False positive duplicates getting removed from API about arm-server HOT 3 CLOSED

In the first iteration of the generator, TheMovieDB only covered the Movie Side of things so it made sense to only query or look up and add the TheMovieDB ID to entries that are a Movie.

However, for a while now, TheMovieDB also provides TV Shows on their end and someone made a request that a Show should also contain a TheMovieDB ID if available. This was the reason for the generator being refactored.

But the list itself is still based on individual releases like MyAnimeList and a couple of other Databases do it. This means that the individual Seasons and releases of, for example, KonoSuba can have the same TheMovieDB and TheTVDB IDs because those sources don't list them as individual releases but as "combined" one (One show, multiple seasons).

here is an example for KonoSuba Season 1 + 2 and an OVA.

 {
    "livechart_id": 1615,
    "thetvdb_id": 303867,
    "anime-planet_id": "konosuba-gods-blessing-on-this-wonderful-world",
    "imdb_id": "tt5370118",
    "anisearch_id": 10448,
    "themoviedb_id": 65844,
    "anidb_id": 11261,
    "kitsu_id": 10941,
    "mal_id": 30831,
    "type": "TV",
    "notify.moe_id": "NZ8lpFiig",
    "anilist_id": 21202
  },
  {
    "livechart_id": 2077,
    "thetvdb_id": 303867,
    "anime-planet_id": "konosuba-gods-blessing-on-this-wonderful-world-2",
    "imdb_id": "tt5370118",
    "anisearch_id": 11210,
    "themoviedb_id": 65844,
    "anidb_id": 11992,
    "kitsu_id": 11937,
    "mal_id": 32937,
    "type": "TV",
    "notify.moe_id": "vVO6tFmig",
    "anilist_id": 21699
  },
  {
    "livechart_id": 3359,
    "thetvdb_id": 303867,
    "anime-planet_id": "konosuba-gods-blessing-on-this-wonderful-world-2-ova",
    "imdb_id": "tt5370118",
    "anisearch_id": 12616,
    "themoviedb_id": 65844,
    "anidb_id": 13317,
    "kitsu_id": 13136,
    "mal_id": 34626,
    "type": "OVA",
    "notify.moe_id": "WmpG2Kmmg",
    "anilist_id": 97996
  },

They all have different mal_ids but the same themoviedb_id and thetvdb_id because on TMDB and TVDB they are one show, on MAL they are different releases. So yes, they should have a TheMovieDB to get the relation between the MAL release for KonoSuba Season 2 and the Show on TheMovieDB.

from arm-server.

This could be caused by the recent refactoring in https://github.com/Fribb/anime-lists-generator, cc @Fribb. I don’t think these titles are even supposed to contain TheMovieDB IDs.

from arm-server.

Then I'll just do what I did with thetvdb and add a separate endpoint for querying their IDs since the normal ones assume one entry per ID

from arm-server.