Sports metadata -- is there a way to automate this?

[flashls82 7]

Does anyone have tips and tricks to share for the cleanest/most automated way to get Emby to pull correct metadata for live recordings of sports? I have TheSportsDB plugin installed; it correctly scrapes info for individual games but only when the filename exactly matches TheSportsDB's suggested naming exactly, which requires renaming a recording after the fact. On top of that, I haven't found a way to get Emby to match the "show" name to the relevant league in TheSportsDB (e.g. NBA, NFL), even when I rename the folder with the show to the exact name and try to hard code the correct TheSportsDB id for that league in the metadata. 

Has anyone found a way to better automate the renaming that has to happen? And what is the best-case scenario for the leagues/show names -- just manually pull stuff and lock the item (and then I guess manually move episodes over to the right folder)?

[Luke 42917]

Hi, we’ll have to see what we can do with the guide data. For now I think you’re doing the right thing.

[flashls82 7]

On 7/14/2026 at 6:42 PM, Luke said:

Hi, we’ll have to see what we can do with the guide data. For now I think you’re doing the right thing.

One thing that could potentially help if there is "sports" tagging in guide data is to have sports recordings go to a separate library (which could then be configured with TheSportsDB as the primary metadata provider). But not sure what is/isn't tagged in the guide data.

[Luke 42917]

Yes and the guide data that we get does have the names of the teams, and i would assume the league name as well. 

I would think we could take advantage of that to name the files more like what sportsdb is expecting.