@CaptRamius said:
Yea, having a working SeanCody agent be rendered useless by their new UI was disheartening.
Yeah, I understand that MindGeek are slowly redeveloping it after acquisition (think the owners of Men.com, I’d expect similar limitations in the future). A lot of sites still don’t meet Google’s last update and are losing ground to affiliate marketers for their own content in page rankings. I’d expect a few others to make some significant changes over the coming months.
I actually considered setting up a site specifically for gay porn using MTDb, but there is no studio field and is something the developer has said they’ve no intention to implement. I looked at the code a little and realised I had no clue what needed changing to achieve this (I thought it may be as simple as changing ‘Writer’ to ‘Studio’ in a few places, but it seems not to someone as code-inept as I am, lol),
@CaptRamius said:
Then we would establish a set of metadata conventions that are used across both movie database and custom agents (e.g. Naming first name only actors across different sites, like Sean on SC and ACM/CF). Then we could setup some sort of group communication (Slack?) so folks who want to help can choose a site to help with and coordinate work.
Sounds great - I’d definitely help in a concerted effort as I’ve been slowly working on this for a couple of years (on-and-off). Though there’s not enough time to get a decent amount of data up there as I’m going at it now. I’ve only started adding scenes today, I’m still waiting to see if the community editors stick to the official position of TMDB (sometimes they don’t and can get over-zealous, deleting things with no explanation - hence why I’d looked in to using a template site as a specific resource).
I think I’ve ballsed up the naming convention for the ‘scenes’ I’ve added though - by using a colon (eg, Helix Studios: Beach Threesome) the TMDB scraper for Emby isn’t picking up the scene, I’ll try Plex tomorrow (I like Emby for porn as the actors have thumbnails which are useful in a larger library. The intention was to have the studio name there to help when it comes to simply named scenes (eg, Andrew & Jason). Then there is the matter of Staxus names to contend with (sometimes dozens of words long) - how would scripts handle something that’s virtually a short description?
I actually added some Active Duty scenes earlier and chose not to list the actors as I intended to come back and ask for thoughts on the naming conventions to try and get some consistency.
@CaptRamius said:
Yea, having a working SeanCody agent be rendered useless by their new UI was disheartening.
Sounds great - I’d definitely help in a concerted effort as I’ve been slowly working on this for a couple of years (on-and-off). Though there’s not enough time to get a decent amount of data up there as I’m going at it now. I’ve only started adding scenes today, I’m still waiting to see if the community editors stick to the official position of TMDB (sometimes they don’t and can get over-zealous, deleting things with no explanation - hence why I’d looked in to using a template site as a specific resource).
I think I’ve ballsed up the naming convention for the ‘scenes’ I’ve added though - by using a colon (eg, Helix Studios: Beach Threesome) the TMDB scraper for Emby isn’t picking up the scene, I’ll try Plex tomorrow (I like Emby for porn as the actors have thumbnails which are useful in a larger library.
Yea, colons probably won’t work. I’d guess it needs to be something like a dash, I’ll rummage around in the plugin and the API docs on The Movie DB and see what I can find out.
The intention was to have the studio name there to help when it comes to simply named scenes (eg, Andrew & Jason). Then there is the matter of Staxus names to contend with (sometimes dozens of words long) - how would scripts handle something that’s virtually a short description?
As for Staxus we may just have to clip it to whatever the max search length is for the Movie DB API.
I actually added some Active Duty scenes earlier and chose not to list the actors as I intended to come back and ask for thoughts on the naming conventions to try and get some consistency.
Any suggestions on where to host the naming conventions doc? Should it be in the current git repo or some document host like Google Docs?
@CaptRamius said:
Yea, colons probably won’t work. I’d guess it needs to be something like a dash, I’ll rummage around in the plugin and the API docs on The Movie DB and see what I can find out.
Yeah, I’ve renamed and run a test (on Emby which is irrelevant in a sense), I suspect that their scraper isn’t providing access to the adult content (I remember having to allow this in XMBC once upon a time, though there’s no option for this in Emby). I’ll check this out with Plex tomorrow and see what works.
Any suggestions on where to host the naming conventions doc? Should it be in the current git repo or some document host like Google Docs?
I can think of two uses - the first being general posting; provide the info on Git (in summarised wiki styling??). If there’s enough people willing to work on getting content up as a concerted effort then your suggestion of slack may prove useful as people can then use it to more easily hash out decisions and conventions through conversation?
As an aside, if there is anyone out there who knows enough about PHP coding et al who would be willing to see if they can make MTDB have a studio category (perhaps as simple as finding all the places needed to rename an existing field that isn’t required), I’d be happy to buy the script and provide the hosting on a VPS w/backup (I suspect most decent VPS’ should be sufficient for the amount of requests I’d expect from a media scraper for this content). Out of curiosity, is there any idea as to how many people have downloaded the agent in the last week?
@CaptRamius said:
Yea, colons probably won’t work. I’d guess it needs to be something like a dash, I’ll rummage around in the plugin and the API docs on The Movie DB and see what I can find out.
Yeah, I’ve renamed and run a test (on Emby which is irrelevant in a sense), I suspect that their scraper isn’t providing access to the adult content (I remember having to allow this in XMBC once upon a time, though there’s no option for this in Emby). I’ll check this out with Plex tomorrow and see what works.
Any suggestions on where to host the naming conventions doc? Should it be in the current git repo or some document host like Google Docs?
I can think of two uses - the first being general posting; provide the info on Git (in summarised wiki styling??). If there’s enough people willing to work on getting content up as a concerted effort then your suggestion of slack may prove useful as people can then use it to more easily hash out decisions and conventions through conversation?
I’ll create a Slack setup tomorrow for this.
As an aside, if there is anyone out there who knows enough about PHP coding et al who would be willing to see if they can make MTDB have a studio category (perhaps as simple as finding all the places needed to rename an existing field that isn’t required), I’d be happy to buy the script and provide the hosting on a VPS w/backup (I suspect most decent VPS’ should be sufficient for the amount of requests I’d expect from a media scraper for this content). Out of curiosity, is there any idea as to how many people have downloaded the agent in the last week?
Can’t tell how many downloads (at least I couldn’t find it in the stats), but there where 28 unique visitors, mostly from these forums, github search, and gay-lounge.
@valashua I learned how to code with PHP. The problem is if it is a large web app it could take some time to find the code and figure out how it works. I use notepad++ it allows for me to search every file in all folders for the code I’m looking for. If you want to use the web app. It would also be recommended to develop a bot to input all the data from various sites since it would take a very long time by hand. Since it uses MySQL, PHP code could be quickly made to harvest the data, however PHP is very slow for this type of thing and could still take weeks to harvest the data.
If someone can create a site I am happy to contribute daily to build up a massive database … Trying to self teach myself but its very slow progress so far.
Shouldn’t this thread be merged with [Release][Adult] Gay Metadata Agent seems like two parallel efforts. AEBN’s gay movie section has metadata. Also please remember to include Genre in the metadata. Bears, Fetish, Twink, Hunk, Muscle, Military, etc…
@bknfla@gmail.com said:
Shouldn’t this thread be merged with [Release][Adult] Gay Metadata Agent seems like two parallel efforts. AEBN’s gay movie section has metadata. Also please remember to include Genre in the metadata. Bears, Fetish, Twink, Hunk, Muscle, Military, etc…
The effort in this thread was started to pull in metadata for sites that are scene based (AEBN tests to be based on DVD releases.) and aren’t necessarily on AEBN. I believe someone added AEBN as a backup contributer to our plugin, but the primary source is still directly from the studios.
There is a thread which speaks to AdultDVEmpire.com I wonder if that script will work on GayDVDEmpire with just a couple of tweaks? It would be great to include Genre please.
I think trying to pull metadata from websites like seancody.com, helixstudios.net and men.com etc will continue to have issues as each website will change things frequently when they learn that this is happening. Think it be better to create a database site like iafd.com but make it open for users to add content freely like themoviedb.org and thetvdb.com. When this is running can then create an plex agent (or emby, xbmc etc) to scrape metadata easily. I for one will be a major contributor to adding content to the database. Also have very limited understanding to php/sql so can’t do it on my own but if anyone has skill sets it would be amazing if we could all team up to create one large project. If you know of online application that can be used to manage the project let me know.
I did about 100 plus scenes and movies (80% were scenes) on the themoviedb.org but they don’t like the scenes so they all deleted and only kept the full movies. Think i rather save my time and wait for a new site … really keen for anyone that can help in getting it all up and running please let me know.
@chrisdelluci said:
I did about 100 plus scenes and movies (80% were scenes) on the themoviedb.org but they don’t like the scenes so they all deleted and only kept the full movies. Think i rather save my time and wait for a new site … really keen for anyone that can help in getting it all up and running please let me know.
Like I’ve mentioned before. I have the code for what is needed I just don’t have the server power or bandwidth. I need a dedicated server to be hosted and I can set up a bot that gets all of the information automatically no need to input data.
I just posted over on the GitHub page, Issue section, for this project. I’ll post here as well as an FYI.
Issue:
Titles appearing with prefix characters not associated with title name
Description:
I’m using the agents on Plex, I have the latest server version. Look ups are occurring but the matched title information is returning prefix characters in the title name.
Example of existing file name:
Str8 to Gay 2
Matched return of Title appears as:
D%3A%5CTest%5CStr8 To Gay 2
This is occurring on all my Gay-P-videos that I am attempting to match in Plex. Thoughts?
I’d be interested in helping as well. I’ve developed in other languages (C# mainly) and not familiar with Python at all, but I’m trying to figure it out… getting others involved would be awesome.
Just came across this thread today. I had been looking for an agent for Gay themed films as well. I have included and reviewed the agent provided on GitHub and have it installed. I am not familiar with PHP but was considering trying my hand at it in my spare time. Has anyone who has worked on this looked at the gayeroticvideoindex.com to pull data? I have been using it to manually update content and it appears to be thorough for both scenes and full titles. For anyone on the thread that has done some work on the agent already, I thought it would be helpful to mention that site.
So, there’s an issue for this agent on Git regarding actor names. Plex changed the metadata last year. role.actor has to be replaced with role.name … but I don’t know enough about Git to do anything with it on the page there.
Thanks for trying. I’m afraid I don’t know enough about Git Hub OR Python.
You said you “don’t know enough about Git to do anything with it on the page there.” - Can you do anything with it somewhere else? If so, please share. Thanks!
@phpatnode said:
Thanks for trying. I’m afraid I don’t know enough about Git Hub OR Python.
You said you “don’t know enough about Git to do anything with it on the page there.” - Can you do anything with it somewhere else? If so, please share. Thanks!
Well, it’s really just a matter of editing the appropriate files and replacing any reference to role.actor with role.name
I forget which files right off hand, but I will take a look tomorrow when I have some free time.
