#!/usr/bin/env python2 #encoding:utf-8 #author:dbr/Ben #project:tvdb_api #repository:http://github.com/dbr/tvdb_api #license:unlicense (http://unlicense.org/) """Simple-to-use Python interface to The TVDB's API (thetvdb.com) Example usage: >>> from tvdb_api import Tvdb >>> t = Tvdb() >>> t['Lost'][4][11]['episodename'] u'Cabin Fever' """ __author__ = "dbr/Ben" __version__ = "1.9" import os import time import getpass import StringIO import tempfile import warnings import logging import zipfile try: import xml.etree.cElementTree as ElementTree except ImportError: import xml.etree.ElementTree as ElementTree try: import gzip except ImportError: gzip = None from lib import requests from lib.requests import exceptions from lib import cachecontrol from lib.cachecontrol import caches from tvdb_ui import BaseUI, ConsoleUI from tvdb_exceptions import (tvdb_error, tvdb_userabort, tvdb_shownotfound, tvdb_seasonnotfound, tvdb_episodenotfound, tvdb_attributenotfound) def log(): return logging.getLogger("tvdb_api") class ShowContainer(dict): """Simple dict that holds a series of Show instances """ def __init__(self): self._stack = [] self._lastgc = time.time() def __setitem__(self, key, value): self._stack.append(key) #keep only the 100th latest results if time.time() - self._lastgc > 20: tbd = self._stack[:-100] i = 0 for o in tbd: del self[o] del self._stack[i] i += 1 _lastgc = time.time() del tbd super(ShowContainer, self).__setitem__(key, value) class Show(dict): """Holds a dict of seasons, and show data. """ def __init__(self): dict.__init__(self) self.data = {} def __repr__(self): return "" % ( self.data.get(u'seriesname', 'instance'), len(self) ) def __getattr__(self, key): if key in self: # Key is an episode, return it return self[key] if key in self.data: # Non-numeric request is for show-data return self.data[key] raise AttributeError def __getitem__(self, key): if key in self: # Key is an episode, return it return dict.__getitem__(self, key) if key in self.data: # Non-numeric request is for show-data return dict.__getitem__(self.data, key) # Data wasn't found, raise appropriate error if isinstance(key, int) or key.isdigit(): # Episode number x was not found raise tvdb_seasonnotfound("Could not find season %s" % (repr(key))) else: # If it's not numeric, it must be an attribute name, which # doesn't exist, so attribute error. raise tvdb_attributenotfound("Cannot find attribute %s" % (repr(key))) def airedOn(self, date): ret = self.search(str(date), 'firstaired') if len(ret) == 0: raise tvdb_episodenotfound("Could not find any episodes that aired on %s" % date) return ret def search(self, term=None, key=None): """ Search all episodes in show. Can search all data, or a specific key (for example, episodename) Always returns an array (can be empty). First index contains the first match, and so on. Each array index is an Episode() instance, so doing search_results[0]['episodename'] will retrieve the episode name of the first match. Search terms are converted to lower case (unicode) strings. # Examples These examples assume t is an instance of Tvdb(): >>> t = Tvdb() >>> To search for all episodes of Scrubs with a bit of data containing "my first day": >>> t['Scrubs'].search("my first day") [] >>> Search for "My Name Is Earl" episode named "Faked His Own Death": >>> t['My Name Is Earl'].search('Faked His Own Death', key = 'episodename') [] >>> To search Scrubs for all episodes with "mentor" in the episode name: >>> t['scrubs'].search('mentor', key = 'episodename') [, ] >>> # Using search results >>> results = t['Scrubs'].search("my first") >>> print results[0]['episodename'] My First Day >>> for x in results: print x['episodename'] My First Day My First Step My First Kill >>> """ results = [] for cur_season in self.values(): searchresult = cur_season.search(term=term, key=key) if len(searchresult) != 0: results.extend(searchresult) return results class Season(dict): def __init__(self, show=None): """The show attribute points to the parent show """ self.show = show def __repr__(self): return "" % ( len(self.keys()) ) def __getattr__(self, episode_number): if episode_number in self: return self[episode_number] raise AttributeError def __getitem__(self, episode_number): if episode_number not in self: raise tvdb_episodenotfound("Could not find episode %s" % (repr(episode_number))) else: return dict.__getitem__(self, episode_number) def search(self, term=None, key=None): """Search all episodes in season, returns a list of matching Episode instances. >>> t = Tvdb() >>> t['scrubs'][1].search('first day') [] >>> See Show.search documentation for further information on search """ results = [] for ep in self.values(): searchresult = ep.search(term=term, key=key) if searchresult is not None: results.append( searchresult ) return results class Episode(dict): def __init__(self, season=None): """The season attribute points to the parent season """ self.season = season def __repr__(self): seasno = int(self.get(u'seasonnumber', 0)) epno = int(self.get(u'episodenumber', 0)) epname = self.get(u'episodename') if epname is not None: return "" % (seasno, epno, epname) else: return "" % (seasno, epno) def __getattr__(self, key): if key in self: return self[key] raise AttributeError def __getitem__(self, key): try: return dict.__getitem__(self, key) except KeyError: raise tvdb_attributenotfound("Cannot find attribute %s" % (repr(key))) def search(self, term=None, key=None): """Search episode data for term, if it matches, return the Episode (self). The key parameter can be used to limit the search to a specific element, for example, episodename. This primarily for use use by Show.search and Season.search. See Show.search for further information on search Simple example: >>> e = Episode() >>> e['episodename'] = "An Example" >>> e.search("examp") >>> Limiting by key: >>> e.search("examp", key = "episodename") >>> """ if term == None: raise TypeError("must supply string to search for (contents)") term = unicode(term).lower() for cur_key, cur_value in self.items(): cur_key, cur_value = unicode(cur_key).lower(), unicode(cur_value).lower() if key is not None and cur_key != key: # Do not search this key continue if cur_value.find(unicode(term).lower()) > -1: return self class Actors(list): """Holds all Actor instances for a show """ pass class Actor(dict): """Represents a single actor. Should contain.. id, image, name, role, sortorder """ def __repr__(self): return "" % (self.get("name")) class Tvdb: """Create easy-to-use interface to name of season/episode name >>> t = Tvdb() >>> t['Scrubs'][1][24]['episodename'] u'My Last Day' """ def __init__(self, interactive=False, select_first=False, debug=False, cache=True, banners=False, actors=False, custom_ui=None, language=None, search_all_languages=False, apikey=None, forceConnect=False, useZip=False, dvdorder=False): """interactive (True/False): When True, uses built-in console UI is used to select the correct show. When False, the first search result is used. select_first (True/False): Automatically selects the first series search result (rather than showing the user a list of more than one series). Is overridden by interactive = False, or specifying a custom_ui debug (True/False) DEPRECATED: Replaced with proper use of logging module. To show debug messages: >>> import logging >>> logging.basicConfig(level = logging.DEBUG) cache (True/False/str/unicode/urllib2 opener): Retrieved XML are persisted to to disc. If true, stores in tvdb_api folder under your systems TEMP_DIR, if set to str/unicode instance it will use this as the cache location. If False, disables caching. Can also be passed an arbitrary Python object, which is used as a urllib2 opener, which should be created by urllib2.build_opener banners (True/False): Retrieves the banners for a show. These are accessed via the _banners key of a Show(), for example: >>> Tvdb(banners=True)['scrubs']['_banners'].keys() ['fanart', 'poster', 'series', 'season'] actors (True/False): Retrieves a list of the actors for a show. These are accessed via the _actors key of a Show(), for example: >>> t = Tvdb(actors=True) >>> t['scrubs']['_actors'][0]['name'] u'Zach Braff' custom_ui (tvdb_ui.BaseUI subclass): A callable subclass of tvdb_ui.BaseUI (overrides interactive option) language (2 character language abbreviation): The language of the returned data. Is also the language search uses. Default is "en" (English). For full list, run.. >>> Tvdb().config['valid_languages'] #doctest: +ELLIPSIS ['da', 'fi', 'nl', ...] search_all_languages (True/False): By default, Tvdb will only search in the language specified using the language option. When this is True, it will search for the show in and language apikey (str/unicode): Override the default thetvdb.com API key. By default it will use tvdb_api's own key (fine for small scripts), but you can use your own key if desired - this is recommended if you are embedding tvdb_api in a larger application) See http://thetvdb.com/?tab=apiregister to get your own key forceConnect (bool): If true it will always try to connect to theTVDB.com even if we recently timed out. By default it will wait one minute before trying again, and any requests within that one minute window will return an exception immediately. useZip (bool): Download the zip archive where possibale, instead of the xml. This is only used when all episodes are pulled. And only the main language xml is used, the actor and banner xml are lost. """ self.shows = ShowContainer() # Holds all Show classes self.corrections = {} # Holds show-name to show_id mapping self.config = {} if apikey is not None: self.config['apikey'] = apikey else: self.config['apikey'] = "0629B785CE550C8D" # tvdb_api's API key self.config['debug_enabled'] = debug # show debugging messages self.config['custom_ui'] = custom_ui self.config['interactive'] = interactive # prompt for correct series? self.config['select_first'] = select_first self.config['search_all_languages'] = search_all_languages self.config['useZip'] = useZip self.config['dvdorder'] = dvdorder if cache is True: self.config['cache_enabled'] = True self.sess = cachecontrol.CacheControl(cache=caches.FileCache(self._getTempDir())) elif cache is False: self.config['cache_enabled'] = False elif isinstance(cache, basestring): self.config['cache_enabled'] = True self.sess = cachecontrol.CacheControl(cache=caches.FileCache(cache)) else: raise ValueError("Invalid value for Cache %r (type was %s)" % (cache, type(cache))) self.config['banners_enabled'] = banners self.config['actors_enabled'] = actors if self.config['debug_enabled']: warnings.warn("The debug argument to tvdb_api.__init__ will be removed in the next version. " "To enable debug messages, use the following code before importing: " "import logging; logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)") logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG) # List of language from http://thetvdb.com/api/0629B785CE550C8D/languages.xml # Hard-coded here as it is realtively static, and saves another HTTP request, as # recommended on http://thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php/API:languages.xml self.config['valid_languages'] = [ "da", "fi", "nl", "de", "it", "es", "fr", "pl", "hu", "el", "tr", "ru", "he", "ja", "pt", "zh", "cs", "sl", "hr", "ko", "en", "sv", "no" ] # thetvdb.com should be based around numeric language codes, # but to link to a series like http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=79349&lid=16 # requires the language ID, thus this mapping is required (mainly # for usage in tvdb_ui - internally tvdb_api will use the language abbreviations) self.config['langabbv_to_id'] = {'el': 20, 'en': 7, 'zh': 27, 'it': 15, 'cs': 28, 'es': 16, 'ru': 22, 'nl': 13, 'pt': 26, 'no': 9, 'tr': 21, 'pl': 18, 'fr': 17, 'hr': 31, 'de': 14, 'da': 10, 'fi': 11, 'hu': 19, 'ja': 25, 'he': 24, 'ko': 32, 'sv': 8, 'sl': 30} if language is None: self.config['language'] = 'en' else: if language not in self.config['valid_languages']: raise ValueError("Invalid language %s, options are: %s" % ( language, self.config['valid_languages'] )) else: self.config['language'] = language # The following url_ configs are based of the # http://thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php/Programmers_API self.config['base_url'] = "http://thetvdb.com" if self.config['search_all_languages']: self.config['url_getSeries'] = u"%(base_url)s/api/GetSeries.php" % self.config self.config['params_getSeries'] = {"seriesname": "", "language": "all"} else: self.config['url_getSeries'] = u"%(base_url)s/api/GetSeries.php" % self.config self.config['params_getSeries'] = {"seriesname": "", "language": self.config['language']} self.config['url_epInfo'] = u"%(base_url)s/api/%(apikey)s/series/%%s/all/%%s.xml" % self.config self.config['url_epInfo_zip'] = u"%(base_url)s/api/%(apikey)s/series/%%s/all/%%s.zip" % self.config self.config['url_seriesInfo'] = u"%(base_url)s/api/%(apikey)s/series/%%s/%%s.xml" % self.config self.config['url_actorsInfo'] = u"%(base_url)s/api/%(apikey)s/series/%%s/actors.xml" % self.config self.config['url_seriesBanner'] = u"%(base_url)s/api/%(apikey)s/series/%%s/banners.xml" % self.config self.config['url_artworkPrefix'] = u"%(base_url)s/banners/%%s" % self.config def _getTempDir(self): """Returns the [system temp dir]/tvdb_api-u501 (or tvdb_api-myuser) """ if hasattr(os, 'getuid'): uid = "u%d" % (os.getuid()) else: # For Windows try: uid = getpass.getuser() except ImportError: return os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "tvdb_api") return os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "tvdb_api-%s" % (uid)) def retry(ExceptionToCheck, tries=4, delay=3, backoff=2): def deco_retry(f): def f_retry(*args, **kwargs): mtries, mdelay = tries, delay while mtries > 0: try: return f(*args, **kwargs) except ExceptionToCheck, e: print "%s, Retrying in %d seconds..." % (str(e), mdelay) time.sleep(mdelay) mtries -= 1 mdelay *= backoff lastException = e raise lastException return f_retry # true decorator return deco_retry @retry(tvdb_error, tries=4) def _loadUrl(self, url, params=None, language=None): try: log().debug("Retrieving URL %s" % url) # get response from TVDB if self.config['cache_enabled']: resp = self.sess.get(url, cache_auto=True, params=params) else: resp = requests.get(url, params=params) except requests.HTTPError, e: raise tvdb_error("HTTP error " + str(e.errno) + " while loading URL " + str(url)) except requests.ConnectionError, e: raise tvdb_error("Connection error " + str(e.message) + " while loading URL " + str(url)) except requests.Timeout, e: raise tvdb_error("Connection timed out " + str(e.message) + " while loading URL " + str(url)) except Exception, e: raise tvdb_error("Unknown exception occured: " + str(e.message) + " while loading URL " + str(url)) if 'application/zip' in resp.headers.get("Content-Type", '') and resp.ok: try: # TODO: The zip contains actors.xml and banners.xml, which are currently ignored [GH-20] log().debug("We recived a zip file unpacking now ...") zipdata = StringIO.StringIO() zipdata.write(resp.content) myzipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(zipdata) return myzipfile.read('%s.xml' % language) except zipfile.BadZipfile: raise tvdb_error("Bad zip file received from thetvdb.com, could not read it") return resp.content if resp.ok else None def _getetsrc(self, url, params=None, language=None): """Loads a URL using caching, returns an ElementTree of the source """ src = self._loadUrl(url, params=params, language=language) try: # TVDB doesn't sanitize \r (CR) from user input in some fields, # remove it to avoid errors. Change from SickBeard, from will14m return ElementTree.fromstring(src.rstrip("\r")) if src else None except SyntaxError: src = self._loadUrl(url, params=params, language=language) try: return ElementTree.fromstring(src.rstrip("\r")) if src else None except SyntaxError, exceptionmsg: errormsg = "There was an error with the XML retrieved from thetvdb.com:\n%s" % ( exceptionmsg ) if self.config['cache_enabled']: errormsg += "\nFirst try emptying the cache folder at..\n%s" % ( self.config['cache_location'] ) errormsg += "\nIf this does not resolve the issue, please try again later. If the error persists, report a bug on" errormsg += "\nhttp://dbr.lighthouseapp.com/projects/13342-tvdb_api/overview\n" raise tvdb_error(errormsg) def _setItem(self, sid, seas, ep, attrib, value): """Creates a new episode, creating Show(), Season() and Episode()s as required. Called by _getShowData to populate show Since the nice-to-use tvdb[1][24]['name] interface makes it impossible to do tvdb[1][24]['name] = "name" and still be capable of checking if an episode exists so we can raise tvdb_shownotfound, we have a slightly less pretty method of setting items.. but since the API is supposed to be read-only, this is the best way to do it! The problem is that calling tvdb[1][24]['episodename'] = "name" calls __getitem__ on tvdb[1], there is no way to check if tvdb.__dict__ should have a key "1" before we auto-create it """ if sid not in self.shows: self.shows[sid] = Show() if seas not in self.shows[sid]: self.shows[sid][seas] = Season(show=self.shows[sid]) if ep not in self.shows[sid][seas]: self.shows[sid][seas][ep] = Episode(season=self.shows[sid][seas]) self.shows[sid][seas][ep][attrib] = value def _setShowData(self, sid, key, value): """Sets self.shows[sid] to a new Show instance, or sets the data """ if sid not in self.shows: self.shows[sid] = Show() self.shows[sid].data[key] = value def _cleanData(self, data): """Cleans up strings returned by TheTVDB.com Issues corrected: - Replaces & with & - Trailing whitespace """ if isinstance(data, str): data = data.replace(u"&", u"&") data = data.strip() return data def search(self, series): """This searches TheTVDB.com for the series name and returns the result list """ series = series.encode("utf-8") log().debug("Searching for show %s" % series) self.config['params_getSeries']['seriesname'] = series seriesEt = self._getetsrc(self.config['url_getSeries'], self.config['params_getSeries']) allSeries = list(dict((s.tag.lower(), s.text) for s in x.getchildren()) for x in seriesEt) return allSeries def _getSeries(self, series): """This searches TheTVDB.com for the series name, If a custom_ui UI is configured, it uses this to select the correct series. If not, and interactive == True, ConsoleUI is used, if not BaseUI is used to select the first result. """ allSeries = self.search(series) if len(allSeries) == 0: log().debug('Series result returned zero') raise tvdb_shownotfound("Show-name search returned zero results (cannot find show on TVDB)") if self.config['custom_ui'] is not None: log().debug("Using custom UI %s" % (repr(self.config['custom_ui']))) ui = self.config['custom_ui'](config=self.config) else: if not self.config['interactive']: log().debug('Auto-selecting first search result using BaseUI') ui = BaseUI(config=self.config) else: log().debug('Interactively selecting show using ConsoleUI') ui = ConsoleUI(config=self.config) return ui.selectSeries(allSeries) def _parseBanners(self, sid): """Parses banners XML, from http://thetvdb.com/api/[APIKEY]/series/[SERIES ID]/banners.xml Banners are retrieved using t['show name]['_banners'], for example: >>> t = Tvdb(banners = True) >>> t['scrubs']['_banners'].keys() ['fanart', 'poster', 'series', 'season'] >>> t['scrubs']['_banners']['poster']['680x1000']['35308']['_bannerpath'] u'http://thetvdb.com/banners/posters/76156-2.jpg' >>> Any key starting with an underscore has been processed (not the raw data from the XML) This interface will be improved in future versions. """ log().debug('Getting season banners for %s' % (sid)) bannersEt = self._getetsrc(self.config['url_seriesBanner'] % (sid)) banners = {} for cur_banner in bannersEt.findall('Banner'): bid = cur_banner.find('id').text btype = cur_banner.find('BannerType') btype2 = cur_banner.find('BannerType2') if btype is None or btype2 is None: continue btype, btype2 = btype.text, btype2.text if not btype in banners: banners[btype] = {} if not btype2 in banners[btype]: banners[btype][btype2] = {} if not bid in banners[btype][btype2]: banners[btype][btype2][bid] = {} for cur_element in cur_banner.getchildren(): tag = cur_element.tag.lower() value = cur_element.text if tag is None or value is None: continue tag, value = tag.lower(), value.lower() banners[btype][btype2][bid][tag] = value for k, v in banners[btype][btype2][bid].items(): if k.endswith("path"): new_key = "_%s" % (k) log().debug("Transforming %s to %s" % (k, new_key)) new_url = self.config['url_artworkPrefix'] % (v) banners[btype][btype2][bid][new_key] = new_url self._setShowData(sid, "_banners", banners) def _parseActors(self, sid): """Parsers actors XML, from http://thetvdb.com/api/[APIKEY]/series/[SERIES ID]/actors.xml Actors are retrieved using t['show name]['_actors'], for example: >>> t = Tvdb(actors = True) >>> actors = t['scrubs']['_actors'] >>> type(actors) >>> type(actors[0]) >>> actors[0] >>> sorted(actors[0].keys()) ['id', 'image', 'name', 'role', 'sortorder'] >>> actors[0]['name'] u'Zach Braff' >>> actors[0]['image'] u'http://thetvdb.com/banners/actors/43640.jpg' Any key starting with an underscore has been processed (not the raw data from the XML) """ log().debug("Getting actors for %s" % (sid)) actorsEt = self._getetsrc(self.config['url_actorsInfo'] % (sid)) cur_actors = Actors() for curActorItem in actorsEt.findall("Actor"): curActor = Actor() for curInfo in curActorItem: tag = curInfo.tag.lower() value = curInfo.text if value is not None: if tag == "image": value = self.config['url_artworkPrefix'] % (value) else: value = self._cleanData(value) curActor[tag] = value cur_actors.append(curActor) self._setShowData(sid, '_actors', cur_actors) def _getShowData(self, sid, language, seriesSearch=False): """Takes a series ID, gets the epInfo URL and parses the TVDB XML file into the shows dict in layout: shows[series_id][season_number][episode_number] """ if self.config['language'] is None: log().debug('Config language is none, using show language') if language is None: raise tvdb_error("config['language'] was None, this should not happen") getShowInLanguage = language else: log().debug( 'Configured language %s override show language of %s' % ( self.config['language'], language ) ) getShowInLanguage = self.config['language'] # Parse show information log().debug('Getting all series data for %s' % (sid)) seriesInfoEt = self._getetsrc( self.config['url_seriesInfo'] % (sid, getShowInLanguage) ) if seriesInfoEt is None: return False for curInfo in seriesInfoEt.findall("Series")[0]: tag = curInfo.tag.lower() value = curInfo.text if tag == 'seriesname' and value is None: return False if value is not None: if tag == 'id': value = int(value) if tag in ['banner', 'fanart', 'poster']: value = self.config['url_artworkPrefix'] % (value) else: value = self._cleanData(value) self._setShowData(sid, tag, value) if seriesSearch: return True # Parse banners if self.config['banners_enabled']: self._parseBanners(sid) # Parse actors if self.config['actors_enabled']: self._parseActors(sid) # Parse episode data log().debug('Getting all episodes of %s' % (sid)) if self.config['useZip']: url = self.config['url_epInfo_zip'] % (sid, language) else: url = self.config['url_epInfo'] % (sid, language) epsEt = self._getetsrc(url, language=language) for cur_ep in epsEt.findall("Episode"): if self.config['dvdorder']: log().debug('Using DVD ordering.') use_dvd = cur_ep.find('DVD_season').text != None and cur_ep.find('DVD_episodenumber').text != None else: use_dvd = False if use_dvd: seas_no = int(cur_ep.find('DVD_season').text) ep_no = int(float(cur_ep.find('DVD_episodenumber').text)) else: seas_no = int(cur_ep.find('SeasonNumber').text) ep_no = int(cur_ep.find('EpisodeNumber').text) useDVD = False if (self.config['dvdorder']): log().debug('DVD Order? Yes') useDVD = (cur_ep.find('DVD_season').text != None and cur_ep.find('DVD_episodenumber').text != None) else: log().debug('DVD Order? No') if (useDVD): log().debug('Use DVD Order? Yes') seas_no = int(cur_ep.find('DVD_season').text) ep_no = int(float(cur_ep.find('DVD_episodenumber').text)) else: log().debug('Use DVD Order? No') seas_no = int(cur_ep.find('SeasonNumber').text) ep_no = int(cur_ep.find('EpisodeNumber').text) for cur_item in cur_ep.getchildren(): tag = cur_item.tag.lower() value = cur_item.text if value is not None: if tag == 'id': value = int(value) if tag == 'filename': value = self.config['url_artworkPrefix'] % (value) else: value = self._cleanData(value) self._setItem(sid, seas_no, ep_no, tag, value) return True def _nameToSid(self, name): """Takes show name, returns the correct series ID (if the show has already been grabbed), or grabs all episodes and returns the correct SID. """ if name in self.corrections: log().debug('Correcting %s to %s' % (name, self.corrections[name])) return self.corrections[name] else: log().debug('Getting show %s' % (name)) selected_series = self._getSeries(name) if isinstance(selected_series, dict): selected_series = [selected_series] sids = list(int(x['id']) for x in selected_series if self._getShowData(int(x['id']), self.config['language'], seriesSearch=True)) self.corrections.update(dict((x['seriesname'], int(x['id'])) for x in selected_series)) return sids def __getitem__(self, key): """Handles tvdb_instance['seriesname'] calls. The dict index should be the show id """ if isinstance(key, (int, long)): # Item is integer, treat as show id if key not in self.shows: self._getShowData(key, self.config['language']) return self.shows[key] key = key.lower() # make key lower case sids = self._nameToSid(key) return list(self.shows[sid] for sid in sids) def __repr__(self): return str(self.shows) def main(): """Simple example of using tvdb_api - it just grabs an episode name interactively. """ import logging logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG) tvdb_instance = Tvdb(interactive=True, cache=False) print tvdb_instance['Lost']['seriesname'] print tvdb_instance['Lost'][1][4]['episodename'] if __name__ == '__main__': main()