Seperate Names

[The_Silencer]

I am scrapping a site and the title has title="watch 1000 Ways to Die (2008) online">

Currently I am using title="watch (.+?) online"> in the add on gives me the name '1000 Ways to Die (2008)'

I would like to separate the 1000 Ways to die and the Year? I think that is whats giving me issues with using metahandler for Tv shows. So I would still define 'name' and also add 'year'


Any suggestions?

 

[jas0npc]

I wouldn't mind seeing how this gets done properly

 

[Bstrdsmkr]

tl;dr

title="watch (.+?)\s\(([\d]{4})\) online">

Starting with what you had:

title="watch (.+?) online">

We just need to indicate where the title stops and where the year starts. We know that the year is surrounded by parentheses and a space (\s) on each side. We also need to escape the parens so it knows they aren't part of an operation, but we're talking about actual parens:

title="watch (.+?)\s\(2008\) online">

Next, we generalize the year. The year is a set of digits only ([\d]) that always repeats exactly 4 times ({4}):

title="watch (.+?)\s\([\d]{4}\) online">

Finally, we surround the interesting part of the year with (not-escaped) parentheses to indicate that we want to return it too:

title="watch (.+?)\s\(([\d]{4})\) online">

 

[jas0npc]

That near enough what i have apart from for 4 digits i had [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] So im off to alter all them to this

 

[Bstrdsmkr]

FYI, you can also do ranges like [\d]{5-10} which would fit any series of numbers only, at least 5, but not more than 10 characters long

 

[The_Silencer]

Thank you very much, and for the great explanation. I am going to update my add on and I bet that will fix my metahandler issue for TV shows.

 

[The_Silencer]

Bstrdsmkr I could kiss you right now.... thank you .... metadata is working great now.