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Episode thumbnails scraping and language handling - west - 2025-11-13
Current behavior of the TMDB scraper's episode thumbnails handling is to scrape English (or any) language-tagged backdrop images first then no-language-tagged (textless) backdrops last, and it does this regardless of upvote/rating numbers.
This causes the text backdrops to be downloaded by default since they are ordered first by the scraper.
Expected behavior is for the scraper to download the no language (textless) backdrop episode thumbnail, just as it appears and is presented on the TMDB site itself.
And ideally we need more granular configuration control in settings to allow the choice which to prioritize in the scraper.
And to my knowledge the reason it does this is because it's using the same catch-all logic that the poster artwork scraper uses.
So it's not unexpected behavior in the bug reporting sense, only in the user experience sense.