Download Actor thumbnails and use in nfo

[fogpuppy 1]

Does anyone know how to get Emby to pre-download all the actor thumbnails and set the nfo to use those so actor thumbnails work when Emby is not connected to the internet.  I realize for efficiency that they would need to be centrally managed so we don't have 10's (100'S) of copies of the same actor thumbnail but I might even be able to live with multiple copies (the thumbnails are not that big on a "media" scale").  Here's a snippet of the nfo file that shows what i'm talking about:

 <actor>
    <name>Benicio del Toro</name>
    <role>Jack Jordan</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <thumb>https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/s1EVFX10YJZTcvkAAq4AcPniS3t.jpg</thumb>
  </actor>

Ideally this might look like 

<actor>
    <name>Benicio del Toro</name>
    <role>Jack Jordan</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <thumb>/var/lib/emby/metadata/actors/t/p/original/s1EVFX10YJZTcvkAAq4AcPniS3t.jpg</thumb>
  </actor>

of if stored with the media in an actors subdirectory using a relative path name like

 <actor>
    <name>Benicio del Toro</name>
    <role>Jack Jordan</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <thumb>./actors/s1EVFX10YJZTcvkAAq4AcPniS3t.jpg</thumb>
  </actor>

[Luke 42085]

Hi, we don't currently have an option for this because it hits the metadata providers pretty hard downloading a large number of images all at once.

[fogpuppy 1]

Ok I can see wanting to limit the traffic a bit as a good "citizen".   However, there's a lot of overlap on actors across movies so if the download centralized them into a single pool of actors that would cut the load by a significant factor.  Heck Kevin Bacon alone would make a big dent . If you then further did this in the background in some "throttled" way .....

I know a lot of my requests/questioms may be a little out of left field but our usage is a kiosk-style usage where there is no consistent internet connection (in fact non-connected is the norm except during updates of systems and/or media).  This is something Emby at supports reasonably well which is why we moved to it from Plex.   

[Luke 42085]

If we can find a way to limit it without complaints from the metadata providers then it's always possible to revisit in the future.