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I as I understand there is cache that is updated on a periodic bases that services API requests. on a platform level will it be possible to have different cache timeouts for certian shows (like the The Daily Show) which is updated more often than a weekly show.? maybe even something event based that when a user contributes a new episode to the show we can expire the cache.

this aids in the auto scraping software like sickbeard and xbmc...

thanks.

(I'm sure one of the admins will correct me if I'm wrong) I believe current system already works in such a way that every time a change is made to a show, it is added to a queue and the entire show's cache is updated in 15mins-1hour.

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This is correct. Except for on the rare occasions that we have to do a complete xml rebuild (once a year or less) most api info is current in around 15 minutes. I believe that xbmc iteself keeps a local cache which is not instantly updated as I've seen myself and heard others complain about the data not being current even hours later. Not sure how sickbeard handles this, but I doubt it pulls xml from the site every few minutes when it checks for show updates.

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this usually manifests itself in sickbeard when it find a scene release to download but cannot find any associated tvdb data until the cache is updated, and hence fails to post process the show and notify xbmc that a new show was added to the library.

again this is more prevalent in shows that have daily episodes rather than the weekly shows, this is not 100% since usually tvdb is updated with the full week's episodes ahead of time, its when a new set of episodes starts or the show is on haitus for a week or two.

also thanks for the explanation.

New API may not need any sort of caching, since it's all based on MongoDB. Otherwise it'll be 100% squid/varnish and setting up more optimized rules like this shouldn't be too difficult.

100% squid varnish sounds kinda hilarious btw.

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