving of extra data in the file name, it's best to keep it simple and avoid extra text outside of the examples below (such as group names, resolution, etc). Advanced users can tweak the matching patterns that XBMC uses for this with regex and [[advancedsettings.xml#.3Ctvshowmatching.3E|these advancedsettings.xml settings]].
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;Directory layout example
<headertabs />
:{|
|
<pre>
TV Shows
  |----TV Show 1
  |      |----Season #
  |            |--Files
  |----TV Show 2 (year)
  |      |--Files
  |----TV Show 3
  |      |----2008
  |            |--Files
</pre>
|}
;Default TV show folder naming conventions
*'''(year)''' - can be helpful for some TV Shows such as "Battlestar Galactica", "Doctor Who" and "Knight Rider" which can yield multiple results.
:Name
:Name (year)
 
===Shows with seasons===
;Default episode file naming conventions
*'''name''' - can be the TV show name, episode name, something else, or you can exclude the name and only have the season and episode numbers. You can also place the name after the season and episode numbers.
*'''ext''' - The file extension, such as .mkv, .avi, .iso, etc.
*'''Spaces''' and underscores are interchangeable in the examples below.
*'''Periods''' can be used to break up text, but '''they cannot be used''' in between '''episode-number''' and '''episode-names''' that start with a'''number'''. For e.g. name.s01e01.1.0.ext (episode name is one poin zero} so must become name.s01e01_1.0.ext
:''name''.s01e01.''ext''
:''name''.s01.e01.''ext''
:''name''.s01_e01.''ext''
:''name'' [s01] [e01].''ext''
:''name''.1x01.''ext''
:''name''.101.''ext''
 
;Defaults for two-part TV Show Episode will match:
:''name''.s01e01-02.''ext''
:''name''_[s01]_[e01-02]_.''ext''
:''name''.1x01.1x02.''ext''
 
;Same with three- or four-part TV Show Episode:
:''name''.s01e01-02-03-04.''ext''
:''name''_[s01]_[e01-02-03-04]_.''ext''
:''name''.1x01.1x02.1x03.1x04.''ext''
 
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To emphasize, you can also use any of the above examples with just the season/episode numbers:
:101.''ext''
:s01e01.''ext''
:01x01.''ext''
:etc
 
===Shows without seasons or only one season===
Single or no season shows, such as anime or many types of one-off series (including miniseries) will not have a season number. To scan in shows like this we use scrapers that support "absolute ordering", such as the [[TheTVDB.com (Video Library)|TVDB.com]] scraper. '''To use this you must change the [[Video_library/Setting_content_and_scanning#TV_show_content_options|scraper settings]] to use the absolute ordering option.''' This setting can be set on individual TV show folders, so that your default settings for all TV shows can support TV show seasons, or vice versa. See [[#DVD order]]for an example of how that would be set up. Absolute ordering can also simply be the default setting for an entire source if all TV shows within that source only have one/no season.
 
Naming conventions for absolute order follow similar conventions to normal episodes, but require "ep" rather than just "e" for the episode, and (obviously) do not have a season number.
 
;Default episode file naming conventions
* '''name -''' As mentioned above, ''name'' is optional and can be after or before the episode number.
:''name'' ep01.''ext''
:''name''.ep01.''ext''
:''name'' ep 01.''ext''
 
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==DVD order==
In TV Shows with series like '''Firefly''' you can set for instance the main TV Shows and set content to [[TheTVDB.com (Video Library)|TVDB]] with regular scraper settings, say '''No''' to scrapping content at this time, then navigate your way to the Firefly folder and set sub-content setting TVDB and changing scraper settings to.
# Folder contains a single TV show
# Either to absolute ordering single season or DVD order
# Scan everything by saying yes when you get prompted by XBMC at this time.
 
'''e.g.''' This will set main source with normal content and sub-folder with specific settings.
<pre>
TV Shows                  <<TVDB normal Settings all seasons>>
  |----TV Show 1
  |      |----Season 0
  |            |--Files
  |----TV Show 2
  |      |----Season #
  |            |--Files
  |----Firefly            <<TVDB Settings altered for single season and DVD order or absolute ordering>>
  |      |----Files
</pre>
 
== Multi-part episodes ==
Handling of multi-part episodes (two part episodes in one file, multiple episodes in DVD images, etc.) is supported. The first matched tvshowmatching regexp and "[-EeXx]+([0-9]+)" will be repeatedly applied against a file name until no more seasons or episodes are found.
;This allows for file names such as:
:showname_s01e01e02e03_s02e01e02
:showname.104-05-06-201-02
:showname.1x07x08x09
 
To break the file up in episodes that XBMC can work with you will have to create an nfo file with <epbookmark> tags.
More information can be found on the [[Import - Export Library#TV Episodes|Import - Export Library]] page.
 
Note that when using a custom RegExp to match a custom file naming convention, add (.*) to the end of the RegExp so that the 3rd RegExp capture is found for the second episode.
 
<!--== Multi-file episodes ==
'''This feature has been temporarily disabled, the plan is to implement it in a better fashion at a future date.'''<br />
You can stack multiple files into one episode.
For that to be available the [[Videos Settings#Library|Stack Duplicate TV Shows]] Video Library setting needs to be enabled.
All the files must have the same season and episode number and they all have to be in the same folder. (This is to prevent unwanted stacking of true duplicates in different folders). The items will be automatically stacked in sequential order based off the filenames being sorted in a "natural" order (like this: -part1.avi, -part2.avi, ..., -part10.avi.)-->
 
== TV Show specials ==
Special episodes are currently supported with [[TheTVDB.com (Video Library)|TheTVDB.com]] scraper. In order for the XBMC scraper regular expressions to recognize them, they should be part of season 0. (Specials naming order can be observed in the Specials Season of the relevant TV show at[http://TheTVDB.com TheTVDB.com]).
;Example
:[http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=76736&seasonid=24194&lid=7 Black Adder's Christmas Carol] should have a file name that matches season 0 episode 3 (e.g. contain s00e03).
 
<pre>
TV Shows
  |----BlackAdder
  |      |----Season 0
  |            |--filename.s00e01.tittle.*
  |            |--BlackAdder.s00e03.Blackadder's Christmas Carol.*
  |            |--etc...
</pre>
 
== Tweaking matches ==
''You can also use [[Add-on:XWMM]] to edit library entires from a web browser.''
 
=== The scraper picks the wrong TV Show ===
You can influence the search by having [[Import - Export Library#Video nfo Files|nfo]] files alongside your media
 
You can also try appending the year to the TV Show folder-name. (Note the showname on the selected site to be scraped must then include the year).
This might be needed for some TV Shows such as "Battlestar Galactica", "Doctor Who", "Jericho", and "Knight Rider" which will have multiple entries on a given TV metadata database because of remakes of the original show.
 
See the examples below:
<pre>
\TV Shows\Battlestar Galactica\Season 1\Battlestar Galactica - S01E01.avi (TheTVDB omits the year from the original shows)
\TV Shows\Battlestar Galactica 2003\Season 1\Battlestar Galactica - S01E01.avi (Remakes will include year at theTVDB.com)
\TV Shows\Cupid 1998\Season 1\Cupid - S01E01.avi
\TV Shows\Cupid 2003\Season 1\Cupid - S01E01.avi
\TV Shows\Cupid 2009\Season 1\Cupid - S01E01.avi
\TV Shows\Doctor Who\Season 1\Doctor Who - S01E01.avi
\TV Shows\Doctor Who 2005\Season 1\Doctor Who - S01E01.avi
\TV Shows\Jericho 1995\Season 1\Jericho - S01E01.avi
\TV Shows\Jericho 2006\Season 1\Jericho - S01E01.avi
\TV Shows\Knight Rider 1982\Season 1\Knight Rider - S01E01.avi
\TV Shows\Knight Rider 2008\Season 1\Knight Rider - S01E01.avi
</pre>
Note! "AVI" is just an example, as this applies to all video formats that XBMC supports.
 
Another good example is Merlin (which gets picked up as Mr Merlin series from 70's)and Merlin 2008 (which gets picked up as the current Merlin Series.
A directory structure should look something like.
 
<pre>
TV Shows
  |----Merlin 2008
  |      |----Season #
  |            |--Files
</pre>
 
[[File:Therenamer.JPG|right|thumb|500px|Settings can be changed to use '''s01e01''' or '''1x01''' or '''101''' capitalizing the S or E depending on how you like it.]]
To further simplify scraping you can cleanup the files before adding them to XBMC with [[Supplemental tools]]
An example of the settings for a popular tool [[Therenamer]] which should conform with the above naming conventions.
 
{{-}}
 
=== Custom directory structure and file names ===
You can make your own naming conventions / rules by adding or editing regular expressions in the [[advancedsettings.xml]] file, with the[[advancedsettings.xml#.3Ctvshowmatching.3E|tvshowmatching]] tag. When enumerating episodes for a series, XBMC '''only''' cares about the season and episode, so when designing regexps you should '''only''' be concerned with these things.
 
Here are several common naming schemes and corresponding regexps and examples.
 
'''\Season #\##''' (Season# is at very end of directory name, and filename starts with episode name, neither have to be a specific number of digits) :
<source lang="xml">
<tvshowmatching>
    <regexp>Season[\._ ]([0-9]+)[\\/]([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
</source>
'''Example''' : \Battlestar Galactica\Season 3\01 - Occupation.avi (Season 3, Episode 1)
 
 
'''###''' ([season#][episode#] with nothing in between all in filename, assumes episode number is always 2 digits) :
<source lang="xml">
<tvshowmatching>
    <regexp>([0-9]+)([0-9][0-9])[^\\/]*</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
</source>
'''Example''' : \24\Season 6\601 - 6:00am to 7:00am.avi (Season 6, Episode 1)<br />
'''Example 2''' : \Lost\Season 1\Lost - 101.avi (Season 1, Episode 1)<br />
'''Example 3''' : \24\601 - 6:00am to 7:00am.avi (Season 6, Episode 1)
 
 
'''##x##''' ([season#]x[episode#] all in filename :
<source lang="xml">
<tvshowmatching>
  <regexp>([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
</source>
'''Example''' : \Scrubs\Season 1\1x01.Pilot.avi (Season 1, Episode 1)
 
If you use leading 0's (for example, \Scrubs\01x01 - Pilot.avi instead of 1x1), and are having difficulty getting the TV Show scraper to work, try
 
'''##x##''' ([season#]x[episode#] all in filename :
<source lang="xml">
<tvshowmatching>
  <regexp>[0]*([0-9]+)x[0]*([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
</source>
'''Example''' : \Scrubs\Season 1\01x01.Pilot.avi (Season 1, Episode 1)
which simply strips leading 0's from the result.
 
'''s##e##''' (s[season#]e[episode#] at beginning of filename)
<source lang="xml">
<tvshowmatching>
  <regexp>[\\/]s([0-9]+)e([0-9]+)</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
</source>
'''Example''' : videos\mytv-comedy\Scrubs\season 1\s01e01 - Pilot (hdtv.xvid).avi
 
'''Season ## - Episode ##''' (Season [season#] - Episode [episode#] in the beginning or middle of filename)
<source lang="xml">
<tvshowmatching>
  <regexp>Season ([0-9]+) - Episode ([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
</source>
'''Example''' : TV Shows\Scrubs\Season 1\Scrubs - Season 1 - Episode 01 - Pilot.avi
 
'''TV Shows in DVD Folders'''
Using the same directory structures as above, you can name DVD folders by adding the following xml to advancedsettings.xml. This information was gleaned from [[forum:55497|this forum thread]].
<source lang="xml">
<tvshowmatching append="no">
    <regexp>\[[Ss]([0-9]+)\]_\[[Ee]([0-9]+)\]?([^\\/]*)(?:(?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
    <regexp>[\._ \[\-\\/]([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)([^\\/]*)(?:(?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
    <regexp>[Ss]([0-9]+)[\.\-]?[Ee]([0-9]+)([^\\/]*)(?:(?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
    <regexp>[\._ \-\\/]([0-9]+)([0-9][0-9])([\._ \-][^\\/]*)(?:(?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
  </tvshowmatching>
</source>
===Understanding Season Ordering Options===
Please see the thetvdb [[Add-on:The_TVDB#Understanding_Season_Ordering_on_theTVDB.com|scraper settings page]] for information on how to set season ordering correctly ''for each folder'' to match your naming.<br />
 
 
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