metaz Movie/TV Show lookup Fails

I don't know if this project is still active, but whenever I attempt to lookup a Movie/TV Show, I get nothing returned. Looking at the log, it is attempting to use https://tagchimp.com which does not appear to respond to request.

Is there a fix for this?

Dec 12 '18 22:12 tscrip

A couple of weeks ago the lookup for movies failed but the TV lookup still works

Feb 18 '19 19:02 agewanter

I am also getting this recently.

2019-08-01 12:33:57.822 MetaZ[1117:666351] [lvl=1] -[MZOperationsController operationFinished:] Finished operation
2019-08-01 12:33:57.822 MetaZ[1117:666351] [lvl=1] -[MZOperationsController operationFinished:] Sending operationsFinished
2019-08-01 12:33:57.944 MetaZ[1117:666351] [lvl=2] -[SearchController doSearch:] Starting search 1
2019-08-01 12:33:57.944 MetaZ[1117:666351] [lvl=1] -[TheTVDBPlugin searchWithData:delegate:queue:] Sent request to TheTVDB
2019-08-01 12:33:58.285 MetaZ[1117:668138] [lvl=1] -[MZOperationsController operationFinished:] Finished operation
2019-08-01 12:33:58.285 MetaZ[1117:668138] [lvl=1] -[MZOperationsController operationFinished:] Not all finished <MZHTTPRequest: 0x7faf4e58a470>
2019-08-01 12:33:58.306 MetaZ[1117:668138] [lvl=1] -[TheTVDBSearch fetchSeriesFailed:] Request failed with status code 404
2019-08-01 12:33:58.306 MetaZ[1117:668138] [lvl=1] -[TheTVDBSearch fetchSeriesFailed:] Request failed with data <html>

Aug 01 '19 17:08 tebruno99

I've just taken a look and it looks like the tvdb api has moved to a version 2 which is a new URL and requires authentication

Aug 01 '19 22:08 jamesnewby

Is this going to be able to be fixed or does it make Metaz DOA

Aug 02 '19 03:08 mystic1031

Not only does it require auth, it seems like the current code (https://github.com/griff/metaz/blob/develop/Plugins/TheTVDB/src/TheTVDBSearch.m#L166) expects XML, but the new TVDB API uses JSON (https://api.thetvdb.com/swagger#!/Search/)

This probably means the whole TheTVDB plugin would need to be updated to work with the new API, and since a user/pass is now required, there's also probably some UI work that needs to be done in the preferences window.

So, I think this can be fixed (technically speaking that is), but it would probably require some serious work. I'm ~not very good~terrible at writing Objective-C, so I don't think I can really contribute anything here.

Aug 02 '19 07:08 martijnengler

It seems to have been a temporary downtime of the version 1 API. It looks to be working again.

Aug 06 '19 16:08 griff

But now I have rewritten the two search plugins from scratch in Swift and am now using the newest API version for TheTVDB and have added support for getting data about TV shows from TheMovieDb

Mar 17 '20 19:03 griff