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Return search results with year appended.

88keyz wrote 4 years ago: 1

When you append a year to the search query you get no results but it would be nice if it returned results for shows that were produced in that year.

https://www.tvmaze.com/search?q=Utopia

https://www.tvmaze.com/search?q=Utopia+2020

In the first example we get valid results but in the second example we get nothing.  The same results are observed with the API.

https://api.tvmaze.com/search/shows?q=Utopia

https://api.tvmaze.com/search/shows?q=Utopia+2020

This makes getting results for different shows produced in different years with the same name very difficult when no results are returned with the year appended to the title.  The same search with year appended at IMDb or TheTVDB returns valid results.

https://www.imdb.com/find?q=Utopia+2020

https://thetvdb.com/search?query=Utopia+2020

Not being able to append the production year to the title results in incorrect data returned for lots of shows that have the same title but different production years.

88keyz wrote 4 years ago: 1

While lots of shows may not have a country code associated with them nearly every show, if not every show, has a premier year associated with it.  Appending the premier year to the search query is an easy way to allow the end user to distinguish between common show names using data that is already available.

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