Separate root folder for Anime

[nylonee]

A feature request has come in to have separate root folders in Sonarr for anime and non-anime, this may be possible if I can find some indication from the API that a show is anime, but I'll have to check

[nylonee]

Yes we can get:

        "seriesType": "standard",

in the response for each series.

When it's anime, it'll look like:

        "seriesType": "anime",

Should be straightforward to implement, I'll get cracking soon

[nylonee]

Ah sorry I was looking at the Sonarr API call, but actually what I needed was the Plex API to tell me whether something's anime or not.

I've had a look and there's no distinction on the Plex side, both for RSS feeds and normal API calls.

Unfortunately I'll have to park this as it's a bit more challenging than initially anticipated

[stamatis921]

Hi @nylonee, would it be possible to workaround this by allowing using separate root folders/quality profiles for different watchlists? Or even just split off the admin watchlist from friend watchlists? Someone could then use a seperate Plex account for the purpose of maintaining a anime watchlist. Would also be useful for having users on different quality profiles (1080) than the admin (4K).

[nylonee]

Hmm interesting idea, it's certainly possible if you have multiple watchlistarr instances running, and you lock down the watchlist syncing to one Plex account by using SKIP_FRIEND_SYNC=true. This doesn't require any extra development work on my part.

[nylonee]

I definitely would want to support a separate profile/root folder setting natively though, especially for anime.
A possible solution here would be to look up a show, and fetch the metadata which would likely tell me if the show is anime or not.

The work to do this would only affect one function:
https://github.com/nylonee/watchlistarr/blob/main/src/main/scala/sonarr/SonarrUtils.scala#L28-L51

The lookup needs to be fast - using Sonarr's lookup API would be pretty slow and inaccurate. This is the problem at the moment as Sonarr doesn't seem to have a way to lookup metadata without the lookup API (which just takes a string). Trying to get a feature request/PR into Sonarr to improve this is also going to be nearly impossible until this is resolved.

So the best alternative is to call the API directly provided by TVDB, which involves setting up yet another API key!