gnarlytvdb (python)

This is yet another python interface to thetvdb.com programmer's api. Its aim is to be fast, simple to use and easy to understand.

Features

• String values from TVDB are (mostly) converted to the appropriate python datatypes
• In memory and on disk caching
• Look up a series by imdb id
• Supports aired and DVD ordering for seasons and episodes

Install from pypi

gnarlytvdb is on pypi and can be easily install using pip. If you don't have pip, see install instructions here or see if it is available through your distro's package management system (e.g. apt-get install python-pip). After you have installed pip you can go ahead and install gnarlytvdb with the following command:

pip install gnarlytvdb

(you may need to add sudo in front of that command)
That's it.

Install from source

If you prefer to get the latest changes from the source repo, here is how.

Start by cloning the repo.

cd /tmp
git clone git://github.com/steinitzu/gnarly-tvdb.git

cd to the projects root folder

cd gnarly-tvdb

now install (you may need to add sudo in front of the next command)

python setup.py install

That's it! Now lets move on and see how to use this thing.

Basic usage

The main component of gnarlytvdb is the TVDB class. Note if you don't already have a tvdb api key for your application, you can register for one here.

So lets start by opening a TVDB instance.

>> from gnarlytvdb import TVDB
>> tv = TVDB(api_key='my_api_key')

Other available arguments for TVDB are documented in the class' docstring.

Now we can get our selves some data from thetvdb.

>> series = tv['seinfeld']

or

>> series = tv.get_series('seinfeld')

Series becomes an object of the Series class. It is a dict based class and each instance of it will represent a XML element from thetvdb XML api for the requested series. Keys are converted to lower case however.

When you fetch a series using the above mentioned methods, all the child episode text data is fetched as well. So, say you want to see the name of episode 5x4

>> print series.season(5).episode(4)['episodename']
The sniffing Accountant

Or you want to see when Seinfeld first aired

>> print series['firstaired']
1990-05-31

It is also possible to get episodes in their DVD release order by setting the order argument to 'dvd'. Example:

>> print series.season(2).episode(12)['episodename']
The Busboy
>> print series.season(2, order='dvd').episode(12)['episodename']
The Revenge    

Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, bug reports, hatemail, loveletters, etc, either in the project's bugtracker https://github.com/steinitzu/gnarly-tvdb/issues or at steinitzu@gmail.com

• TODO: Implement actors and banners