Metadata scraping is a feature Thea uses when:

• Thea’s automated ingestion service is ingesting a newly-detected file.
• If the user is performing a manual download and has chosen to let Thea try to auto-complete the media information

As this process is automatic, the only information we have is the file itself, but we need media information for TMDB Searching

1. Same as the above; allow Thea to try and extract the info automatically

2. Provide an IMDB ID manually

   <aside> 📋 TODO: Ensure that an ID referring to a specific episode can be provided, otherwise we’ll need to provide the user a way to specify the season/episode number as well.

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3. Provide a TMDB ID manually

Title String Matching

Thea uses a simple set of regular expressions to try and find the information that it wants from the file’s title:

• Title
• Resolution
• Season/episode information

File System Metadata

Metadata attached to the file can often provide a more accurate version of the information extracted via title parsing. If present then it is used in-place of the information gathered via title parsing.

Using ffprobe

We can use ffprobe to accurately gather:

• Runtime
• Resolution