Completed thesportsdb.org metadata connection

[Luke 42077]

What's very helpful actually is that their website displays suggested file names on the detail screen of each event, and this is in line with my thinking that they should be date based.

[brothom 177]

4 hours ago, Luke said:

What's very helpful actually is that their website displays suggested file names on the detail screen of each event, and this is in line with my thinking that they should be date based.

I can't believe I missed that. For event https://www.thesportsdb.com/event/2250315-eisbären-berlin-vs-kolner examples of filesnames are:

1) German DEL 2025-04-25 Eisbären Berlin vs Kolner.mkv
2) German DEL 2025-04-25 Eisbären Berlin vs Kolner.S2024-2025E200.mkv
3) German DEL 20250425 Eisbären Berlin vs Kolner.special

One thing that I personally don't like, is the sudden use of numerics in this format. 
My personal preference would be the second option because this is the format the "looks" like the tv show formatting most:

2) German DEL 2025-04-25 Eisbären Berlin vs Kolner.S2024-2025E200.mkv

However the above formatting still seems very strange to me. Being more like the TV show formatting does feel more natural and intuitive (at least in my opinion):
Seasonname ({seasondate}) - s{seasonyear}e{episode} - {home} vs {out}

Or in other words:
German DEL (2025-04-25) - s2024-2025e200 - Eisbaren Berlin vs Kolner

This also makes the formatting hierarchy a little more sensible since each step in the file name represents a step, just like tv-show formats do:
X:\Media\Sports\German DEL\German DEL (2025-04-25)\German DEL (2025-04-25) - s2024-2025e200 - Eisbaren Berlin vs Kolner.mkv

[Luke 42077]

There is now a SportsDb plugin in the Emby plugin catalog. It works with the TV content type and file naming based on the recommended file names on the SportsDb event pages. In other words, click on an event and at the bottom you will see suggested file names.

I believe the entire file name gets sent to SportsDb for the lookup, which means you'll need to strictly follow these conventions or it will be unlikely to match. 

Enjoy.

[crusher11 1101]

How does this integrate people? ie, will my server recognise the Michael Jordan who played for the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s as the same person who starred in Space Jam?

[MBSki 1114]

On 8/1/2025 at 1:23 PM, Luke said:

There is now a SportsDb plugin in the Emby plugin catalog. It works with the TV content type and file naming based on the recommended file names on the SportsDb event pages. In other words, click on an event and at the bottom you will see suggested file names.

I believe the entire file name gets sent to SportsDb for the lookup, which means you'll need to strictly follow these conventions or it will be unlikely to match. 

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see where there's an option to click on an event. I'm going here: NFL 2024 season Miami Dolphins schedual - TheSportsDB.com, but the only clickable options take me to another page. Nothing takes me to the specific event.

[Luke 42077]

2 hours ago, MBSki said:

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see where there's an option to click on an event. I'm going here: NFL 2024 season Miami Dolphins schedual - TheSportsDB.com, but the only clickable options take me to another page. Nothing takes me to the specific event.

From there I don’t know but on the home page there are events you can click on.

[crusher11 1101]

8 hours ago, crusher11 said:

How does this integrate people? ie, will my server recognise the Michael Jordan who played for the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s as the same person who starred in Space Jam?

@Luke

[Luke 42077]

17 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

@Luke

I would think so but you’ll have to just try it.

[Chiholam 3]

On 01/08/2025 at 18:23, Luke said:

There is now a SportsDb plugin in the Emby plugin catalog. It works with the TV content type and file naming based on the recommended file names on the SportsDb event pages. In other words, click on an event and at the bottom you will see suggested file names.

I believe the entire file name gets sent to SportsDb for the lookup, which means you'll need to strictly follow these conventions or it will be unlikely to match. 

Enjoy.

Can't see it in my Emby - although I'm using the Synology Package centre one, and it's 4.8.8.0-725080800; which I think is very old.  Should I be ditching the Synology one, and finding another version/install?

[Chiholam 3]

Just realised that I'm stupid, and that I prviously downloaded and installed it myself, and not from synology package center itself! Problem solved!

[scottybates1114 0]

On 8/4/2025 at 1:12 PM, Luke said:

I would think so but you’ll have to just try it.

I have tried this but people do not pull in. 

And when you look at this .nfo file from thesportsdb, it seems to confirm that this not currently in the framework to pull in
https://www.thesportsdb.com/nfo/1818509

[Luke 42077]

2 minutes ago, scottybates1114 said:

I have tried this but people do not pull in. 

And when you look at this .nfo file from thesportsdb, it seems to confirm that this not currently in the framework to pull in
https://www.thesportsdb.com/nfo/1818509

HI, that what exactly is not in the "framework to pull in" ?

[scottybates1114 0]

by that i mean, in the nfo file, there is no player information designed to pull into emby. Which for me is the main draw of thesportsdb. it has such great information but it's getting lost. Ideally the player information and metadata the match page of thesportsdb would pull in as cast information in emby. Thanks for your time.

https://www.thesportsdb.com/event/1818509-chelsea-vs-manchester-city

https://www.thesportsdb.com/nfo/1818509

[Luke 42077]

18 hours ago, scottybates1114 said:

by that i mean, in the nfo file, there is no player information designed to pull into emby. Which for me is the main draw of thesportsdb. it has such great information but it's getting lost. Ideally the player information and metadata the match page of thesportsdb would pull in as cast information in emby. Thanks for your time.

https://www.thesportsdb.com/event/1818509-chelsea-vs-manchester-city

https://www.thesportsdb.com/nfo/1818509

OK I think this should work with the 1.0.2 update to the sportsdb plugin. Thanks.

[scottybates1114 0]

Can you explain what the metadata sync process is here? All I could find was naming the file/event properly and all should pull in.

I saw that my plugin updated to 1.0.2 but didn't notice any change.

Separately, I found this nfo generator but I reckon this is a stopgap until the full sync is mapped. https://tsdb.club/nfogenerator.php

Thank you!

[bretswinney 22]

What is the folder structure need for this to work?

[Luke 42077]

21 hours ago, bretswinney said:

What is the folder structure need for this to work?

Hi, please see my comment here:

 

[scottybates1114 0]

On 10/12/2025 at 2:25 PM, scottybates1114 said:

Can you explain what the metadata sync process is here? All I could find was naming the file/event properly and all should pull in.

I saw that my plugin updated to 1.0.2 but didn't notice any change.

Separately, I found this nfo generator but I reckon this is a stopgap until the full sync is mapped. https://tsdb.club/nfogenerator.php

Thank you!

Hi Luke, anything on this? regarding the sync process? I have typed in the match id into the emby Identify screen. My hope from here is refreshing the metadata would pull in my aforementioned expectation: active players as cast as well as other metadata from thesportsdb.

Thanks!

[Luke 42077]

44 minutes ago, scottybates1114 said:

Hi Luke, anything on this? regarding the sync process? I have typed in the match id into the emby Identify screen. My hope from here is refreshing the metadata would pull in my aforementioned expectation: active players as cast as well as other metadata from thesportsdb.

Thanks!

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

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[ohai 0]

Plugin seems mostly functional. Is there any way we can get a configuration option to set an API key for it? I have a thesportsdb API key that I would like to put to use via the plugin, if possible.

[Luke 42077]

5 minutes ago, ohai said:

Plugin seems mostly functional. Is there any way we can get a configuration option to set an API key for it? I have a thesportsdb API key that I would like to put to use via the plugin, if possible.

Hi, that sounds like a reasonable thing to add.