Good parsing settings for Kodi

advancedsettings.xml

<advancedsettings>
    <video> <!-- Stop XBMC indexing some unwanted common items -->        
        <excludetvshowsfromscan action="prepend">
            <regexp>(?i)sample</regexp> <!-- Greedy, whole path, case insensitive ignore -->
            <regexp>(?i)uTorrentPartFile</regexp>  <!-- Ignore common scrap files -->
            <regexp>[\/\\][sS]pecials?[\/\\]</regexp>
            <regexp>[\/\\][Ee]xtras?[\/\\]</regexp>
            <regexp>(?i)[\. \-_](?:nc)?(?:op|ed|sp|pv)[\. \-_\(\[\d]</regexp>
        </excludetvshowsfromscan>
    </video>

    <tvshowmatching action="prepend"> <!-- remove this if not using smb:// or nfs:// :  [\\/][\\/].*? -->
        <regexp>(?i).*?Season (\d+).*?[\\/].*[\. \-_\[](?:ep)?(\d\d)(?:[_\-\. ]?v\d)?[\. \-_\(\[].*[\]\)].*$</regexp>
        <regexp>(?i).*?[\. \-_\[](?:ep)?(\d\d\d?)(?:[_\-\. ]?v\d)?[\. \-_\(\[].*[\]\)].*$</regexp>
        <regexp>(?i).*?[\. \-_](\d\d?)x(\d\d?)[\. \-_].*?\.(?:mkv|mp4|avi)$</regexp>
        <regexp>(?i).*?S(\d\d)E(\d\d).*</regexp>
        <regexp>(?i).*?[\. \-_](\d\d?)[\. \-_].*?\.(?:mkv|mp4|avi)$</regexp>
    </tvshowmatching>

    <tvshowmatching action="append">
        <!-- I didn't write this block, but it's useful -->
        <regexp>(?i)[/\\](?:s|season)\W?(\d{1,2})\D*[/\\]\D+[\. _\-](\d{1,2})[\. _\-]\D+</regexp>
        <regexp>(?i)[/\\](?:s|season)\W?(\d{1,2})\D*[/\\].*?\D\1(\d\d)(?!.*])</regexp>
        <regexp>(?i)[/\\](?:s|season)\W?(\d{1,2})\D*[/\\](\d{1,2})\W([^/\\]*)</regexp>
        <regexp>(?i)[/\\](?:s|season)\W?(\d{1,2})\D*[/\\].*?\Wep?\.?(\d{1,2})\W([^/\\]*)</regexp>
        <regexp>(?i)[/\\](?:s|season)\W?(\d{1,2})\D*[/\\].*?\W?episode\W?(\d{1,2})\W([^/\\]*)</regexp>
        <regexp>(?i)[/\\](?:s|season)\W?(\d{1,2})\D*[/\\].*?\Wpart\W?(\d{1,2})\W([^/\\]*)</regexp>
        <regexp>(?i)[/\\](?:s|season)\W?(\d{1,2})\D*[/\\].*?\Wchapter\W?(\d{1,2})\W([^/\\]*)</regexp>
        <regexp>(?i)[/\\](?:s|season)\W?(\d{1,2})\D*[/\\].*?\1\W?x\W?(\d{1,2})([^/\\]*)</regexp> >
        <regexp>(?i)[/\\](?:s|season)\W?(\d{1,2})\D*[/\\].*?s0?\1[ex.]{0,2}(\d{1,2})([^/\\]*)</regexp>
        
        <regexp>(?i)[\\/][\\/].*?[\\/].*?Season (\d+).*?[\\/].*?[\. \-_\[(?:ep)](\d\d?)v?\d?.*?\.(?:mkv|mp4|avi)$</regexp><!-- last resort -->
        <regexp>(?i)[\\/][\\/].*?[\\/].*?[\. \-_\[(?:ep)](\d\d?)v?\d?.*?\.(?:mkv|mp4|avi)$</regexp><!-- last resort -->
    </tvshowmatching>
</advancedsettings>