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don.alcombright
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Wondering if this is possible or best suited for a plugin like Plex currently has. I use an excellent Agent called Common Sense Media which rates movies with no pun intended common sense instead of the MPAA rating which is a joke to say the least.

 

This is probably low hanging fruit, but with little ones it makes sorting content a 1000 times easier for me as things are rated per year essentially, instead of just G, PG, PG-13, R etc. It is literally CSM 3-18.

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legallink
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+1000 from me but I don’t know how you get at the data.

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don.alcombright
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+1000 from me but I don’t know how you get at the data.

 

Common Sense Media has a developer API, although it appears people are having trouble getting them to respond so maybe they are closing that down? I'd think not as its a means to get their tracking out there. I have found it extremely helpful with my kids (age 4), because when I used to do MPAA it filters out a ton unless you open up to PG, but then if you do that it also adds a bunch of crap you wouldn't want a 4 year to see. Obviously you still need to pay attention, but filtering by each year with CSM was awesome.

mastrmind11
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this ^^

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Someone with a Plex forum account want to PM that Pip.longrun guy to see if he is interested in building his plug-in for Emby...?

@@cayars

funwithmedia
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I, too, doubt they'd be closing down their API. For example, Movies Anywhere has integrated Common Sense Media (and Rotten Tomatoes) into their movie details pages:

https://moviesanywhere.com/movie/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom-2018

Granted, Movies Anywhere has tons of clout such that CSM would see it as advantageous to work with them. But Movies Anywhere certainly isn't just scraping the data -- they're gonna be using an API of some sort.

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Someone with a Plex forum account want to PM that Pip.longrun guy to see if he is interested in building his plug-in for Emby...?

@@cayars

Done.

 

Ironically, I think I introduced CSM to Plex. I've always really like what they are doing with ratings.  :)

 

BTW, He is shutting down this plugin as of tomorrow (2/1/2019) on Plex due to their removal of plugins and the manual and time consuming support this will cause having to manually install things.

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As long as he is legally obtaining the feed from CSM, we'd be happy for him to develop for Emby.

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I expressed that to him.

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