Changing to use new JSON api

[ConorNevin]

Are you planning on changing to use the new JSON api given that they are deprecating the XML api per http://www.thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php/Programmers_API?

[lozbrown]

API deprecation date is looming "We are planning to discontinue the old API as of October 1st"

https://api.thetvdb.com/swagger

[jefflaing]

For the record, it looks like you are now official broken.

t = tvdb_api.Tvdb()
show = t['American Gods']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.10-intel/egg/tvdb_api.py", line 952, in getitem
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.10-intel/egg/tvdb_api.py", line 937, in _nameToSid
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.10-intel/egg/tvdb_api.py", line 884, in _getShowData
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.10-intel/egg/tvdb_api.py", line 650, in _getetsrc
tvdb_exceptions.tvdb_error: There was an error with the XML retrieved from thetvdb.com:
no element found: line 216, column 23
First try emptying the cache folder at..
/var/folders/yh/p0282tlx7wd_s5sbntc3667c0000gp/T/tvdb_api-u502
If this does not resolve the issue, please try again later. If the error persists, report a bug on
http://dbr.lighthouseapp.com/projects/13342-tvdb_api/overview

[thezoggy]

http://thetvdb.com/?string=american+gods&tab=listseries&function=Search
the entry with no title is prob the cause

[jefflaing]

Irrespective, they are serving bad XML for many series, not just that one, and that's the interface that they don't support, and no-one should expect they will fix it in a timely fashion.

[jankatins]

There is a partial fork: https://github.com/dpimenov/tvdb_api/tree/newapi Unfortuinately, not all functions are ported yet and it breaks all users because the API is not translated (episodenumber is now airedEpisodeNumber)...

[dbr]

tvdb_api==2.0 released which uses the new API thanks to everyone in #58 and #60