Re^2: Please review this: code to extract the season/episode or date from a TV show's title on a torrent site

That's a really tricky question.

I don't see many other date formats, and there's really no way, in code at least, to deal with the possibility that someone has got the month and date the wrong way round and their August 1 is really January 8.

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Re^3: Please review this: code to extract the season/episode or date from a TV show's title on a torrent site by hippo (Archbishop) on Aug 18, 2016 at 10:11 UTC
You could look at consecutively-numbered episodes and see if they are 1 week (or whatever) apart. Or at least that each later-numbered episode has a later date.	[reply]
Re^4: Please review this: code to extract the season/episode or date from a TV show's title on a torrent site by Cody Fendant (Hermit) on Aug 18, 2016 at 21:46 UTC
They don't have numbers at all, I'm afraid, so there's no "consecutive" data to be accessed. This is shows like the Daily Show which are normally found in a form like `The.Daily.Show.2016.08.15.Daniel.Radcliffe.HDTV.x264-W4F[eztv].mkv` (recent example).	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Please review this: code to extract the season/episode or date from a TV show's title on a torrent site by Anonymous Monk on Aug 18, 2016 at 10:21 UTC
Yup ... may need to account for idiosyncrasies per provider, say by assigning a different regex/parser.	[reply]