MyTVShows Blog

If you have configured MyTVShows to post an update to your Twitter account whenever you mark an episode as seen, you might have noticed that if you marked 3, 4 or even 10 episodes on a row, you would get the same amount of tweets on your timeline, spamming your followers.

This is now fixed and if you mark more than one episode as seen, it will only update your Twitter account if the next episode is from a different show, or if it has passed more than 10 seconds between the last seen episode and the one you just marked as seen.

Today we added a Calendar feed for every show in the database. This allows you to subscribe to each show calendar on Google Calendar or Apple iCal

This is how it will look on your calendar:

Enjoy

You can now navigate through the All Shows page by selecting a letter, and you’ll gett all the shows starting with that letter. This makes it easier to find a show that you’re looking for but don’t know the exact name to perform a search.

This weekend we added a few more features to MyTVShows.

First of all, we changed the menus. The previous version was getting short on space and we needed to add a few more items so now we have a main menu and each item has its own submenus. We think this will make it easier to navigate through out the website and allows us to add some more items as we develop more new features.

Widgets

The widgets are now available to all users. We added the possibility to select how many episodes you want to show and the code updates automatically:

Widgets

Twitter integration

You can now let MyTVShows post updates to your Twitter account whenever you mark an episode as seen. Just fill in your twitter accout details (unfortunatelly Twitter requires us to ask for your password, but we promise we won’t use it for anything else than this).

Twitter account details

And it will look something like this on your Twitter account:

Hope you like it!

We are testing a widget that you can add to your site/blog to show other people wich episodes you have recently watched.

To add this widget to your site/blog, just copy and paste the following code into the HTML of your pages:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mytvshows.org/widgets/recent.php?u=XXXXXX&limit=5"></script>

Just replace the XXXXXX with your MyTVShows username and there you go. If you like, you can also select how many episodes you want to show, just by changing the limit variable.

This is what it will look like:

Update: This feature is no longer Beta, and you can find it on your profile page on MyTVShows.