Newzbin searching and multiple missing shows

PiNPOiNT

13-04-2009 10:34:55

Thanks to a different post, here's a great way to create a search engine in TVrename to find missing shows in Newzbin. But i think it might be able to be improved even further...

To start...

http://www.newzbin.com/search/?q={ShowName}+{Season}x{Episode}&searchaction=Search&fpn=p&category=8&u_nfo_posts_only=0&u_url_posts_only=0&u_comment_posts_only=0&u_v3_retention=10368000&ps_rb_video_format=133137&ps_rb_language=4096&sort=date&order=desc&u_post_results_amt=1000

This looks for shows in the format that all TV shows are posted allowing for easy links to quickly grab missing shows.

A nice feature of TVrename is the ability to highlight multiple missing shows and then click the search engine, and it opens multiple browser tabs with each new search. The problem with using this method with Newzbin, is that after about 5 at once, you start getting HTTP errors about to many connections, and it probably ticks them off.

However, using the boolean search option "OR" (without the quotes) allows to you search for multiple different strings all within one search. Providing results all done in one query. I believe searching for missing episodes this way might make things easier on everyone.

The kicker is however, that the way TVrename works now with its tags, i don't believe this will work. If there was a new tag: EG: {ShowName#} which corresponded to each of the selected missing episodes in your list and a "OR" was added between each one, then newzbin would be performing a single search with only one query.

For Example:

(Missing show Page)
scrubs season 8 episode 1
american idol season 6 episode 5
lost season 3 episode 5

Highlight all 3 listings and press the newzbin search engine button

The new search string would be something like this (notice the bold changes)
http://www.newzbin.com/search/?q={ShowName#}+{Season#}x{Episode#} OR {ShowName#}+{Season#}x{Episode#} OR {ShowName#}+{Season#}x{Episode#}&searchaction=Search&fpn=p&category=8&u_nfo_posts_only=0&u_url_posts_only=0&u_comment_posts_only=0&u_v3_retention=10368000&ps_rb_video_format=133137&ps_rb_language=4096&sort=date&order=desc&u_post_results_amt=1000

The #sign in each tag would represent the Showname/season/episode of the 3 highlighted shows im searching for.

It would be the same way as if i typed into newzbin directly on their search page

http://www.newzbin.com/search/?fpn=p

american idol 6x05 OR lost 3x05 OR scrubs 8x01

See full length search here
http://www.newzbin.com/search/?q=americ ... ts_amt=200

Newzbin would then return ONLY those specific episodes, ALSO allowing you to press "ALL" to tag all newzbin articles, and then "Create NZB".
Ultimately this allows you to only press 3 buttons to get every missing episode from your missing episodes page.

Unfortunatly Newzbin limits the maximum text in their search field to 255 chars. :(

djphatic

19-04-2009 22:31:34

only just discovering this awesome and useful program. would love to see some way to be able to search for missing shows/episodes via newzbin/tvnzb as I dont use torrents so the torrent match function is pretty useless in my situation.

Flain

22-04-2009 14:34:40

Another vote for this one, what would be even cooler if multiple sources were searched and all the results were presented
on one view within tvrename :)

Some sites that could be used:
www.tznzb.com
www.binsearch.info
members.easynews.com/global4 (you need an easynews paid account)

I don't have a newzbin account though since you need to be invited and ive not been able to find anyone with invites

interfacelift

24-04-2009 04:58:27

I'm a newzbin user, and I also made a custom search for TVrename. I also found out about the too many requests issue if you highlight a bunch. It'd be nice if TVrename could combine all of these in to one search.

For now, I'm just searching by only Show Name and Season, so I can open the first episode I'm missing, then click each one to send them to my newsreader. It's not perfect, as I have to manually remember what episodes are needed, but I don't get any errors from Newzbin that way.

Here's my episode by episode search:
http://www.newzbin.com/search/query/?q=^{ShowName}+{Season}x{Episode2}&area=-1&fpn=p&searchaction=Go&areadone=-1

And my season search:
http://www.newzbin.com/search/query/?q=^{ShowName}+{Season}x&area=-1&fpn=p&searchaction=Go&areadone=-1

I made a binsearch.info one as well:
http://www.binsearch.info/?q={ShowName}+S{Season:2}E{Episode2}&max=250&adv_age=240&m=