Emby Identify Not Working

[Icedkoughiiee 0]

I am trying to use identify to identify a foreign TV show via IMDB id, why would it not be working? There is 100% an IMDB page for it.  It's working fine on some shows and not others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Abobader 3469]

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[Luke 42083]

Hi, I would suggest trying the tvdb id and see how that compares.

[Icedkoughiiee 0]

The show does not have a listing on tvdb.

Edited February 12, 2023 by Icedkoughiiee

[GrimReaper 4748]

16 minutes ago, Icedkoughiiee said:

The show does not have a listing on tvdb.

Neither does TVMaze, TMDB is practically void but at least it is listed:

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/218872-saavi-ki-savaari?language=en-US

OMDB returns some more info:

{"Title":"Saavi Ki Savaari","Year":"2022–","Rated":"N/A","Released":"22 Aug 2022","Runtime":"N/A","Genre":"Drama","Director":"N/A","Writer":"N/A","Actors":"Samridhi Shukla, Farman Haider, Fenil Umrigar","Plot":"This is the story of Saavi. A solution oriented, self reliant and happy go lucky girl from Ujjain, whose dream is to complete her education. She is the sole earner for her family and supports them with pride by driving a rickshaw.","Language":"Hindi","Country":"N/A","Awards":"N/A","Poster":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMDEzZTYxZjItMjRlMi00NzM3LWI2MjYtYzZhYmFlNDdlNjA5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTA1MDQ3OTI@._V1_SX300.jpg","Ratings":[],"Metascore":"N/A","imdbRating":"N/A","imdbVotes":"N/A","imdbID":"tt21346570","Type":"series","totalSeasons":"1","Response":"True"}

So you can put OMDB as your top preferred meta-scraper in your TV show library to get some details, TMDB as top scraper to get practically no details or fill-up missing data yourself on TMDB or create an entry on TVDB filling required data or populate metadata locally and lock the item afterwards. 

[pwhodges 2012]

2 hours ago, Icedkoughiiee said:

I am trying to use identify to identify a foreign TV show via IMDB id, why would it not be working? There is 100% an IMDB page for it.

What matters is whether the show is listed in the first metadata provider you have selected.  The IMDB id can be used to look it up because the other providers have it in their database, but Emby does not use IMDB as a source of metadata (because $$$).

Paul

[Happy2Play 9783]

Correct, just because Emby allows you to input a IMDB id doesn't mean it is getting any information from IMDB itself.  The ID is queried against Emby provided providers in the order you have them enabled.

 

OMDB does not need to be top provider but needs to be enabled.

2023-02-12 16:02:00.663 Info Server: http/1.1 POST http://‌‍‍homeserver‌:8096/emby/Items/RemoteSearch/Series?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=c156a0ed-8696-458b-8104-dbe42fcf0fa1&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.8.0.21&X-Emby-Language=en-us&reqformat=json. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/110.0.1587.41
2023-02-12 16:02:00.672 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/search?type=series&q=tt21346570&remote_id=tt21346570
2023-02-12 16:02:00.921 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/find/tt21346570?api_key=‌xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx‌&external_source=imdb_id
2023-02-12 16:02:00.989 Debug App: Throttling Tmdb by 231 ms
2023-02-12 16:02:01.228 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/configuration?api_key=‌xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx‌
2023-02-12 16:02:01.243 Info App: MovieDb settings: {"images":{"base_url":"http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/","secure_base_url":"https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/","backdrop_sizes":["w300","w780","w1280","original"],"logo_sizes":["w45","w92","w154","w185","w300","w500","original"],"poster_sizes":["w92","w154","w185","w342","w500","w780","original"],"profile_sizes":["w45","w185","h632","original"],"still_sizes":["w92","w185","w300","original"]},"change_keys":["adult","air_date","also_known_as","alternative_titles","biography","birthday","budget","cast","certifications","character_names","created_by","crew","deathday","episode","episode_number","episode_run_time","freebase_id","freebase_mid","general","genres","guest_stars","homepage","images","imdb_id","languages","name","network","origin_country","original_name","original_title","overview","parts","place_of_birth","plot_keywords","production_code","production_companies","production_countries","releases","revenue","runtime","season","season_number","season_regular","spoken_languages","status","tagline","title","translations","tvdb_id","tvrage_id","type","video","videos"]}
2023-02-12 16:02:01.244 Info HttpClient: GET https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=‌xxxxxxxx‌&plot=full&r=json&i=tt21346570
2023-02-12 16:02:01.585 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to ‌‍‍192.168.151.59‌. Time: 922ms. http://‌‍‍homeserver‌:8096/emby/Items/RemoteSearch/Series?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=c156a0ed-8696-458b-8104-dbe42fcf0fa1&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.8.0.21&X-Emby-Language=en-us&reqformat=json

 

Edited February 13, 2023 by Happy2Play

[Luke 42083]

It's a tough call but arguably we should remove IMDb id from the identify dialog.

[Happy2Play 9783]

Just now, Luke said:

It's a tough call but arguably we should remove IMDb id from the identify dialog.

Or add note that IMDB id will only be queried on Emby enabled metadata providers.

[Happy2Play 9783]

Edited February 13, 2023 by Happy2Play

[pwhodges 2012]

7 hours ago, Luke said:

It's a tough call but arguably we should remove IMDb id from the identify dialog.

I have a couple of times had a case where I couldn't find what I was looking for through a search on TVDB or TMDB, but using the IMDB id enabled me to get to it.  So I would view dropping it as a shame.  But adding information to make it clear that IMDB itself isn't accessed would certainly be a good move.

Paul