a bug in the search bar ?

[MrTinkertrain]

I wanted to see if there were covers in the database for The Firm.
That was a short-lived supergroup in the mid-eigthies with Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page among others.

However, when I typed "firm" into the searchbar nothing happened (or so it seemed to me)
It got me back to the mainpage, with no search results whatsoever (no music, no movies or tv results)

I was able to find the page for The Firm however.
I needed to use the word "the" as search term.
But that obviously gave quite a few hits, so it took quite a long time for the search results to show up

[akovia]

I can't really say how our search works as far as fuzziness is concerned. Since we search multiple databases, it might need to be more exact.

There is however one certain way to find something on our site.
Find it on the sites we search and find the ID and use that instead.

For example,
for a movie (let's say "The Avengers") you would search themoviedb.org and end up here..
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/[b]24428[/b]-the-avengers

Now take note of the ID and use it to craft a URL on our site like this
https://fanart.tv/movie/[b]24428[/b]

Bingo!


For a TV series you would do it like this..
Search thetvdb.com for Dr Who
http://thetvdb.com/?id=[b]78804[/b]&tab=series

Now craft it for our site..
https://fanart.tv/series/78804


Lastly, for music
Search musicbrainz.org for The Firm..
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/[b]c08ced1f-d248-4368-90e5-bf579b3bf5de[/b]

and our URL
https://fanart.tv/artist/[b]c08ced1f-d248-4368-90e5-bf579b3bf5de[/b]


Also, once you find it on the site that we actually source the information from, you can usually see if it's listed as something different than what you searched for when you couldn't find it. This isn't 100% as it may not have a dedicated "English Name" set, so it may show up on our site as no-english-title-set. This won't prevent you from uploading your images. It just means the name won't show on our site, so it's just a visual thing and won't effect media centers accessing that art via the API as that is done by ID and not names.

I hope that helps for the future.

[MrTinkertrain]

Thanks for the explanation, akovia
Much appreciated