Hello,
Similar to the show look up with other site's ids, I'd love to be able to search for an episode's IMDB ID and get to the right episode.
http://api.tvmaze.com/lookup/shows?imdb=tt0944947 just like this redirects to Game of Thrones, I'd like this
http://api.tvmaze.com/lookup/episodes?imdb=tt1480055 to redirect to Game of Thrones' pilot episode Winter is Coming
Right now, we don't store IDs at an episodic level, so it wouldn't be possible.
Then I suggest that episodic IDs be stored, or is this technically impossible?
It's unlikely that we'll add this in the near future. Technically it's easy to add support for it, but actually maintaining the data (manually adding and/or verifying up to hundreds of ids per show) would be a huge amount of work.
I can see how that would be a problem yes. The reason I requested it is because I already had a database of 2500 episodes I had watched with corresponding IMDB episode IDs. But since I discovered the TVMaze API, I wanted to use this site so I needed a way to translate those IDs to TVMaze's. I already found a way though.
For anyone else interested in this, I suggest that you use OMDb:
1. Get the contents of http://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt1480055
2. Extract the seriesID, Season & Episode properties (tt0944947, 1, 1 respectively)
3. Get the contents of http://api.tvmaze.com/lookup/shows?imdb=seriesID (tt0944947)
4. Get the id, then http://api.tvmaze.com/shows/id/episodebynumber?season=Season&number=Episode
This might not be 100% accurate as IMDb's episode numbering might not correspond to ours (i.e 2 part episodes, different episode ordering), hence why they'd have to be verified for each show.
