How to accept the same release twice in different tasks using series plugin?

[mramor]

Hello.

It's my first post here and I want to thank everyone related for a great tool which FlexGet is!

I use FlexGet to get TV episodes and use series plugin as a filter. Lately I thought it would be nice not only to get notified when an episode is getting downloaded (it's trivial, thanks to the FlexGet developers) but also when it's getting PREd (i.e. initially announced in #PRE channel on IRC). For this purpose I made a task which parses IRC log using tail plugin and sends pushbullet notification when some announced release passes the configured series plugin. I also use "seen: local" in this notification task so the matched release won't be denied in subsequent download tasks. But releases are getting denied. And the reason is episode_releases.downloaded field which is getting set to True when release is being accepted by series plugin in the notification task, although it's not actually downloaded at that moment.

At this point I'm looking for an advise to get the desired plan to work. Would it be reasonable to add something like 'dont_mark_accepted_releases_as_downloaded' option to series plugin which then could be used in a notification task like mine? Or is it possible not to call on_task_learn method in such cases? Or maybe there is another way to make what I want here? And, by the way, isn't episode_releases.downloaded field just duplicates what seen plugin does?

[jonybat]

You can use the series plugin in parse_only mode, together with seen: local

Read this on how to accept series without making them as accepted for the series db:
http://flexget.com/wiki/Plugins/series/parse_only

[mramor]

After a quick test I can say it did the trick. Thanks a lot!
I knew that everything is possible with FlexGet and I just missed something

[mramor]

I think it's worth noting that since parse_only turns off series filtering you'll get false positive results in tasks that use it. To avoid it one should use separate filter plugins (e.g. use quality plugin instead of series' quality option) configured to mimic series plugin filtering rules.

[jonybat]

In the link that i posted above:

If you use this option you will need some other filter plugin to accept the entries you want. If you wish to accept all entries parsed by the series plugin, you can use a combination of the accept_all and the require_field plugin set to require the series_name field.

You can also use quality instead of accept_all

[mramor]

You can also use quality instead of accept_all

Yes, that's what I do in my config.

[jonybat]

Sorry, i misread your previous post.

[mramor]

You can also use quality instead of accept_all

Recently I noticed that my notification task doesn't produce any output. After a short investigation I found that quality plugin can only reject entries. So accept_all cannot be replaced by quality plugin, they should be used together.

[liiight]

That's incorrect. All filter plugins both reject and accept by their settings. Quality can be used to exclude or include entries based on, well, their quality. Using it together with accept_all is pointless.

[gazpachoking]

@mramor is right, the quality plugin never accepts anything, only rejects. It is meant to be combined with some other plugin that accepts things (including accept_all.)

[mramor]

Until I added accept_all: yes matched entries stayed in Undecided state even if they pass quality filter rules. Also there are no explicit entry.accept calls in quality plugin source file.
@gazpachoking thanks for confirming my thoughts

[liiight]

I see, i apologize for misleading. I got it mixed up with quality setting for series and movie queue, which are already a part of other filters.

[keksznet]

can you paste your config please?

it would be interesting for me as well...

thank you in advance!

[mramor]

This is my current config:

secrets: secrets.yml

templates:
  transmission:
    transmission: yes
  pushbullet:
    pushbullet:
      apikey: '{{secrets.pushbullet.apikey}}'
      title: '{{task}}'
      body: '{{title}}'
  tv-config:
    configure_series:
      settings:
        path: '{{secrets.series.root_dir}}{{secrets.series.season_dir}}'
      from:
        filesystem: '{{secrets.series.root_dir}}'
    series:
      - Match.Of.The.Day.2:
          alternate_name: Match.Of.The.Day.Two
    exists_series: '{{secrets.series.root_dir}}{{secrets.series.season_dir}}'
    quality: 720p
  tv:
    template:
      - tv-config
      - transmission
      - pushbullet

tasks:
  PRE-IRC:
    seen: local
    configure_series:
      settings:
        parse_only: yes
    require_field: series_name
    accept_all: yes
    template:
      - tv-config
      - pushbullet
    priority: 1

  SCC-HDTV-IRC:
    tail:
      file: '{{secrets.scc.hdtv_log}}'
      entry:
        title: ': -> (.+?) '
        url: 'id=(\d+)'
      format:
        url: 'https://sceneaccess.eu/download/%(url)s/{{secrets.scc.passkey}}/%(title)s.torrent'
    template:
      - tv
    priority: 2

  TB-HDTV-IRC:
    tail:
      file: '{{secrets.tb.hdtv_log}}'
      entry:
        title: '\[TB-RLS\] \.:\. \[ (.+?) \] '
        url: '(https://www\.torrentbytes\.net/download\.php\?id=\d+)'
      format:
        url: '%(url)s&SSL=1'
    template:
      - tv
    priority: 3
    headers:
      Cookie: "uid={{secrets.tb.uid}}; pass={{secrets.tb.pass}}"

  TV-HDTV-IRC:
    tail:
      file: '{{secrets.tv.hdtv_log}}'
      entry:
        title: '<InfoVault> NEW -#- .+? -#- Name: (.+?) '
        url: '(https://www\.torrentvault\.org/torrents\.php\?id=\d+)'
      format:
        url: '%(url)s&action=download&authkey={{secrets.tv.authkey}}&torrent_pass={{secrets.tv.torrent_pass}}'
    template:
      - tv
    priority: 4

schedules:
  - tasks: '*-HDTV-IRC'
    interval:
      minutes: 0.1

It's a transitional version. I inject entries to PRE-IRC task from an external tool which monitors and filters PRE-log. I still call the download tasks on schedule because they use some private values which are conveniently located in secrets.yml file.
I'd like to either use Flexget REST API to inject entries or (even better) get the tail plugin watching files in background like tail -f command does. Unfortunately I have not enough skills to make such modification myself.

[keksznet]

Thank you!