Many thanks for the Import Your Data tool that was recently added. This has huge potential for migrating my data over to Trakt, however, unfortunately, it has one critical bug that makes it unusable for TV shows…
When a Movie and a TV Show share an ID, Trakt always chooses the movie.
Let me give some examples:
“tmdb_id”: 918552
This should return RWBY S04E01 but instead ends up as the movie Long Beach Island. Since they share the same TMDB ID.
Ok, so TMDB ID doesn’t work, what about Trakt ID? Surely that one should work…
“trakt_id”: 927093
Nope! This should return RWBY S01E01 but instead ends up as the movie Op. 3 No. 4. This is because they share the same Trakt ID.
Now this still leaves two options, IMDB and TVDB. Unfortunately, when querying the Trakt API both sources are missing IDs for many episodes and cannot be used as a reliable alternative (e.g., RWBY S09E01).
Ideally, there just needs to be an additional field added to the JSON input format to distinguish the ID as a movie or TV episode. For example:
“kind”: “tv”
Or add as a suffix to ID field…
“tmdb_id_tv”: 918552
Whatever floats the boat as long as its functional!
P.S., one more less critical issue, but it would be nice if you could import entire shows by ID not just one episode at a time. This is a blocker for importing TV shows to the watchlist, since you typically plan to watch an entire show, not just an episode…
Looking forward to the fix!