In-Progress FR: MB Bookshelf - Comics

[DGMayor 90]

@@Redshirt,

 

I noticed looking at the logs that if Bookshelf detects the file as a comic, it will pull the info from comicvine, however it seems to have a hard time determining it sometimes..

 

would it be possible to search the folder of the comics for a file and get the info from there?   All of my comic folders have a cvinfo. file that contain their ComicVine link..

 

For example, The Dark Horse Comics title "The Massive".  The file contains a single line of text:

 

http://www.comicvine.com/the-massive/4050-49666/

 

 

 

Right now I'm manually running some scripts to extract the cover pages out and things like that, but automation is preferred, obviously!

 

[Redshirt 1487]

Is ComicVine generating that file, or are you? When I did the initial coding I discovered that ComicVine would only save external metadata for .cbz and not for .cbr.

[DGMayor 90]

3rd Party utility puts it there

[lanos 4]

would it be possible to make it so when you go to edit on the server you can put the comicvine ID# under the external ID section?... my comic collection is 100gb plus that would make my editing process a lot quicker

[Redshirt 1487]

Right now the comics parent is just a folder to MediaBrowser, so you can't assign an ID to it. Looking back I think that's a mistake and should really be creating a new entity that holds all the individual comics so users can assign both the needed comicvine id's 

[Luke 42077]

Emby Server 4.9.1.8+ will now have a book reader in the web app for the following formats:

• EPUB
• MOBI
• FB2
• CBZ
• PDF

Please try it out once available and report your experience in the Testing Area of the community:

Thanks !