When downloading folder.jpg for each season, should use the per-season image, not overall show poster

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http://tvrename.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=494&p=1751#p1751

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tvren...@tvrename.com on 10 Sep 2009 at 12:01

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Hey Guys,

This shouldn't be too dificult, from my nose through the code we are already 
obtaining the ZIP file from TVDB.com

To find the specific season artwork we need to:
 1. Download banners.xml for each series (it's in the same location as en.xml that has the series information in it)
    Call to GetPageZIP in TheTVDB.cs should do it (may be more efficient to download the zip files onceand use each file from it.)
 2. Parse the XML content
 3. Scan through each banner in the Banners Collection
 4. Search for the banner with the highest rating for 'BannerType'=season; 'BannerType2' = season; 'Language=en'; Season=SeasonId
 5. Record the BannerPath for that element
 6. save the image for that season for thetvdb.com/banners/<BannerPath>

I'm not a C coder, but do have a bit of background in hacking things together 
in Java. I have done my best below to produce an example of the code that would 
find the appropriate season banner. I hope it helps?

Thanks

Mark


in javay pseudocode:

string GetBannerURL(int SeriesId, int TVDBShowId) throws BannerNotFoundException
// seriesId is the number of the series; 1 for series 1 etc
// intSeriesId is the number of the show in TVDB - eg 76290 is for the series 
called '24'


boolean found = false;
number bestRating =0;
string bestBannerURL ='';

string lang = forceEnglish ? "en" : this.PreferredLanguage(code);
string url = BuildURL(false, episodesToo, code, lang);
text bannerXML = GetPageZIP(url, "banners.xml", true, forceReload)
XMLDocument bannerDocument = ParseXML(bannerXML);

for each (node banner) in bannerDocument
    if node.getElement('BannerType') = 'season'
       and node.getElement('BannerType2') = 'season'
       and node.getElement('Language') = lang
       and node.getElement('Season') = SeriesId
    then
        // we have a valid banner
        if found = false then
            //We don't have a valid banner so far, let use this one
            found = true;
            bestRating = node.getElement('Rating')
            bestBannerURL = 'http://thetvdb.com/banners/' & node.getElement('BannerPath')
        else if node.getElement('Rating') > bestRating 
            //We have a better quality banner than the current one, update it
            bestRating = node.getElement('Rating')
            bestBannerURL = 'http://thetvdb.com/banners/' & node.getElement('BannerPath')
        else
            //Do nothing, we already have a better banner
        end if
    else
        // do nothing, the file contains many other URLs for images
    end if
next

if found = false then throw BannerNotFoundException
else
return bestBannerURL


Image Example
http://www.thetvdb.com/banners/seasons/76290-1-6.jpg

XML Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Banners> 
    <Banner> 
        <id>149801</id>
        <BannerPath>seasons/76290-1-6.jpg</BannerPath> 
        <BannerType>season</BannerType> 
        <BannerType2>season</BannerType2> 
        <Language>en</Language> 
        <Rating>6.7778</Rating> 
        <RatingCount>9</RatingCount> 
        <Season>1</Season>

Original comment by mark.sum...@gmail.com on 23 May 2012 at 2:12

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Hey everyone,

I have started work on this and have an alpha release ready to go. At the same 
time I have been working on producing Frodo compliant series / season images 
from TV Rename. If you are able to help debug and/or suggest features then let 
me know and I can send you the source code.

If not then don't stress, we should be able to see something soon.

Thanks

Mark

Original comment by mark.sum...@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2013 at 8:12