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Hello!
I'm using the API to search for subtitles and I cannot understand some principles thus cannot find several shows. F.e. Harry's Law and Mike & Molly - I can find them alright via the web interface but no luck with API. I tried using entities instead of the & and apostrophe, tried substituting them with spaces and underscores but to no avail.
Is the API somehow limited and does not provide some series? Is there anyway I can find these shows via API? I need to be able to find them dynamically from my script, so I cannot use the ShowID.
Thanks a lot!

The API is not limited, only limited by the way you can search for certain shows.

For Harry's law you can search for "Harrys_Law" and for Mike & Molly: "mike_molly". The 3.0 version of the API should have better handling for shownames with these characters.

Our showid's are always the same, so you can still save them once you found them. This is also the way the API is intended to be used. GetShowByName should only be used once and then stored locally. Usually you only need "our" show ID.

Sypher, thanks for the reply!
Are there any common rules to search for the show with any special symbols in it's title? For example, any common rule like "an ampersand is always substituted with an underscore" or "an apostrophe is always omitted" and so on? Or there are no rules and we need just to test several different options until we found a correct showid?

Thanks for the tip about saving the showid locally, I will consider adding the local config file to my script.
Thank you!

So I tried to search in browser using the link http://api.bierdopje.com/MY_API_KEY_HERE/GetShowByName/Harrys_Law and I get the 'false' answer. The same with http://api.bierdopje.com/MY_API_KEY_HERE/GetShowByName/mike_molly

jinjiru wijzigde dit bericht op 12-02-2011 om 16:49, totaal 1 keer bewerkt

Anyone?

Have you already tried to put your API key in the link at "MY_API_KEY_HERE"?

kaanmijo wijzigde dit bericht op 18-02-2011 om 10:41, totaal 2 keer bewerkt

The cake is a lie.

GetShowByName behaves differently than FindShowByName.
The latter one does work however.

Quote:

kaanmijo schreef op vrijdag 18 februari 2011 @ 07:39: Have you already tried to put your API key in the link at "MY_API_KEY_HERE"?

Thanks for the tip about saving the showid locally, I will consider adding the local config file to my script.
Thank you!