Absolute Series Scanner (for anime mainly)

Can you post the link for 32 and 64 bits so i can update the readme please?

I’ve the same problem , the scanner seems to be ā€œcorruptedā€ very quickly, I have to replace the file with a ā€œnewā€ one. For instance the linked file doesn’t work anymore.

EDIT : seems I can’t join the file, so here it is : http://rootaxbox.no-ip.org/temp2/Absolute%20Series%20Scanner.py

But I’m pretty sure it’s plex screwing it up, as for a long time I had no problem. Some update along the way started this.

File looks good to me. I believe the pyc generated from the scanner py file is not generated anymore and replacing the file regenerates it…
I wish i could prevent that but the error seem plex related. I wonder if it’s linked to the dll error seen as well…

For the record, yeah I’ve no .pyc generated, even when I replace the ā€œcorruptedā€ scanner.

it’s me again :o

No problem since my last post, and before I had to replace the file multiple times in a week. I don’t know, maybe a windows update fixed a strange behavior… Keep fingers crossed.

I can’t seem to get the scanner to work on my unRAID installation. I copied all the files to the correct locations but I keep getting an ERROR - No module in Absolute Series Scanner
I attached that full scanner log below. Any help would be appreciated.

http://pastebin.com/mg0iu4Je

@schale01 said:
I can’t seem to get the scanner to work on my unRAID installation. I copied all the files to the correct locations but I keep getting an ERROR - No module in Absolute Series Scanner
I attached that full scanner log below. Any help would be appreciated.

plex scanner log - Pastebin.com

Nevermind. Seems I’m an idiot. Somehow I copied that Scanner file incorrectly. Not sure how that happened.

If you did have html/xml tags at the beginning you right clic on github and saved the page and not the file itself. Worry not scale01, you are not alone :smiley:

It seems that the scanner is not working anymore? It won’t update my library, even If I create a new one it won’t recognize any of my files. I tried with Plex Series Scanner and it works.

Also, I downloaded the last version of the scanner and still not working.

Why is nobody following the readme? i included install update and troubleshooting instructions…
1 - please read the thread, it has been discussed multiple times
2 - please read the scanner readme troubleshooting section (link in my signature)

@ZeroQI said:
Can you post the link for 32 and 64 bits so i can update the readme please?

Sure, Sorry for the late response, I haven’t been on the plex forums lately.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

Version 14.0.24212 for both X64 and x86 are the latest versions that were installed on 8/18/2016 for the x64 version and for the x86 version that was installed 8/31/2016.

I also seem to have a problem with the scanner I guess, I tried to use the [tvdb4] feature on some of my anime series but what comes up in plex is a giant season of the anime that I’ve attached the [tvdb4-xxxxxxxx] to. I’ve tried it with Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Super, One Piece, Naruto, and Naruto Shippuuden. All of which have one giant season 1 compiled of all episodes of their series.

Actually for Dragon Ball, I guess it worked but its broken up into different seasons per title in the page that houses all my anime on plex, So I have 3 different Dragon Ball’s all with different seasons. I believe I can just merge the 3 correct?

@TrixR4K1ds thanks for the link. I updated the readme. not sure if the run times are cumulative though…

tvdb3 use tvdb seasons but leaving the abs ep number
tvdb4 does make absolutely numbered episodes gather metadata in any season arrangement, including sagas as seasons.
If you leave all eps in a single folder without seasons, and the mapping isn’t in the XML file [rawgit.com/ZeroQI/Absolute-Series-Scanner/master/tvdb4.mapping.xm] then you get the exact ep and season numbering you have, which is all files in one default season 1

Scanner call - root: ā€˜H:\Anime’, path: ā€˜Dragon Ball’, dirs: ā€˜9’, files: ā€˜2’
Scanner call - root: ā€˜H:\Anime’, path: ā€˜Dragon Ball [tvdb4-76666]’, dirs: ā€˜0’, files: ā€˜155’
TVDB season mode (4) enabled, serie url: ā€˜http://rawgit.com/ZeroQI/Absolute-Series-Scanner/master/tvdb4.mapping.xml’

01|001|013|Emperor Pilaf Saga 02|014|028|Tournament Saga 03|029|045|Red Ribbon Army Saga 04|046|057|General Blue Saga 05|058|067|Commander Red Saga 06|068|083|Fortuneteller Baba Saga 07|084|101|Tien Shinhan Saga 08|102|122|King Piccolo Saga 09|123|153|Piccolo Jr. Saga

ā€œDragon Ball [tvdb4-76666]ā€ s0009e151 (Orig: s1e151) ā€œDragon Ball - 151 - Outrageous Octagon.mkvā€ ā€œOutrageous Octagonā€
ā€œDragon Ball [tvdb4-76666]ā€ s0009e152 (Orig: s1e152) ā€œDragon Ball - 152 - Mystery of the Dark World.mkvā€ ā€œMystery of the Dark Worldā€
ā€œDragon Ball [tvdb4-76666]ā€ s0009e153 (Orig: s1e153) ā€œDragon Ball - 153 - The End, The Beginning.mkvā€ ā€œThe End, The Beginningā€

Work as designed, scanner does put dragon ball eps in the right season.
You may have another dragon ball folder but it’s already with seasons

The following have all eps in one folder and 81472|79275|79824|81797|79824 aren’t in the xml file so leaving all in season 1 as designed

  • Dragon Ball Z [tvdb4-81472]
  • Dragon Ball GT [tvdb4-79275]
  • Naruto [tvdb4-79824]
  • One Piece [tvdb4-81797]
  • Naruto Shippuuden [tvdb4-79824]
  • …

If you give me the ep range and saga name per serie i will add back to the xml file or you can write your own local mapping file, but again, this mode is for seasons not matching anything to still work, and especially using sagas as seasons instead

@ZeroQI said:
@TrixR4K1ds thanks for the link. I updated the readme. not sure if the run times are cumulative though…

tvdb3 use tvdb seasons but leaving the abs ep number
tvdb4 does make absolutely numbered episodes gather metadata in any season arrangement, including sagas as seasons.
If you leave all eps in a single folder without seasons, and the mapping isn’t in the XML file [rawgit.com/ZeroQI/Absolute-Series-Scanner/master/tvdb4.mapping.xm] then you get the exact ep and season numbering you have, which is all files in one default season 1

Scanner call - root: ā€˜H:\Anime’, path: ā€˜Dragon Ball’, dirs: ā€˜9’, files: ā€˜2’
Scanner call - root: ā€˜H:\Anime’, path: ā€˜Dragon Ball [tvdb4-76666]’, dirs: ā€˜0’, files: ā€˜155’
TVDB season mode (4) enabled, serie url: ā€˜http://rawgit.com/ZeroQI/Absolute-Series-Scanner/master/tvdb4.mapping.xml’

01|001|013|Emperor Pilaf Saga 02|014|028|Tournament Saga 03|029|045|Red Ribbon Army Saga 04|046|057|General Blue Saga 05|058|067|Commander Red Saga 06|068|083|Fortuneteller Baba Saga 07|084|101|Tien Shinhan Saga 08|102|122|King Piccolo Saga 09|123|153|Piccolo Jr. Saga

ā€œDragon Ball [tvdb4-76666]ā€ s0009e151 (Orig: s1e151) ā€œDragon Ball - 151 - Outrageous Octagon.mkvā€ ā€œOutrageous Octagonā€
ā€œDragon Ball [tvdb4-76666]ā€ s0009e152 (Orig: s1e152) ā€œDragon Ball - 152 - Mystery of the Dark World.mkvā€ ā€œMystery of the Dark Worldā€
ā€œDragon Ball [tvdb4-76666]ā€ s0009e153 (Orig: s1e153) ā€œDragon Ball - 153 - The End, The Beginning.mkvā€ ā€œThe End, The Beginningā€

Work as designed, scanner does put dragon ball eps in the right season.
You may have another dragon ball folder but it’s already with seasons

The following have all eps in one folder and 81472|79275|79824|81797|79824 aren’t in the xml file so leaving all in season 1 as designed

  • Dragon Ball Z [tvdb4-81472]
  • Dragon Ball GT [tvdb4-79275]
  • Naruto [tvdb4-78857]
  • One Piece [tvdb4-81797]
  • Naruto Shippuuden [tvdb4-79824]
  • …

If you give me the ep range and saga name per serie i will add back to the xml file or you can write your own local mapping file, but again, this mode is for seasons not matching anything to still work, and especially using sagas as seasons instead

No problem on the link, Glad to help.

As for the link for the tvdb4.mapping.XML that returns a 404 error.

Here is the series info for the anime, One Piece however has a lot of arcs so I wasn’t sure how to do that so I left that out and only did season names.

Dragon Ball Z [tvdb4-81472]
Season 1 - Saiyan Saga - 1-39
Season 2 - Namek And Captian Ginyu Sagas - 40-74
Season 3 - Frieza Saga - 75-107
Season 4 - Garlic Jr., Trunks and Androids Sagas - 108-139
Season 5 - Imperfect Cell and Perfect Cell Sagas - 140-165
Season 6 - Cell Games Saga - 166-194
Season 7 - Great Saiyaman and World Tournament Sagas - 195-219
Season 8 - Babidi and Majin Buu Sagas - 220-253
Season 9 - Fusion and Kid Buu Sagas - 254-291
**
Dragon Ball GT [tvdb4-79275]**
Season 1 - Black Star Dragon Ball Saga - 1-15
Season 2 - Baby Saga - 16-40
Season 3 - Super Android 17 Saga - 41-47
Season 4 - Shadow Dragon Saga - 48-64

Naruto [tvdb4-78857]
Season 1 - 1-35
Season 2 2nd Stage - 36-83
Season 3 3rd Stage - 84-131
Season 4 4th Stage - 132-185
Season 5 5th Stage -
Funeral Proxy Mission arc Episode 186
Peddlers Escort Mission arc - 187-191
Matchmaking Proxy Mission arc Episode 192
The Dōjō Saga arc Episode 193
Lady Daimyō Search Mission arc Episode 194
The Third Great Beast arc Episodes - 195-196
Konoha Plans Recapture Mission arc Episodes - 197-201
The Top 5 Ninja Battles arc Episode 202
Yakumo Kurama Rescue Mission arc Episodes - 203-207
The Prized Artefact Escort Mission arc Episode 208
Gantetsu Escort Mission arc Episodes - 209-212
Menma Memory Search Mission arc Episodes - 213-215
Sunagakure Support Mission arc Episodes - 216-220

One Piece [tvdb4-81797]
Season 1 East Blue - 1-61
Season 2 Entering into the Grand Line - 62-77 (Episode Name Escape From Misty Peak Combines parts of the original episodesn 67 and 77 I’m not sure what episode # this is)
Season 3 Introducing Chopper at the Winter Island - 78-92
Season 4 - 93-130
Part 1 Arrival at Alabasta - 93-110
Part 2 Fierce Fighting in Alabasta - 111-130
Season 5 TV Original - 131-143
Season 6 - 144-195
Part 1 Sky Island - Skypiea - 144-173
Part 2 Sky Island - Golden Bell - 174-195
Season 7 - Escape! The Naval Fortress & The Foxy Pirate Crew - 196-228
Season 8 Water Seven - 229-263
Season 9 Enies Lobby - 264-335
Season 10 Thriller Bark - 337-381
Season 11 Sabaody Archipelago - 382-405
Season 12 Island of Women - 408-421
Season 13 Impel Down- 422-458
Season 14 Marineford - 459-516
Season 15 Fishman Island - 517-573
Season 16 Punk Hazard - 574-628
Season 17 Dressrosa - 629-746
Season 18 -
Silver Mine Arc - 747-750
Zou Arc - 751-755 (Currently Airing)

Naruto Shippuuden [tvdb4-79824]
Season 1 Kazekage Rescue - 1-32
Season 2 Long-Awaited Reunion - 32-53
Season 3 Twelve Guardian Ninja - 54-71
Season 4 Immortal Devastators — Hidan and Kakuzu- 72-88
Season 5 The Three-Tailed Demon Turtle - 89-112
Season 6 Master’s Prophecy and Vengeance - 113-143
Season 7 The Six-Tailed Demon Slug - 144-151
Season 8 Two Saviors - 152-175
Season 9 Past Arc: The Locus of Konoha - 176-196
Season 10 The Gathering of the Five Kage - 197-221
Season 11 Paradise on the Ship - 222-242
Season 12 Nine-tailed Fox Taming and Karmic Encounters - 243-275
Season 13 The Seven Shinobi Swordsmen - 276-295
Season 14 The Fourth Great Ninja War - Assailants From Afar - 296-320
Season 15 The Fourth Great Ninja War - Sasuke and Itachi - 321-348
Season 16 Kakashi: Shadow of the ANBU Black Op - 349-361
Season 17 The Fourth Great Ninja War - The Return of Squad Seven - 362-372
Season 18 The Fourth Great Ninja War - Obito Uchiha - 373-393
Season 19 Naruto’s Back ~The Tracks of His Friends - 394-413
Season 20 Infinite Tsukuyomi: The Invocation - 414-475 (ongoing currently)

Dragon Ball Super [tvdb4-295068]
Season 1 Battle of Gods Arc - 1-14
Season 2 Resurrection ā€˜F’ Arc - 15-27
Season 3 Universe 6 Arc - 28-41
Season 4 Potaufeu Arc - 42-46
Season 5 Future Trunks Arc - 47+ (Still airing)

EDIT I changed the ā€œNaurtoā€ ID number to its correct one

Not the best season choices for the batch of small seasons…
I updated https://github.com/ZeroQI/Absolute-Series-Scanner/blob/master/tvdb4.mapping.xml BUT you could have build your own local file ā€œtvdb.mappingā€ inside serie folder and attached them here,i would have included them in the xml but saved me time… loads… Infos are in the readme for format.

Please try now, it should move eps to proper seasons representing the sagas and reply with the result …

My .plexignore files don’t work. Will this be fixed soon, because my library is being filled up with extras like picture dramas and OPs/EDs.

AniDB naming is supported for OP/EDs are supported and they are mapped as season 0 normally.
If you move your extras to a subfolder named ā€œExtrasā€ they will be skipped
the old alpha version of my scanner did support .plexignore, not the new one.
Plex scanner supports .plexignore files too…
I have no plan to add the support, the function is marginal in its use, and i support most extras files and users can move them to ā€œExtrasā€ folder to skip them…

@ZeroQI said:
Not the best season choices for the batch of small seasons…
I updated Absolute-Series-Scanner/tvdb4.mapping.xml at master Ā· ZeroQI/Absolute-Series-Scanner Ā· GitHub BUT you could have build your own local file ā€œtvdb.mappingā€ inside serie folder and attached them here,i would have included them in the xml but saved me time… loads… Infos are in the readme for format.

Please try now, it should move eps to proper seasons representing the sagas and reply with the result …

Thank you for your help.

Just so I can make sure, I don’t need to put that file in my Plex server folder on my computer right? It will get it from the online database from that link XML you made? Or do I misunderstand something, I just recently found out about this feature of sorting anime this way, So I don’t know.

@TrixR4K1ds read the readme, really. In short it will take it locally first but you didn’t create a local file, then from github so just rescan and that’s it. It should move the files as by magic into the seasons you gave me and that i added to the online file… Just rescan and confirm the magic works as expected for every serie, as it should.