Added: Option to omit year from indexer searches when searching by title. Also added option to force a movie search by title instead of imdb id. Fixes #1912

src/NzbDrone.Core/Indexers/Newznab/NewznabRequestGenerator.cs

@@ -52,24 +52,29 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Core.Indexers.Newznab
         {
             var pageableRequests = new IndexerPageableRequestChain();
 
-            if (SupportsMovieSearch && searchCriteria.Movie.ImdbId.IsNotNullOrWhiteSpace())
+            if (!Settings.SearchByTitle && SupportsMovieSearch && searchCriteria.Movie.ImdbId.IsNotNullOrWhiteSpace())
             {
                 pageableRequests.Add(GetPagedRequests(MaxPages, Settings.Categories, "movie", $"&imdbid={searchCriteria.Movie.ImdbId.Substring(2)}"));
             }
             else
             {
-                var searchTitle = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode(Parser.Parser.ReplaceGermanUmlauts(Parser.Parser.NormalizeTitle(searchCriteria.Movie.Title)));
                 var altTitles = searchCriteria.Movie.AlternativeTitles.Take(5).Select(t => t.Title).ToList();
+                altTitles.Add(searchCriteria.Movie.Title);
 
-                var realMaxPages = (int)MaxPages / (altTitles.Count() + 1);
+                var realMaxPages = (int)MaxPages / (altTitles.Count());
 
-                pageableRequests.Add(GetPagedRequests(MaxPages - (altTitles.Count() * realMaxPages), Settings.Categories, "search", $"&q={searchTitle}%20{searchCriteria.Movie.Year}"));
+                //pageableRequests.Add(GetPagedRequests(MaxPages - (altTitles.Count() * realMaxPages), Settings.Categories, "search", $"&q={searchTitle}%20{searchCriteria.Movie.Year}"));
 
                 //Also use alt titles for searching.
                 foreach (String altTitle in altTitles)
                 {
                     var searchAltTitle = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode(Parser.Parser.ReplaceGermanUmlauts(Parser.Parser.NormalizeTitle(altTitle)));
-                    pageableRequests.Add(GetPagedRequests(realMaxPages, Settings.Categories, "search", $"&q={searchAltTitle}%20{searchCriteria.Movie.Year}"));
+                    var queryString = $"&q={searchAltTitle}";
+                    if (!Settings.RemoveYear)
+                    {
+                        queryString += $"%20{searchCriteria.Movie.Year}";
+                    }
+                    pageableRequests.Add(GetPagedRequests(realMaxPages, Settings.Categories, "search", queryString));
                 }
             }
 

src/NzbDrone.Core/Indexers/Newznab/NewznabSettings.cs

@@ -79,7 +79,15 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Core.Indexers.Newznab
         [FieldDefinition(4, Label = "Additional Parameters", HelpText = "Additional Newznab parameters", Advanced = true)]
         public string AdditionalParameters { get; set; }
 
-        // Field 5 is used by TorznabSettings MinimumSeeders
+        [FieldDefinition(5, Label = "Remove year from search string",
+            HelpText = "Should Radarr remove the year after the title when searching this indexer?", Advanced = true, Type = FieldType.Checkbox)]
+        public bool RemoveYear { get; set; }
+
+        [FieldDefinition(6, Label = "Search by Title",
+            HelpText = "By default, Radarr will try to search by IMDB ID if your indexer supports that. However, some indexers are not very good at tagging their releases correctly, so you can force Radarr to search that indexer by title instead.",
+            Advanced = true, Type = FieldType.Checkbox)]
+        public bool SearchByTitle { get; set; }
+        // Field 7 is used by TorznabSettings MinimumSeeders
         // If you need to add another field here, update TorznabSettings as well and this comment
 
         public virtual NzbDroneValidationResult Validate()

src/NzbDrone.Core/Indexers/Torznab/TorznabSettings.cs

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Core.Indexers.Torznab
             MinimumSeeders = IndexerDefaults.MINIMUM_SEEDERS;
         }
 
-        [FieldDefinition(5, Type = FieldType.Textbox, Label = "Minimum Seeders", HelpText = "Minimum number of seeders required.", Advanced = true)]
+        [FieldDefinition(7, Type = FieldType.Textbox, Label = "Minimum Seeders", HelpText = "Minimum number of seeders required.", Advanced = true)]
         public int MinimumSeeders { get; set; }
 
         public override NzbDroneValidationResult Validate()