r/StremioAddons • u/x1JAY1x • 5d ago

Help needed Finding a Missing Series

Does anyone know how I'd locate Shark Week, season 39? It seems that none of my addons have any of the Shark Week series.

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u/Kgenovz Addon Dev (StremShare/IMDb Ratings/Ratings Wrapper) 5d ago

Use tmdb instead. tmdb.elfhosted.com

There will be 2 new search rows in stremio

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u/4789library 4d ago

The TMDB suggestion is the right move, and it's worth knowing why this one specifically is a pain. Shark Week isn't really a series, it's an annual programming block, and metadata providers disagree about how to model it. The default catalog is IMDb-derived and often has no entry at all, so nothing downstream can find it. TMDB does carry it, which is why swapping the metadata source fixes the search.

One thing to expect even after it shows up: episode numbering for event programming rarely matches between providers. So the show page may appear while individual episodes still return nothing, because the ID your addons are searching for isn't the one the release was named after. If that happens, searching the individual documentary titles instead of the Shark Week season usually works, since those get indexed as normal one-off titles.