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TV preview access
posted by Travis BellSTAFFMOD on October 4, 2013 at 12:47 PM
TV has been brought out of the private preview and is now available for everyone to see.
Please read the information below.
Please understand that this is indeed a preview. While there was plenty I could test while I was developing this feature on TMDb, being stuck in a vacuum like that can only expose so many things. If you find a bug please report it on this thread.
What I would like you guys to do is search for your favourite shows and look through the data that was imported. We're still importing data in the background so not all of your favourite shows will be here yet. This import is expected to take a few more days still (as of October 10, 2013). Please do not report missing shows until I have said the import is done.
When you're looking through things, there's one primary thing I would like you to keep an eye out for and that is, shows that should clearly have a season or more but don't. There was a small issue that seems to have affected a percentage of shows (I think around 2%) where their seasons were not imported. Please report those below.
What can you help with?
The data that was imported is real world editable data. If you see an error, fix it. This is the point of giving you guys access. With more of you trying to edit different things we'll discover the bugs and issues faster. There's a list of known issues below.
Known Issues / Pending Features
- LH-545 - Series/season/episode image upload dialogs don't show the right content
Closed Issues
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LH-568- Add the ability to add new TV shows -
LH-546- Write TV documentation -
LH-542- Credits are not yet sortable -
LH-543- TV credits do not yet show up on person pages -
LH-544- Favourite/watch list items are not viewable within your account -
LH-548- Seasons without a season number are not deletable -
LH-549- Season release dates aren't always saving -
LH-550- Season names are being saved lowercase -
LH-551- Adding a new cast member with the "add to every season" checked doesn't add them -
LH-555- Create a page to view a persons TV credits from a series page -
LH-554- Fix the ability to add episodes, improve cast callbacks -
LH-556- Restore the ability to add new seasons -
LH-559- Guest star character names are not editable -
LH-558- Show TV credits in the person search drop downs and known for credits in TV cast and crew pages -
LH-579- Allow the creation of new people via the TV edit dialogs
Import Status
The initial import of data for all 60,522 shows is complete.
Reply by Stuart Boston
on October 11, 2013 at 8:34 AM
I assume there will be API access, but do you have anything you can share at this time? I could run through my ~600 shows and see what fails.
Reply by apperrault
on October 11, 2013 at 8:57 AM
I would love access. Where is the data being loaded from? I love the content that we have here, and I know that the TV content will be just as great
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 11, 2013 at 9:26 AM
dictator and apperrault, your accounts have been enabled.
Not today but next week sometime. I'll mention it when there is something to play with.
Reply by dictator
on October 11, 2013 at 9:31 AM
Is there any documentation available? Since i was nog able to find any
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 11, 2013 at 9:35 AM
Not yet, it's what I plan on starting here this morning.
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 11, 2013 at 9:36 AM
I re-imported Red Dwarf. Check it out here: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/326-red-dwarf
Reply by dictator
on October 11, 2013 at 9:37 AM
Do you got the base API url for me ?
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 11, 2013 at 9:41 AM
There is no public API yet. This will be rolled out hopefully next week sometime.
Reply by Reinis
on October 11, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Would love to test TV data
Reply by Kaspars
on October 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM
I would like to test it out, thank you.
Reply by whatto
on October 11, 2013 at 10:35 AM
Hey man!
Would love to test this out as well, thanks
Reply by littlemind
on October 11, 2013 at 10:36 AM
Would also like to take a look. Thanks and keep up your awesome work!
Reply by Kenton Glass
on October 11, 2013 at 10:48 AM
I'd love to test and take a look. Thanks!
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 11, 2013 at 10:51 AM
The last five of you have been given access.
Reply by Michael Welter
on October 11, 2013 at 11:35 AM
I'm interested as well. Sorry if a duplicate, I submitted but I don't see my comment