anidb import

Hey,,

Welcome to TVmaze and we're glad to hear that you like it here!

I completely understand you as I had to manually switch over more than 200 shows when I came here from another site, which is of course horrible!, but it is likely not going to happen as there hasn't been much support for this feature (AniDB). It creates a lot of work to create such tool for a very small group.

cheers,

Hi Bicka,

We're willing to talk about it internally. Since anidb makes it possible for users to export their lists, it might make it easier for us to build an importer.
We'll let you know the outcome once it has been decided.

cheers,

Jan

Hi Bicka,

We had a look at the anidb export and there isn't much we can do with it. We would need one of the following 3 (thetvdb, imdb, tvrage) ids's in order to match with our own id's. Since anidb doesn't provide any of it, a matching tool needs to be made by someone that will use the exported csv and add our id or any of the 3ids mentioned above.

This is toomuch work for us to do currently since we already have quite a ToDo list.
Maybe someone else is interested to try this or can offer some solutions?

But as things look now, we won't be taking any action ourselves.

cheers,

Jan

Thanks for taking your time to check it out Jan.

I'll be doing it manually then, I'm not too great at coding.
I have been adding requests for all the shows that were missing here, so that should at least help out other anime people to.

Cya around

I'm not sure if you realised Jan but there's multiple export formats:

HTML

XML

CSV

JSON - Probably the most useful

And if you'd rather have only specific information / more information than the exports you'd want to use actually exports, there's lots of other information - such as episode titles, airdates, etc that you can retrieve through it; see here. Obviously those mentioned above already have some available so it would be preferable to use them, but if necessary and when I have the time, I could look into exporting the information you need.

Obviously you still wouldn't be able to imdb / tvrage / thetvdb ID's as they simply don't store them, but with all that information potentially available, do you really need them?

Without an ID, it's a name by name match (that can be problematic for homonyms) + visual match for the rest and even then, you can run into problems. You can automate a bit the process but only to some extent and then, it becomes manual.

With an ID that can be linked (if the information is safe enough), you can do an automatic match. You're done.

I wouldn't even consider it without an ID no matter how much info the export comes with.

I have that problem in my field where I receive tons of listing of songs. Imagine the number of songs called "Feelings" along with all the different version of THE song "Feelings"... Without a proper workcode, you can't tell one from another without seeing the authors (visual/manual work).