From ea1ed86d7a122fb48fa52c0391d29c53c734b315 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: monestri <63887617+monestri@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 01:41:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] alpharatio: disable season only search. Resolves #8244

---
 src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/AlphaRatio.cs | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/AlphaRatio.cs b/src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/AlphaRatio.cs
index b1a4d85e4..38e4d911c 100644
--- a/src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/AlphaRatio.cs
+++ b/src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/AlphaRatio.cs
@@ -58,7 +58,15 @@ namespace Jackett.Common.Indexers
             AddCategoryMapping(30, TorznabCatType.Other, "Misc");
         }
 
-        // Alpharatio can't handle dots in the searchstr
-        protected override string GetSearchTerm(TorznabQuery query) => query.GetQueryString().Replace(".", " ");
+        protected override string GetSearchTerm(TorznabQuery query)
+        {
+            // Ignore season search without episode. Alpharatio doesn't support it.
+            var searchTerm = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(query.Episode)
+                ? query.SanitizedSearchTerm
+                : query.GetQueryString();
+
+            // Alpharatio can't handle dots in the searchstr
+            return searchTerm.Replace(".", " ");
+        }
     }
 }