Linked Movies as Specials Are Missing Title and Overview

[markus101]

Specials that are movies linked to a series are missing both title and overview, in addition isMovie is 0.

Specials on TheTVDB:
https://thetvdb.com/series/violet-evergarden/seasons/official/0

API route requested:
https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/series/330139/episodes/official/eng

For brevity, these are the 3 specials that are returned, the first is a "proper" episode with all the expected information, the second and third are incomplete.

[
	{
		"id": 6497072,
		"seriesId": 330139,
		"name": "OVA: Surely, Someday You Will Understand \"Love\"",
		"aired": "2018-07-04",
		"runtime": 35,
		"nameTranslations": null,
		"overview": "Violet is hired by Irma, a famous opera singer, to write a letter for her for a soldier missing in action. However, Irma's requests for the letter are both vague and complex, making it difficult for Violet to write a letter that can satisfy her despite numerous rewrites.",
		"overviewTranslations": null,
		"image": "/banners/series/330139/episodes/5e918b8bea666.jpg",
		"imageType": 11,
		"isMovie": 0,
		"seasons": null,
		"number": 1,
		"seasonNumber": 0,
		"lastUpdated": "2023-04-08 20:44:33",
		"finaleType": "season",
		"airsBeforeSeason": 1,
		"airsBeforeEpisode": 5,
		"year": "2018"
	},
	{
		"id": 9513839,
		"seriesId": 330139,
		"name": null,
		"aired": "2019-09-06",
		"runtime": 90,
		"nameTranslations": null,
		"overview": null,
		"overviewTranslations": null,
		"image": null,
		"imageType": null,
		"isMovie": 0,
		"seasons": null,
		"number": 2,
		"seasonNumber": 0,
		"lastUpdated": "2022-12-19 21:39:40",
		"finaleType": null,
		"airsAfterSeason": 1,
		"year": "2019"
	},
	{
		"id": 9513840,
		"seriesId": 330139,
		"name": null,
		"aired": "2020-09-18",
		"runtime": 140,
		"nameTranslations": null,
		"overview": null,
		"overviewTranslations": null,
		"image": null,
		"imageType": null,
		"isMovie": 0,
		"seasons": null,
		"number": 3,
		"seasonNumber": 0,
		"lastUpdated": "2022-12-19 21:41:56",
		"finaleType": "season",
		"airsAfterSeason": 1,
		"year": "2020"
	}
]

This issue also affects other series, such as https://thetvdb.com/series/that-time-i-got-reincarnated-as-a-slime/seasons/official/0

[antheaezzell]

@markus101 this appears to be a bug in the API. It's been ticketed and I'll let you know when it is out.
https://whipmedia.atlassian.net/browse/TVD-3714

[ekleop]

moreover, episodes endpoint (https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/series/330139/episodes/default) without "/eng" language variable has "linkedMovie" key for the movie entries. In this one it's lost.

[antheaezzell]

I've added the data @ekleop but this ticket is still in grooming.

[Marly212]

Is there anything new to resolve this issue? It's already 6 weeks old now.

[antheaezzell]

This will be handled in a few weeks @Marly212. We are working with reduced resources at the moment.

[Marly212]

Any new Updates regarding this issue?

[antheaezzell]

We have a PR against it, but our platform engineer is on vacation. I think it'll be another week. My apologies @Marly212

[Marly212]

Is your platform engineer back from vacation yet?

[antheaezzell]

@Marly212 @ekleop @markus101 we just released this last night. Please let me know if you continue to experience issues.

https://github.com/thetvdb/v4-api/releases/tag/v4.7.8

[fatSquirrel42]

Disclaimer: I can't test these things directly with the API because I don't have an API key.

I've noticed the same error with my workflow, which is organizing my files with Sonarr and importing them into Jellyfin. I also did my testing with the Violet Evergarden specials. https://thetvdb.com/series/violet-evergarden/seasons/official/0

The "name" field appears to be fixed. At least Sonarr gets the proper titles. Jellyfin can't find the name for https://thetvdb.com/series/violet-evergarden/episodes/9513840 but that might be a problem on Jellyfin's end.

I noticed that in the original post, the "image" fields were null. Have you already taken that into account? All I can say is that Jellyfin only finds one image for the non-movie special https://thetvdb.com/series/violet-evergarden/episodes/6497072 but not for the other two. I could also imagine that Jellyfin finds an image but the imageType is wrong. Maybe someone with API key can check if the "image" field for movie specials is still null or not.

[antheaezzell]

A couple of things @fatSquirrel42 .

1. I'm not sure if Jellyfin is using the v4 API, so it's possible the name population issue is related to the legacy API which is unsupported.
2. I think this is the expected behavior. It's pulling the episode thumb and there is only to pull.

[fatSquirrel42]

1. You are absolutely correct. This is currently being worked on.
   Update for API v4 support jellyfin/jellyfin-plugin-tvdb#47
   Tvdb v4 migration jellyfin/jellyfin-plugin-tvdb#93

2. Do you mean it is expected, because the linked movie page https://thetvdb.com/series/violet-evergarden/episodes/9513840 has no thumbnail. And the standalone movie page only has a poster image? https://thetvdb.com/movies/violet-evergarden-the-movie
   Are you considering adding a thumbnail, to the linked movie page?

[sktaylortrash]

@fatSquirrel42

It's expected because the linked movie: https://thetvdb.com/series/violet-evergarden/episodes/9513840 doesn't have an episode image. Simply adding one there will correct the problem of no image being available.

https://imgur.com/a/t8fKsUy
There is no intent to add thumbnails directly to the movie pages themselves

[markus101]

Titles and isMovie: 1 are correctly set for these titles now, but we're seeing issues where titles don't match what is on the website. Looks like someone has already opened an issue for that and I'll provide more information there.

#322