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reneg · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 41

If you cannot find a series ID in the metagenerator program, this would be a good next place to look.

I am posting a link (below) to all the Series IDs that I have identified that the Tivo uses. This post is a continuation of the thread on the Tivo Community Forum regarding listing series IDs. An earlier version of these series IDs was used in the large DB in MasterCephus's metagenerator program.

Release 3 of the Series IDs contains 12,656 rows of data, and there were 1587 changes since the last release in December. I have corrected world accent markings. The file itself is a comma separated text file containing the Series ID and Series Name.

Tivo Series IDs Release 3
Changes from release 2 to releas 3

MasterCephus · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 173 Location: Hueytown, AL

I'll consume this into the newest version of the MetaGenerator

reneg · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 41

No sooner did I post this than I noticed an omission when searching for a brand new series. It looks like the Series ID's have exceeded 999,999, such that SH123456 can now be SH1234567. Since Tivo zero padded series IDs less than 100,000, I'm going to assume that Tivo will handle series IDs greater than 999,999 exactly like it handles tivocast IDs which are seven digits.

reneg · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 41

Release 3.1 - Updated with Series IDs > 1,000,000 - 13357 rows, 701 additions

Tivo Series IDs Release 3.1

MasterCephus · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 173 Location: Hueytown, AL

here is an update that I excited about.

I am working with the guys at thetvdb.com to incorporate the series ids on their online DBs which will mean that when it's complete you won't need the db that comes with the metagenerator!

PaulS · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 148

Sweet! Can't wait!

reneg · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 41

I expect this to be the final release, theTVDB.com is now incorporating series IDs into their DB and I'm sure MasterCephus will take advantage of that real soon.

Linky: Tivo Series IDs Release 4

PaulS · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 148

The question is how exactly the thetvdb.com guys are acquiring the seriesId data. If they're pulling it directly from zap2it.com and such, you're probably right. However, I have a suspicion that they're actually using the data that you provide here.

MasterCephus ? Any insight ?

MasterCephus · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 173 Location: Hueytown, AL

Thank Reneg for the legwork...they are using the data which he required.

reneg · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 41

It looks like they might have seeded their database with the data I acquired. I posted an updated link to the zip file on their tvdb forums today. I'm going to try and help keep the tvdb series IDs up to date. There are a couple hundred ID discrepancies but I think the majority of popular series IDs are covered.

The tvdb guys are acquiring IMDB and TV.com IDs too. I have no idea where those are coming from.

goldfndr · Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

Just as a fun exercise, I wrote a javascript scriptlet/bookmarklet to transform a Zap2it web page into a list of series numbers and titles. It might break the next time Zap2it changes their site. It doesn't sort or uniq (I wasn't able to get it into an array, but this is my first javascript code... based on the Free Tables scriptlet).

Paste the following into the URL for a bookmark/favorite, all on one line:

javascript:(function (){t=document.getElementsByTagName(%22a%22); s=%22%22; for(x=0;t[x];x++) { pgm=t[x].href.indexOf(%22pgmId=%22); if(pgm!=-1) s=s+ t[x].href.substr(pgm+6,10)+ %22,%22+t[x].text+ %22%3cbr%3e%22; } document.write(s); document.close();})();

Works for Firefox 2.0.0.12 in Linux (Kubuntu 7.10). If it doesn't seem to work in MSIE or other browsers, try changing the "t[x].text" to "t[x].innerhtml" (Firefox doesn't seem to like innerhtml for anchors).

For the curious: %22=", %3cbr%3e=<br>

ebf · Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 60

The giant list of seriesIDs, is that known by all TiVo's, or does my TiVo only know the ones for shows it has seen in the guide at sometime in the past? I ask because I transfered two episodes of a show with ids found with MetaGenerator, but they did not go into a folder together.

krkeegan · Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject:

Only if they have appeared on your TiVo at some point. I think just in your Guide.

ebf · Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 60

I checked the BBC America website and they have no entry for "Hustle," so you are probably right and my TiVo has never heard of this drama!

You know, the new TiVo Desktop will folder random videos into custom folders (when auto-transfered). I wonder if we will ever be able to create our own folder names and seriesIDs. Unfortunately, I guess you can't find the custom seriesID of a transfered video as they cannot be transfered back off of the TiVo box. (I assume that's how you find the ID of a new show?!?)

krkeegan · Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject:

Umm yes, if you find the discussion on this site about Desktop 2.6(which was just released) you will see that we are working on deconstructing this. I do think there is a good chance that we can create custom IDs. I suspect, but this could be totally wrong, that creating a LOT of custom IDs may be a lot of work. This is just based on how the current autotransfer system works.