[PHP] Getting the TV Show Banners from TheTVDB

Gaurav · Oct 6, 2010

Made this last night. Quite handy and can be integrated with a blog/forum. Postting the function here. Do update if you have an improved code

ATM, the function would search for the TV Show in the TheTVDB database, and if found will return the banner image link uploaded to lulzimg.com

PHP:

function getBanner($title){
    if(preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9.]+S[0-9]+E[0-9]+|[A-Za-z0-9.]+20[0-9.]+/", $title, $match)){
        $showname = trim(str_replace(".", " ", $match[0]));
        $showname = trim(preg_replace("/S[0-9]+E[0-9]+/", "", $showname));
        $url = "http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=".urlencode($showname);
        $page = postHost($url);
        if(preg_match("/graphical\/[a-z0-9A-Z.\-]+/", $page, $match)){
            $img = postHost("http://www.lulzimg.com/upload.php?submit=lulz&url=http://thetvdb.com/banners/$match[0]");
            //echo $img;
            preg_match_all("/http:\/\/lulzimg.com\/[a-z0-9]+\/[a-z0-9A-Z.]+/", $img, $matches);
            $imageUrl = $matches[0][1];
            return $imageUrl;
        }
    }
}

Please do note that the code above considers that the title of the show is in Scene Release format..

Also note, that the postHost function is a simple function which uses curl to post requests to TheTVDB. UTL and AutoUL users have that function in the script.

Ex:
The.Best.Thing.I.Ever.Ate.S03E03.Regional.Favorites.HDTV.XviD-MOMENTUM

Hope that helps.

Regards,
gunda316

Halcyon · Oct 6, 2010

Great job (y)

Gaurav · Oct 6, 2010

V3g3t4 said:
Great job (y)

Thnx V3g3t4

CJ · Oct 6, 2010

sexy =) thanks I wanted to have that. Its good :P

gtaclub · Oct 6, 2010

Good job bro...It is working fine...Thanks for you handy coding.

Daniel · Oct 6, 2010

Well done mate (y)

Gaurav · Oct 6, 2010

humour said:
sexy =) thanks I wanted to have that. Its good :P

gtaclub said:
Good job bro...It is working fine...Thanks for you handy coding.

mrsandvik said:
Well done mate (y)

NP.. I needed this myself :P

CJ · Oct 6, 2010

Here is the whole running PHP code. If u dont know how to make it work after seeing gundas post. I have just added the wrapper around the function (y) Gunda

PHP:

<?
function getBanner($title)
{
    if(preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9.]+S[0-9]+E[0-9]+|[A-Za-z0-9.]+20[0-9.]+/", $title, $match)){
        $showname = trim(str_replace(".", " ", $match[0]));
        $showname = trim(preg_replace("/S[0-9]+E[0-9]+/", "", $showname));
        $url = "http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=".urlencode($showname);
        $page = postHost($url, "", "");
        if(preg_match("/graphical\/[a-z0-9A-Z.\-]+/", $page, $match)){
            $img = postHost("http://www.lulzimg.com/upload.php?submit=lulz&url=http://thetvdb.com/banners/$match[0]", "", "");
            //echo $img;
            preg_match_all("/http:\/\/lulzimg.com\/[a-z0-9]+\/[a-z0-9A-Z.]+/", $img, $matches);
            $imageUrl = $matches[0][1];
            return $imageUrl;
        }
    }
} 
function postHost($url)
{
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
	$source_code = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $source_code;
}
if (empty($_POST))
{
?>
<form method=post>
<input type="text" name="img" />
<input type="Submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?PHP
}
else
{
$img= getBanner($_POST['img']);
echo "<B>$img</B><BR/><BR/>";
echo "<img src=\"$img\" />";
}
?>

If you dont know how to run it than plz dont use it

Note: Not all the release name would work. Most of them work tho

Thanks Gunda u are charm <3

Gaurav · Oct 6, 2010

humour said:

Here is the whole running PHP code. If u dont know how to make it work after seeing gundas post. I have just added the wrapper around the function (y) Gunda

PHP:

<?
function getBanner($title)
{
    if(preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9.]+S[0-9]+E[0-9]+|[A-Za-z0-9.]+20[0-9.]+/", $title, $match)){
        $showname = trim(str_replace(".", " ", $match[0]));
        $showname = trim(preg_replace("/S[0-9]+E[0-9]+/", "", $showname));
        $url = "http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=".urlencode($showname);
        $page = postHost($url, "", "");
        if(preg_match("/graphical\/[a-z0-9A-Z.\-]+/", $page, $match)){
            $img = postHost("http://www.lulzimg.com/upload.php?submit=lulz&url=http://thetvdb.com/banners/$match[0]", "", "");
            //echo $img;
            preg_match_all("/http:\/\/lulzimg.com\/[a-z0-9]+\/[a-z0-9A-Z.]+/", $img, $matches);
            $imageUrl = $matches[0][1];
            return $imageUrl;
        }
    }
} 
function postHost($url)
{
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
	$source_code = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $source_code;
}
if (empty($_POST))
{
?>
<form method=post>
<input type="text" name="img" />
<input type="Submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?PHP
}
else
{
$img= getBanner($_POST['img']);
echo "<B>$img</B><BR/><BR/>";
echo "<img src=\"$img\" />";
}
?>

If you dont know how to run it than plz dont use it

Note: Not all the release name would work. Most of them work tho

Thanks Gunda u are charm <3

Thnx humour.. I was too lazy to add that xD

aishamontreal · Oct 6, 2010

haha thanks gunda, just integrated it to Yawn' script =D

CJ · Oct 6, 2010

For uploading image to imgur use this replacement

PHP:

function getBanner($title){
    if(preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9.]+S[0-9]+E[0-9]+|[A-Za-z0-9.]+20[0-9.]+/", $title, $match)){
        $showname = trim(str_replace(".", " ", $match[0]));
        $showname = trim(preg_replace("/S[0-9]+E[0-9]+/", "", $showname));
        $url = "http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=".urlencode($showname);
        $page = postHost($url);
        if(preg_match("/graphical\/[a-z0-9A-Z.\-]+/", $page, $match)){
            $img = postHost("http://api.imgur.com/2/upload?url=http://thetvdb.com/banners/$match[0]");
            //echo $img;
            preg_match_all("/http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/[a-z0-9A-Z.]+/", $img, $matches);
            $imageUrl = $matches[0][1];
            return $imageUrl;
        }
    }
}

Gaurav · Oct 6, 2010

thnx again humour..

thnx for ur comment aisha

orbofdarkness · Oct 8, 2010

Wow This is Awesome ... Thanks a lot .. TC.. Peace Out.

Orb.

Gaurav · Oct 8, 2010

np

use it in the best possible way!

aishamontreal · Oct 9, 2010

np gunda =D

Dulalala · Oct 12, 2010

humour said:

Here is the whole running PHP code. If u dont know how to make it work after seeing gundas post. I have just added the wrapper around the function (y) Gunda

PHP:

<?
function getBanner($title)
{
    if(preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9.]+S[0-9]+E[0-9]+|[A-Za-z0-9.]+20[0-9.]+/", $title, $match)){
        $showname = trim(str_replace(".", " ", $match[0]));
        $showname = trim(preg_replace("/S[0-9]+E[0-9]+/", "", $showname));
        $url = "http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=".urlencode($showname);
        $page = postHost($url, "", "");
        if(preg_match("/graphical\/[a-z0-9A-Z.\-]+/", $page, $match)){
            $img = postHost("http://www.lulzimg.com/upload.php?submit=lulz&url=http://thetvdb.com/banners/$match[0]", "", "");
            //echo $img;
            preg_match_all("/http:\/\/lulzimg.com\/[a-z0-9]+\/[a-z0-9A-Z.]+/", $img, $matches);
            $imageUrl = $matches[0][1];
            return $imageUrl;
        }
    }
} 
function postHost($url)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
    $source_code = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $source_code;
}
if (empty($_POST))
{
?>
<form method=post>
<input type="text" name="img" />
<input type="Submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?PHP
}
else
{
$img= getBanner($_POST['img']);
echo "<B>$img</B><BR/><BR/>";
echo "<img src=\"$img\" />";
}
?>

If you dont know how to run it than plz dont use it

Note: Not all the release name would work. Most of them work tho

Thanks Gunda u are charm <3

Any idea on how to make this script work on cli?

kundurocks · Apr 25, 2011

PHP:

function getBanner($title){
    if(preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9.]+S[0-9]+E[0-9]+|[A-Za-z0-9.]+20[0-9.]+/", $title, $match)){
        $showname = trim(str_replace(".", " ", $match[0]));
        $showname = trim(preg_replace("/S[0-9]+E[0-9]+/", "", $showname));
        $url = "http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=".urlencode($showname);
        $page = postHostBan($url);
        //echo("<br />".$page."<br /><br />");
        if(preg_match("/graphical\/[a-z0-9A-Z.\-]+/", $page, $match)){
            $pic = $match[0];
            $img =  postHost("http://imgclub.org/?url=http://cache.thetvdb.com/banners/$pic", "", "");
            preg_match("/http:\/\/imgclub.org\/images\/[A-Za-z0-9.]+.jpg/", $img, $match);
            $imageUrl = $match[0];
            return $imageUrl;
        }
    }
}  

function postHostBan($url)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
    $source_code = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $source_code;
}

Uploads to IMGClub and fixed it a bit.

batori · Apr 19, 2012

is there a chance of having info on the show printed out too?

Halcyon · Apr 20, 2012

^ Go and check their API, you'll find a lot of helpful things

batori · Apr 20, 2012

heh thanks, i already did that and added info

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