Metadata agent to gather info from local nfo files
Is anybody with more coding capability than me able to code a metadata agent that will gather metadata from local xml-formatted nfo files. For me, the most important element is "title"
I've spend a lot of time perfecting the titles of my movies, for example all James Bond movies that I have is named "James Bond: Die Another Day", "James Bond: Goldfinger" and so on... Currently they are named "Die Another Day", "Goldfinger" by the Media Manager.
there seems to be a “Local Files” bundle. It must be for posters and the like, but it could be a good basis.
also, if you’re trying to access local files, use os.path in Python. It will be easier than “remote” access to file:// (does it work on Mac? I have to say I never tried).
There is already an NFO agent in development. It won’t be officially supported by the team, or bundled with the releases, but it’ll be up on the wiki shortly when the kinks are worked out
Great Looking forward to it as I have nfo proper (at least in my opinion ) nfo file for 400 movies or so and scanning them again wouldn’t really be funny
looking forward to the nfo agent, the original xbmc guys always said it would be a bad idea due to slowness, but i can’t see reading a file can be slower than connecting to imdb or sqlite.
even if the nfo just had the imdb title number, it would be a good way to fix false-positive scrapes, then perhaps the imdb scraper could update the nfo file with the full metadata.
The local agent works as billed, and I found out today that I shouldn't have to do much real work this weekend. Looking forward to 3 days sitting around in my saggy tighty whities watching Plex 9! w00t!
For me the thing is that i'm not native english and so getting data form the imdb link in the nfo file would bring get english description again :)
This is why i would love to see it just taking all the information i already have in my nfo file :)
I just downloaded the bundle and wanted to try out my own python coding skills again
Just a few questions on how i can get started… (I didn’t find any info about writing agents in the dev part of the plex website)
I have to place the .bundle file into ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins, right?
But how can i setup the Media Server to use this agent?
When i add a new section that i want to test with the changes i make I can only choose:
Media Scanner: Plex Movie Scanner
Primary info provider: IMDB or Home Movies
Language: English
That’s all i can add ?!? Is that normal? Where can i choose that it should take the new agent as a scanner? (Or am I totally wrong on how all the scraping works??? Any further readings that you can recommend?)
Furthermore… is there any way i can see console output if i put any print commands into the python code for debugging?
There seems to be a “metadata” object that i need to append all the data that i can collect to, right? Is there any documentation on the properties that i has?
Maybe there are some other developers out there working on the same codebase. Would be nice if we could team up and get this XBMC NFO agent on his feet
Just PM me… i’d be happy to help at least a little bit to make Plex even more kick ass as it already is
I almost have elan’s xbmc nfo agent done. I only need to get the metadata to post to the media manager. I’ll post it when it’s done. You can’t rename movies freely like you’ll be able to with the truely integrated approach, but this will get you back to 8.5 movie names.
Alright, everyone. I’m punting. Here is the updated xbmcnfo.agent. Elan told me that the results need to be passed through the search function call, but I cannot get the search subroutine to run. If anyone else wants to give it a whack, here you go.
The only thing that needs to be done for this is that the results need to be passed to Media Manager. I you check the Log file for the agent, you will see that it is pulling the correct information.
I strongly suggest trialing this on a single movie for whomever is brave enough. You don’t want to bork your entire db because you got cocky.
I would love to help you on this one but still i don’t get where I can choose that Plex is using your new agent…
I placed the .bundle file in ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins, right? I also restarted Plex and the Media Server.
But where should i be able to choose it? Is there anything i have to enable first? I don’t have any dropdown where i can choose it. Not even if i go to “Info Provider Settings”…
Is there any further documentation on how i can get this working?
) nfo file for 400 movies or so and scanning them again wouldn’t really be funny 