Sickchill: Suggestion: Add support for alternative TV API's

[XxUnkn0wnxX]

tvdb, has become somewhat unreliable its constantly down and is struggling to stay up these days, would it kill you guys to Add support for alternative API's rather then sourcing all your information from tvdb?

trakt.tv has a accurate database and the API is built well, and what about tvmaze.com?

this is starting to become a nuisance from shows not updating properly due to tvdb's downtime of late...

[OmgImAlexis]

trakt.tv is tvdb under the hood.

tvmaze and others could be added but we're all busy so maybe open a PR?

[overdox]

more indexers would be appreciated, tvdb is dogshite atm.

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[dirkronsmans]

@miigotu Since the tvdb seems to be lacking updates recently, any chance this can be revisited?

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[dirkronsmans]

@miigotu are there any plans to re-visit this?
You reopened this yourself.

Would love to know if this is on the roadmap

[miigotu]

It has been on the roadmap for like 4 years ;)

[stevegilbert23]

+1 for this.
The thetvdb.com is having issues today:

An unexpected error occurred.
SQLSTATE[08004] [1040] Too many connections

Is there a branch/fork/project where this work has started?
Seems daunting to start from scratch, if any of us out here wanted to contribute.

If thetvdb.com goes away, would sickchill be effectively dead?

[jaxjexjox]

Recent issues with TVDB means it might be nice to consider adding another source, if it's not a huge amount of work.

[Zw3rv3r]

Perhaps some inspiration can be found on https://github.com/---/tree/master/lib/pytvmaze if both Sickbeard forks aren't too far apart?