Plugin: AutoTag

[crusher11 1109]

Question about the scheduler.

Say I have the Trakt trending movies tagged as Spotlight, but then I schedule AutoTag to tag my horror movies as Spotlight in October and my noir movies as Spotlight in November. Will the Trending movies still get mixed in with that? It seems like they will. Might make sense to have a “remove all other rules” option or something? A way to have a fallback if no schedule is applied, but not have that fallback get mixed in with a scheduled list.

[soderlund91 57]

9 hours ago, crusher11 said:

Well, for example, all TV shows where the title contains "law & order."

Tagging by genre, director, actor, etc. as well. It's November? Spotlight film noir. David Lynch died? Spotlight films he directed. Robert Redford died? Spotlight films he starred in.

Release date, too. Films with the genre "film noir" released between 1940 and 1950, to filter out neo-noir. Films celebrating their 100th anniversary this year. 

There's so much metadata already on the server, it just feels silly that I have to manually curate lists elsewhere. I do love the Trakt integration for Trending and the like though. 

Can you clarify how I get an API key? 

 

You can already Spotlight a collection, but if I could use this to dynamically tag its contents I don't need to go reconfigure the Spotlight once I'm done spotlighting that collection and want to go back to tags. 

API key: At the top of the plugin-page you have a "Help" button, there you have instructions and links how to obtain the API key. 
For Trakt, just give it a name and leave everything blank. For the redirect you have to put something in, just type "http://localhost"

It would be awesome to have all this functionality, but it's a lot of work and time that i dont have. And purpose of this plugin is to use list from MDBList that have all of these options avalibale. Create your own list at MDBList (there is tons of filtering options!) and just put the URL into AutoTag. 
 

4 hours ago, crusher11 said:

Question about the scheduler.

Say I have the Trakt trending movies tagged as Spotlight, but then I schedule AutoTag to tag my horror movies as Spotlight in October and my noir movies as Spotlight in November. Will the Trending movies still get mixed in with that? It seems like they will. Might make sense to have a “remove all other rules” option or something? A way to have a fallback if no schedule is applied, but not have that fallback get mixed in with a scheduled list.

If you have two entries using the same name/tag, they will all get the same tag end get "mixed". 
If you give two entries same collection name, i'm not sure what will happen to be honest.. 

I see your point, and it's not a bad idéa. Maybe somwhere down the road i'll look into it. At the moment there are more urgent things to do.
 

At the end you could quite easily set this up yourself if you put a little effort into sorting the tags/scheduels. 
For ex have a "standard" spotligt active during jan-sep and nov-dec. During october you have your "horror spotlight". 
And if David Lych dies, create a new spotligt with his movies, and just disable the standard spotligt. 

I might look into the option to separate the name of each entry and the tag-name for better overview in the UI. This will enable to have two separate entries that both tag "spotligt" but in the UI you could name them "horror spotlight" and standard spotlight". 

[crusher11 1109]

3 minutes ago, soderlund91 said:

It would be awesome to have all this functionality, but it's a lot of work and time that i dont have. And purpose of this plugin is to use list from MDBList that have all of these options avalibale. Create your own list at MDBList (there is tons of filtering options!) and just put the URL into AutoTag. 

Well, from what was said upthread it sounds like MDBList costs a bit of money, and then the time to go through and curate it all...which, as I said, seems pointless when Emby already has the information I'm trying to use. I have a lot of my own subgenres that I've added, on top of everything Emby has already scraped, and things like the date media was added to my server are obviously not going to be available to an external source.

6 minutes ago, soderlund91 said:

At the end you could quite easily set this up yourself if you put a little effort into sorting the tags/scheduels. 
For ex have a "standard" spotligt active during jan-sep and nov-dec. During october you have your "horror spotlight". 

If the horror spotlight is all I have for scheduled, sure, but once you start adding more scheduled spotlights the scheduling for the fallback becomes pretty unwieldy. Oscars spotlight early in the year, maybe birthday spotlights for some of my favorite actors and directors, horror in October, noir in November, Christmas/New Year's...

But then, if there's no way to tag things using the Emby metadata, I'm not sure how many of those are even feasible.

9 minutes ago, soderlund91 said:

I might look into the option to separate the name of each entry and the tag-name for better overview in the UI.

Yeah, I was going to bring that up too. Everything is just labeled as “spotlight” at the moment so it's basically impossible to know what's what.