Script to add your own links for thumbnails in xmltv file

[denz 458]

Since my guide data provider does not provide thumbnails as part of the tv guide services I thought why I couldn't do it my self I know it is a big exercise but there are not that many channels so there is probable about 100 or so shows and in couple hours I have managed to snap and resize thumbnails on the internet and save them on the nas.  

 

I don't think it is illegal storing them on my nas since I am only one using them. I will read more about that later. It would be interesting to find out how does schedules direct link to a thumbnail.

 

I managed to find a powershell script on the stackoverflow with a few adjustements to it it now does what I wanted it to. What this script does is that it loads the cvs file and the cvs file has two columns one has a xml tag and the other one a link to the saved thumbnail. Once it finds a match it inserts the link in the original xml file and then this file gets imported into emby. As I am beginner I have still a lot to learn about scripting and I will try to improve the script to be even more automated. This works as intended it is a bit time consuming but the end result is worth it.

 

$c = Import-Csv C:\temp\thumbslinks.csv
Get-ChildItem C:\temp\tvguideinfo.xml | Foreach-Object {
  # Out-String in the next line lets you work with a single string rather than an
  # array of strings.
  $xmldoc = (Get-Content $_.PSPath | Out-String)

  # Loop through your CSV, updating $xmldoc with each pass
  $c | Foreach-Object {
  $xmldoc = $xmldoc -replace ([regex]::Escape($_.title)), ($_.title + " " + $_.link)
  }

  # Write the updated $xmldoc back to the original XML file's path
  $xmldoc | Set-Content $_.PSPath
}

 

A big thanks to stackoverflow website for this script.

 

This is the thumbslinks.cvs it only has two columns called title and link and over the weeks this cvs will grow as I add more and more thumbnails. The title tag is from xmltv now I manually copy this tag to cvs file but I am looking to automating this so that all the title tags gets exported to cvs.   

 

"<title lang=""en"">Married At First Sight</title>","<icon src=""http://192.168.1.25/Pictures/ShowsThumbs/marriedatfirstsight.jpg""/>"
"<title lang=""en"">Good Chef Bad Chef</title>","<icon src=""http://192.168.1.25/Pictures/ShowsThumbs/goodchefbadchef.jpg""/>"
"<title lang=""en"">Seafood Escape With Andrew Ettingshausen</title>","<icon src=""http://192.168.1.25/Pictures/ShowsThumbs/seafoodescape.jpg""/>"
"<title lang=""en"">Extreme Homes</title>","<icon src=""http://192.168.1.25/Pictures/ShowsThumbs/extremehomes.jpg""/>"

 

This is the output it looks much better now.

 

 

Edited March 27, 2017 by denz