Sickbeard Episode Cleaner

A post processing script for Sickbeard that allows you to set the number of episodes of a show that you would like to keep. Useful for shows that air daily.

The script sorts the episodes you have for a show by the season and episode number, and then deletes the oldest episodes past the threshold you set.

How to use

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/spoatacus/sickbeard-episode-cleaner.git
2. Change owner to your Sickbeard user chown -R sickbeard.sickbeard sickbeard-episode-cleaner
3. Make main.py executable by your Sickbeard user chmod ug+x sickbeard-episode-cleaner/main.py
4. Configure the script. See section below for details.
5. Configure Sickbeard to use the script
   • Stop Sickbeard
   • Edit Sickbeard's config.ini
   • Add the full path of sickbeard-episode-cleaner/main.py to the extra_scripts setting (under [General])
   • Start Sickbeard

Configuration

Configuration is pretty straight forward as this sample config file shows. The keys under shows are the tvdb id's for the shows you want to clean.

There is a sample config included. Just move it to config.json. mv sickbeard-episode-cleaner/config.json.sample sickbeard-episode-cleaner/config.json

{
    "server": {
    	"hostname": "",
		"port": 8081,
		"web_root": "",
		"api_key": ""
	},
	"shows": {
        // The Colbert Report
		"79274": {					// tvdb id
			"keep_episodes": 10		// number of episodes to keep
		},
        // The Daily Show
		"71256": {					// tvdb id
			"keep_episodes": 10		// number of episodes to keep
		},
        // Conan
		"194751": {					// tvdb id
			"keep_episodes": 10		// number of episodes to keep
		}
	}
}