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Posted: 06 Mar 2021 12:07

Ovokx
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Great work. BTW, once you complete a league and want to let us know it, please do it better on the kits post (https://www.thesportsdb.com/forum_topic.php?t=4903), as this post is related to new features applied by Zag

Posted: 07 Mar 2021 23:42
GOAviator
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Sorry

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 21:02

zag
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- More security hardening for the main site.
- Better performance as we get more heavy API users. I've redone a lot of the SQL lookups to increase the speed.

Posted: 09 Apr 2021 22:00

zag
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- Baseball Result descriptions auto update to show the innings scores now as well as total hits and errors.
Example: https://www.thesportsdb.com/event/1110764

- Basketball Result descriptions auto update to show the quarter scores as well as overtime.
Example: https://www.thesportsdb.com/event/1113801


Ovokx
Posted: 11 Apr 2021 20:41

zag
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Transfers now show the player cutout if available. Useful for finding missing cutouts and fixing quickly.

Example
https://www.thesportsdb.com/transfers.php?s=Baseball

Posted: 17 May 2021 14:08
MaximeGo31
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Hi,
It would be nice to be able to indicate the sporting nationality of a player. For example, Romain Grosjean was born in Switzerland, but he is considered as French during competitions.

zag
Posted: 17 May 2021 14:14

zag
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Hi,
It would be nice to be able to indicate the sporting nationality of a player. For example, Romain Grosjean was born in Switzerland, but he is considered as French during competitions.


Actually the nationality is supposed to be the flag, So feel free to update it for the player.

Posted: 17 May 2021 14:16

zag
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A few small updates:

- Added player nationality flag to home and away event lineups
- Changed Youtube preview to high quality on event page and added link to youtube instead of embedded to stop errors.
- Added "Kodi NFO" metadata download to bottom of event pages

Ovokx
Posted: 17 May 2021 14:22
MaximeGo31
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Actually the nationality is supposed to be the flag, So feel free to update it for the player.


Ok, I thought the flag should match the country of birth


Posted: 22 May 2021 09:05

Ovokx
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- Changed Youtube preview to high quality on event page and added link to youtube instead of embedded to stop errors.

Cool! Any chance to resize also Youtube previews on the front page in order to avoid displaying the black stripes and gain some space?

Posted: 22 May 2021 16:03

zag
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- Changed Youtube preview to high quality on event page and added link to youtube instead of embedded to stop errors.

Cool! Any chance to resize also Youtube previews on the front page in order to avoid displaying the black stripes and gain some space?


Good idea, I've made the change but will need to be a trail as some videos don't always have a high resolution preview.

Ovokx
Posted: 08 Jun 2021 18:42

Ovokx
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Changes were reverted? Black lines are back on the front page and event pages

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 19:15

zag
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Changes were reverted? Black lines are back on the front page and event pages

Yes I found that not all videos had HQ previews sadly. Had to revert.

Posted: 20 Jun 2021 10:52
Splendid
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- Added "Kodi NFO" metadata download to bottom of event pages


Hi, great news !
Could you also add the poster URL in the section ?

Thanks

Posted: 20 Jun 2021 14:04

zag
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- Added "Kodi NFO" metadata download to bottom of event pages

Hi, great news !
Could you also add the poster URL in the section ?

Thanks


Sure do you have an example of how it should look? I can do any artwork.

Posted: 21 Jun 2021 17:31
Splendid
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Sure, I have this nfo file I made from https://www.thesportsdb.com/event/1102685 :


[?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?]
[episodedetails xmlns:xsi="https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"]
[title]UFC on ABC: Holloway vs. Kattar[/title]
[season]2021[/season]
[episode]01[/episode]
[plot]UFC on ABC: Holloway vs. Kattar (also known as UFC on ABC 1 and UFC Fight Island 7) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on January 16, 2021 at the Etihad Arena on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.[/plot]
[thumb]https://www.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/poster/755cwn1616241865.jpg[/thumb]
[aired]2021-01-16[/aired]
[premiered]2021-01-16[/premiered]
[uniqueid type="thesportsdb" default="true"]1102685[/uniqueid]
[/episodedetails]


The main additions from the current generated file are thumb and uniqueid. I'm not sure premiered is necessary though...

Posted: 21 Jun 2021 18:36

zag
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Cool updated. Let me know if that works.

https://www.thesportsdb.com/nfo.php?id=1102685

I can also add other artwork if wanted.

Posted: 22 Jun 2021 18:19
Splendid
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The thumb is not loaded as is.
The aspect can be specified like this, then Kodi can display both pictures (depending on which menu is on screen) :
[thumb aspect="thumb"]https://www.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/thumb/ifvf5a1616241986.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb aspect="poster"]https://www.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/poster/755cwn1616241865.jpg[/thumb]

The others fields are all good.

Posted: 23 Jun 2021 08:43

zag
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Thanks! Updated.

How does it look now?

Posted: 23 Jun 2021 18:03
Splendid
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Awesome, all the content is scraped by Kodi now!

Just a last request regarding this feature : could you also add a header, to download the nfo more easily, with a default name ?
Something like this :
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="UFC.2021-01-16.UFC.on.ABC.1.Holloway.vs.Kattar.nfo"

Thanks a lot.

Posted: 30 Jun 2021 16:28
cardinaldiehard25
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A new feature that I think would be cool is to have an "Add TV" button at a league level instead of just an event level. At least in the USA there are a ton of leagues where every single game is available on a channel/streaming service.

As a contributor you would add the TV Channel and the length of the broadcast deal. All events within that timeframe would automatically be shown with that tv channel as a default.

For example:
German Bundesliga: ESPN+ 2020-2026

A better idea might be to add it on the season page instead of the league page.

zag
Posted: 30 Jun 2021 19:27

Ovokx
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A new feature that I think would be cool is to have an "Add TV" button at a league level instead of just an event level. At least in the USA there are a ton of leagues where every single game is available on a channel/streaming service.

As a contributor you would add the TV Channel and the length of the broadcast deal. All events within that timeframe would automatically be shown with that tv channel as a default.

For example:
German Bundesliga: ESPN+ 2020-2026

A better idea might be to add it on the season page instead of the league page.


The issue here is that currently if you add TV info to a fixture, this info can't be changed/updated. So, if the event get cancelled or posponed or simply, gets a variation at the starting time, this info will be wrong as it keeps the info available when you enter the TV info.

It's for that reason that I only add TV info the day before it starts the fixture in order to be sure that it's the most accurated as possible.



Posted: 30 Jun 2021 20:18

zag
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The issue here is that currently if you add TV info to a fixture, this info can't be changed/updated. So, if the event get cancelled or posponed or simply, gets a variation at the starting time, this info will be wrong as it keeps the info available when you enter the TV info.

It's for that reason that I only add TV info the day before it starts the fixture in order to be sure that it's the most accurated as possible.


Deleted events now remove the TV data as well. Changed events i will need to look into some more.

Posted: 30 Jun 2021 20:19

zag
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A new feature that I think would be cool is to have an "Add TV" button at a league level instead of just an event level. At least in the USA there are a ton of leagues where every single game is available on a channel/streaming service.

As a contributor you would add the TV Channel and the length of the broadcast deal. All events within that timeframe would automatically be shown with that tv channel as a default.

For example:
German Bundesliga: ESPN+ 2020-2026

A better idea might be to add it on the season page instead of the league page.


Cool I like the idea, I made a simple text box for it on the league page for now. See MLS as an example

https://www.thesportsdb.com/league/4346

cardinaldiehard25
Posted: 30 Jun 2021 21:32
cardinaldiehard25
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Cool I like the idea, I made a simple text box for it on the league page for now. See MLS as an example

https://www.thesportsdb.com/league/4346


I like the way you implemented it, I think it is good for awareness and a nice addition to the league page. I updated a bunch of soccer leagues with US rights. I kept the rights at a higher level like CBS Sports, Fox Sports, ESPN, etc.



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