# Metadata Agent from XBMC plugin

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/metadata-agent-from-xbmc-plugin/6217>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** scanner-agent-dev\
**Created:** [October 30, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/metadata-agent-from-xbmc-plugin/6217 "2010-10-30T02:33:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vidyashankara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@vidyashankara](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vidyashankara)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/metadata-agent-from-xbmc-plugin/6217/1 "2010-10-30T02:33:23Z")

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Is there anyway to add metadata information for Indian movies? There is a website that provides such metadata information and it is currently in use by XBMC. Yamsonline provides metadata information for Hindi, tamil, telugu and malayalam movies. A lot of users will benefit from this. Is there anyway to convert the xml files below to a metadata agent for plex?   
  
  
  
Link is here,  
  
[http://yamsonline.com/1/metadata.yamsonline.com.zip](http://yamsonline.com/1/metadata.yamsonline.com.zip)  
  
  
  
  
  
Please help,  
  
Vidyashankara

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**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/metadata-agent-from-xbmc-plugin/6217/2 "2010-10-30T12:27:48Z")

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It’s absolutely possible with a basic knowledge of Python programming! The resulting agent will be cleaner, easier to maintain, and more powerful than the old scraper. The hardest part is basically decoding the gibberish regular expressions encoded in XML 🙂

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**Author:** ![vidyashankara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@vidyashankara](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vidyashankara)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/metadata-agent-from-xbmc-plugin/6217/3 "2010-10-30T19:45:06Z")

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> It's absolutely possible with a basic knowledge of Python programming! The resulting agent will be cleaner, easier to maintain, and more powerful than the old scraper. The hardest part is basically decoding the gibberish regular expressions encoded in XML :)

  
  
So how do I get started? Do I need to learn python? One of friends knows python. Do we need to know anything about how plex handles this info?

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**Author:** ![hrcolb0](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/hrcolb0/32/380_2.png) [@hrcolb0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hrcolb0)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/metadata-agent-from-xbmc-plugin/6217/4 "2010-10-31T12:03:24Z")

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it helps to learn python. There is also a great beginner’s walkthrough here [http://blah.thingsinjars.com/post/297/writing-a-plex-plugin-part-i/](http://blah.thingsinjars.com/post/297/writing-a-plex-plugin-part-i/). Chekc out this thread: [http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/14945-plugin-tutorial/](http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/14945-plugin-tutorial/). Look at these docs: [http://dev.plexapp.com/docs/](http://dev.plexapp.com/docs/)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/metadata-agent-from-xbmc-plugin/6217/5 "2019-12-20T20:50:55Z")

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