Metadata plugin for coming books

[Kiniu 22]

Hello everyone. Does anyone knows a plug-in that contains metadata for comic books for example Marvel or DC comics? I tried to look in the Emby plug-in catalogue, but there is no such thing there. I would appreciate any tips thank you. 

[Luke 42083]

Hi, does OpenLIbrary have that? We have a plugin for that.

[Kiniu 22]

Hi Luke. Unfortunately it doesnt. Not at all. Comic-books not; as well as regular book not….  I have this plugin installed for a long time and to be ohnest doesn’t do much for me. Maybe I have a bug or something(?) I don’t know but it doesn’t work on my server. 

[Luke 42083]

I mean did you check the openlibrary website to see if they have metadata for your content?

[Kiniu 22]

Oh. I didn’t. I shall do that. It never came to my mind to do that. Thank u for a tip. 

[Luke 42083]

On 2/19/2026 at 1:21 AM, Kiniu said:

Oh. I didn’t. I shall do that. It never came to my mind to do that. Thank u for a tip. 

They may not even have anything, but it's a good way to find out what to expect.  We may need to find another source for this content.

[Kiniu 22]

I visited open library website and unfortunately the information about comics was very little. 
I think it would be best to have a dedicated source for comicbooks, i tried to look on the net but no luck, to be honest I don’t really sure what to look for I just look for a plugin but maybe this can be hidden under different name…. 

[howllor 28]

There is external software to tag comics with metadata, like this https://github.com/comictagger/comictagger

However, I do not know how these tags are stored and if emby reads them. I do not have a comics library myself so I can't test it either.

[howllor 28]

Oh and comictagger is using the comic vine API, looks like it could be a decent metadata source for emby if anyone wanted to write a plugin for it.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/api/

[Kiniu 22]

I wish to do that but o have no idea how…. But it is very good idea. 

[Kiniu 22]

10 hours ago, howllor said:

There is external software to tag comics with metadata, like this https://github.com/comictagger/comictagger

However, I do not know how these tags are stored and if emby reads them. I do not have a comics library myself so I can't test it either.

but would you be so kind and provide instructions  ( like for dummies ) how to "install" this on Emby? then i can tested i have quite a bit of comics books there.