Plugin: Home Screen Companion

[crusher11 1140]

17 minutes ago, Aleas said:

Wondering how hard would it be to add in support for IMDB lists?

IMDB's API costs tens of thousands of dollars, I believe.

[soderlund 107]

5 hours ago, crusher11 said:

A suggestion: if a scheduled rule with the priority override set returns zero results, nothing is tagged. It would be preferable—for my use case, at least—if it treated the schedule as inactive in that situation.

Agree, that would be the best way to handle that. I’ll see what i can do. 

36 minutes ago, Aleas said:

Wondering how hard would it be to add in support for IMDB lists?  I've been having issues with trakt.tv lately where it won't even load the webpage for me anymore.

Hard. Very hard… 

The API for IMDB is EXPENSIVE and not something any individual want to pay. A quick google search says around $150,000 per year… So the alternative is to scrape their website, but that is breaking ther Terms of service. Even so, I’m not willing to put down the time and effort to create that function. 

What you could do if you are having trouble with Trakt itself, is to use MDBList. MDBList can fetch list from trakt directly within its own filters. Search the public lists and you will probably find someone who has already created one that is available.

 

I’m curently working on some bug fixes and a new cleanup function (remove tags and collections on the server). I’m expecting to finish this update within a day or two. After this I’m gonna look into adding support for more external sources. 

Edited 10 hours ago by soderlund

[shinedou 8]

1 hour ago, soderlund said:

The API for IMDB is EXPENSIVE and not something any individual want to pay. A quick google search says around $150,000 per year… So the alternative is to scrape their website, but that is breaking ther Terms of service. Even so, I’m not willing to put down the time and effort to create that function. 

 

Bummer, because that's a great suggestion. I'm guessing then since both apps, Sonarr and Radarr, can import IMDB watchlists that they are doing it the unauthorized way. I doubt they are paying for the API.

 

[Neminem 1619]

Sonarr and Radarr are using TMDB + scraping other DB's to do this with movies/shows that have IMDB id.

They have there own metadata end point, that users use.

Its a strange combo the a company like Emby can be sued for letting something like this live.

I guess if this plugin can never be included in the plugin section, if it ever use this methode.

@soderlundplease keep this in minde.

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Neminem

[shinedou 8]

2 minutes ago, Neminem said:

Sonarr and Radarr are using TMDB + scraping other DB's to do this with movies/shows that have IMDB id.

Yeah, I can see that they use their own sources for the metadata but both apps do allow the import of IMDB watchlists under settings>import lists. This is an automated import (every 12 hours, I think). https://wiki.servarr.com/radarr/supported#imdblistimport

 

4 minutes ago, Neminem said:

Its a strange combo the a company like Emby can be sued for letting something like this live.

Thinking about it, I can see now how this method would be an issue for Emby

[Aleas 34]

Bummer, but I totally get it.

Moved over to MDBList, working great so far.

Anyhow keep up the great work!

Edited 7 hours ago by Aleas

[soderlund 107]

Yeah I can tell you IMDB is not gonna be an option for me to add to this plugin. 

MDBList is freaking awesome and support a lot of filtering and creation of list. Yes, it cost some money if you want the whole experience, but in regards what you get its well worth it in my opinion. 
I beleve you might be able to import your IMDB list aswell? 

There might be some other workarounds like Sonarr etc does it, to use a 3rd party that scrapes IMDB and then post it publicly. But that is a bit of a gray area.. 
For now, MDBList covers a lot of functionality and i will look into adding TMDB and other open sources. If you have any request pls let me know (I'm only using MDBList myself)