Pasting in "Right.Now.Kapow" finds nothing until the "." are replaced with spaces.
As far as I'm aware, it removes the dots, so it's actually searching for RightNowKapow which doesn't match anything.
If you're searching for A.P.B. (the 2017 show) it wouldn't make sense for it to be treated as A P B (whereas acronyms are written either letter-by-letter or letter dot letter)
Yes, it could probably separately remove it, then failing that check it with spaces, however I expect the problem isn't widespread enough to warrant doing that; you're better off doing it client side, replacing with spaces if necessary.
Yeah, this is something that should be done on the client side.
Aidan wrote:
Yeah, this is something that should be done on the client side.
I was talking about the tvmaze.com www page's search feature, as opposed to the API. If it is the API, then sure, client side. :)
lundman wrote:
I was talking about the tvmaze.com www page's search feature, as opposed to the API. If it is the API, then sure, client side. :)
Only logical thing I can think is that you're copying and pasting from a source which is using dot separated format (there's no reason for you to type it in with dots).
If it's a website, it should be pretty easy to create a userscript that replaces the dots / links to the search page.
gazza911 wrote:
Only logical thing I can think is that you're copying and pasting from a source which is using dot separated format (there's no reason for you to type it in with dots).
If it's a website, it should be pretty easy to create a userscript that replaces the dots / links to the search page.
That is correct, and it should have dots as specified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_%28warez%29#Naming
At the moment, both imdb and tvrage handle dotted names, so they are the defacto standard when looking new things up. If you want to compete with tvrage, you should too! Just check your logs and see how many failed searches are due to dotted names, go on :)