What to Do When Scrapers Don't Match Trakt

Hi All,

I’m not sure what the right answer is but there are times when scrapers don’t match Trakt. I’m inclined to say that Trakt should always match major scrapers because that’s usually what users rely on for media centers but sometimes Trakt is more accurate…it’s complicated but I figured I’d ask to see what others have done to deal with this.

An example:
Wolfboy and the Everything Factory - Trakt (2 seasons, 38 total episodes)
Wolfboy and the Everything Factory (TV Series 2021-2022) — The Movie Database (TMDB) (2 seasons, 20 episodes, looks like it combines episodes into 1 based on release date, each episode is only 12 minutes long or so, for a 30 minute slot on TV, two get played).

That’s a TMDb and scraper mismatch, which is just something that happens - it’s not a Trakt issue.

Trakt doesn’t supply any streams, it’s simply is there to aggregate things you have watched. It follows the rules of TMDb and how they list things (or tvdb in some instances) and they are pretty strict with what they allow. Scrapers are something entirely different, not related to any of the sites, and rely on the individual uploaders and how they label the files (many a time completely wrong) that the scraper might search for.

To learn how to get around the mismatches, see if you can find a Facebook group or subreddit that deals with whatever app or addon you use.

My scraper is TMDb . . . as the link suggested :slight_smile:

That’s not the scraper if you mean looking for links to watch. That is the site the metadata comes from. The scraper uses that info to search multiple sites for links. Two separate entities. Trakt and TMDb have no relation to any scrapers.

Either way scrapers not finding stuff using Trakt (and hence TMDb) is not a Trakt problem.

Kodi calls it a scraper (looking up info, not looking for links to watch). https://kodi.wiki/view/Scrapers

As my links show, TMDB is not matching Trakt.

Ah, that is for physical items you have in your library to “scrape”, or match it to, the metadata info (title, description, year etc) from TMDb. In 99% of cases the info on TMDb will exactly match Trakt as that is now Trakt’s primary site for getting that same info. In some cases, Trakt still uses tvdb, usually when TMDb is radically different. For Wolfboy it’s still using tvdb. In this (Wolfboy) case (especially if your physical library matches the TMDb listing), since TMDb is matching Apple’s episode listing then you can report the show from it’s page on Trakt and let them know the info is incorrect and give them the Apple TV link as proof. Trakt are usually pretty quick to fix things.

If you DON’T have the physical copies but looking for links then those scrapers are entirely different and are the ones I thought you meant.

Nfo files?

Sorry for delay here, no nfo files, direct pulls from TMDb.

Did you report the show on Trakt?

Ah no I mean you could use nfo files to override/control metadata and stuff.

https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files/Creating