Add bulk actor images

[lalajee 2]

Hi, Is it possible to add bulk images of the actors from a local machine.

I install web server and put all my images into that web server then created a powershell script to go throught folder and create a xml file with all actors and location for the actors

I have try following but that didnt work.

$p = "C:\ESD\xampp\htdocs\img" #Read-Host "Enter Path"

$t="<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes'?>
       <movie>
        <title>File</title>
"

Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $p  |
    ForEach-Object {
        
        $name = $_.BaseName
        $image = $_.Name -replace ' ', '%20'

        $t += "<actor><name>$name</name><type>Actor</type>
                <thumb>http://192.168.1.208/img/$image</thumb>
                </actor>`n"
        $image=""
    }

$t +="`n</movie>"

New-Item -Path "C:\ESD" -Name "File.nfo" -Type "file" -Value $t -Force

Is they any other way I can do this. All my actors are not on imdb or any other api site

 

[Carlo 4330]

I'm not sure I follow what you are trying to accomplish.  Emby Server is going to want to download the images itself.

[Happy2Play 8282]

You can use the People backup plugin to restore local images to people that are already in the library.db.

[lalajee 2]

1 hour ago, Happy2Play said:

You can use the People backup plugin to restore local images to people that are already in the library.db.

How do i use this plugin. I try it and it didnt work

[Happy2Play 8282]

All it does is push the image by name back into the name in the database.  If the person is not in the database then it will not do anything.  

So the question would be what did not work?

[lalajee 2]

32 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

All it does is push the image by name back into the name in the database.  If the person is not in the database then it will not do anything.  

So the question would be what did not work?

If you have images with name it doesnt work.

 

However if you have folder a-z and then name of the actor as folder in alphabet, inside the actor folder you need to have image name as poster

e.g.

Actor name James Kelly

So the folders will look like this

J-> James Kelly -> poster.jpg

 

 

Once I made this change all of the actors images appear in my server. 

 

Edited July 10, 2020 by lalajee

[Happy2Play 8282]

Okay yes Mediabrowser/Emby changed to the people A-Z folders years ago.  Not a coder but would assume the specific structure is being look for.

But glad you got it working.