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A series whose seasons are numbered differently on TheTVDB than on TMDB cannot be requested at all. Seerr refuses to send a season it cannot confirm, which is the right call, but it leaves the request permanently stuck with nothing the user can do about it.

Such a request can now be resolved by hand. The user confirms which series it really is, then says which TheTVDB season matches each season they asked for, and Seerr sends those instead. The mapping is remembered against the show, so availability and download progress still line up afterwards rather than the season quietly never being marked available. Nothing is guessed here since both choices are the user's and requests nobody has mapped behave exactly as before.

How Has This Been Tested?

  • Unit tests add new cases covering a request where one season is mapped and another is not, which is what proves the mapping is applied per season rather than switching the check off for the whole request.
  • Tested manually against the real case that prompted this. Requested the 2024 season of the Channel 4 Great British Bake Off listing (2017), let it fail, used the search action to confirm the correct TheTVDB series, mapped the requested season to its TheTVDB number, and confirmed sonarr received the mapped season and began searching. Confirmed in the database that the mapping, the confirmed series, and the Sonarr series id were all recorded agains the request.

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  • I have updated the documentation accordingly.
  • All new and existing tests passed.
  • Successful build pnpm build
  • Translation keys pnpm i18n:extract
  • Database migration (if required)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Failed TV requests can be retried by finding the correct TVDB listing and mapping requested seasons to official season numbers.
    • Season overrides are saved and applied when sending requests to supported media services.
    • Official TVDB season information is available during season mapping.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved season matching and download-status tracking for series with alternate season numbering.
    • Requests with mapped seasons now dispatch using the appropriate external season numbers.

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fallenbagel added this pull request to stack #3491 September 10, 2026 03:45
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The change adds TVDB season lookup and retry overrides. It stores TVDB and dispatched-season mappings, applies them during external media-server dispatch and availability checks, and adds a UI flow for failed requests.

Changes

Season override workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Override contracts and persistence
seerr-api.yml, server/entity/*, server/migration/*
The API schemas and entities define TVDB and dispatched-season overrides. PostgreSQL and SQLite migrations persist the new columns.
Retry and TVDB lookup
server/routes/request.ts, server/routes/service.ts
Retry requests update or create season aliases and store a TVDB override. The service route returns official TVDB seasons.
External season dispatch
server/utils/seasonHelpers.ts, server/lib/availabilitySync.ts, server/lib/scanners/sonarr/index.ts, server/subscriber/*, server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.test.ts
External integrations use dispatched season numbers. Sonarr payloads and matching logic use mapped values. Tests cover mapped and unmapped seasons.
Season override interface
src/components/RequestCard/*, src/components/RequestList/*, src/components/RequestModal/*, src/i18n/locale/en.json
Failed requests open a search and season-mapping flow. TVDB seasons populate selectable mappings, and successful retries refresh request data.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant SeasonOverrideFlow
  participant TVDBService
  participant RetryRoute
  participant MediaRequestSubscriber
  User->>SeasonOverrideFlow: select a TVDB series
  SeasonOverrideFlow->>TVDBService: fetch official seasons
  TVDBService-->>SeasonOverrideFlow: return season numbers and years
  User->>SeasonOverrideFlow: submit season mappings
  SeasonOverrideFlow->>RetryRoute: submit tvdbId and seasonOverrides
  RetryRoute->>MediaRequestSubscriber: approve and dispatch request
  MediaRequestSubscriber->>MediaRequestSubscriber: map external season numbers
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 44b87

Season overrides now persist and dispatch mapped TVDB season numbers while preserving existing behavior for unmapped seasons. The remaining identified correctness risks have been addressed, so the change is ready to merge.

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Inline comments:
In `@seerr-api.yml`:
- Around line 6778-6787: Update the seasonOverrides item object schema to
require both seasonNumber and dispatchedSeasonNumber, preventing incomplete
override entries while preserving their existing property definitions.

In `@server/routes/request.ts`:
- Around line 673-689: At the retry-boundary season override handling in
server/routes/request.ts lines 673-689, validate that seasonNumber and
dispatchedSeasonNumber are integers and that each source seasonNumber exists in
request.seasons before updating or creating a Season; reject invalid entries
rather than applying aliases. In seerr-api.yml lines 6778-6787, update the
season override item schema to require both seasonNumber and
dispatchedSeasonNumber.

In `@server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.ts`:
- Around line 715-716: Update the dispatched-season override check in
MediaRequestSubscriber so dispatchedSeasonNumber uses a null/undefined check
rather than truthiness, preserving 0 as a valid mapping before the season/year
validation proceeds.

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  • seerr-api.yml
  • server/entity/MediaRequest.ts
  • server/entity/Season.ts
  • server/lib/availabilitySync.ts
  • server/lib/scanners/sonarr/index.ts
  • server/migration/postgres/1789006576131-AddSeasonNumberOverride.ts
  • server/migration/sqlite/1788996522052-AddSeasonNumberOverride.ts
  • server/routes/request.ts
  • server/routes/service.ts
  • server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.test.ts
  • server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.ts
  • server/utils/seasonHelpers.ts
  • src/components/RequestCard/index.tsx
  • src/components/RequestList/RequestItem/index.tsx
  • src/components/RequestModal/SeasonOverrideFlow/index.tsx
  • src/components/RequestModal/SeasonOverrideModal/index.tsx

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A show whose seasons are numbered differently on TheTVDB than on TMDB could not be requested at all,
since the season guard refuses to send a sesaon it cannot vouch for. A failed request can now
confirm the right series and state which TheTVDB season each requested season is. That mapping is
then used everywhere Seerr matches its own seasons against Sonarr, Plex, and Jellyfin/Emby.
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