How to handle series identified by ep and date?

[Senorsmartypants]

I'm following a series that is named inconsistently. Some weeks with will be indentified_by ep others it will be by date. Is there anyway that I can make flexget grab episodes no matter the naming style? So far each week is internally consistent, i.e. same episode is not posted twice under two ids.

Thanks.

[OmgOhnoes]

If the date/episode filters do pick up the series and the series is only being rejected because Flexget has "locked" into either date or episode then you could specify "auto" as the episode format: Identified By Plugin

It would then accept both formats in perpetuity without locking in.

Alternatively if you don't care about episode tracking you can create a regular expression to always download the episodes regardless of format but you would get duplicates the RSS ever had multiple postings of the same episode.

[turb0chrg]

Old topic, but I am having the same issue. My series is locked onto identified_by date and I was going to change it to sequence as more often than not that is the foramt I'm seeing. Now auto sounds even better! How do I change the identified by from the CLI where I've been doing my configuration?

$ ~/flexget/bin/flexget series begin "Real Time With Bill Maher" S15E15
There is a FlexGet process already running for this config, sending execution there.
begin`value`S15E15`does not match identifier type for identified_by`date`


Thanks.

[liiight]

The answer is literally in the post above you, identified by option in the series

[turb0chrg]

Thanks for the reply.

I made the change in my config.yml:

templates:
  television:
    thetvdb_lookup: yes
    download: ~/watch/television
    series:
      settings:
        set:
          path: /storage
         rename:
          timeframe: 30 minutes
          target: 720p hdtv|webrip|webdl
          set:
            movedone: /storage/sync/television
            content_filename: "{{ tvdb_series_name }}.{{ tvdb_ep_id }}.{{ quality }}"
      rename:
        - Real Time with Bill Maher:
            identified_by: auto

I restarted flexget and tried again:

$ sudo systemctl status flexget

$ ~/flexget/bin/flexget series begin "Real Time With Bill Maher" S15E16
There is a FlexGet process already running for this config, sending execution there.
beginvalueS15E16does not match identifier type for identified_bydate

Do I need to wait until it sees another episode? I have in the back of my head that I switched this from sequence to date using the CLI and I need to set I back that way!

Cheers

[liiight]

Look here https://flexget.com/Plugins/series/identified_by.
You configure it directly, not under set