nRage - C# / .NET metadata gatherer

ferretallica · 2012-12-22 11:30

I've been using XBMC since 8.1(?). It's great, but I'm something of a perfectionist who likes very fine grained control over everything.

The two big frustrations I've had with XBMC are the interface and the library management. The former I have finally gotten around to tweaking to my liking after learning how to write an XBMC skin, the latter I am only just now getting around to.

I don't expect anyone to want to adopt my approach to library management, however I figured the metadata scraper component might be of interest to some of you and have decided to make it open-source accordingly. It's really nothing complex but hopefully it gives you a head start if you're working on something similar.

Link: https://github.com/ferretallica/nRage

At the moment it supports the TVRage API. I'm currently working on supporting TheTVDB API and adding a common data model. One thing which I won't be adding is thexem.de support. Any OTHER feedback and suggestions are welcome Smile

**da-anda** · 2012-12-22 13:15

You know that there is a new scraper engine for XBMC in the works? It's called Heimdall and is one of this years GSOC projects.
It's in active development atm, even if the forum thread might not be kept up2date: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=134012

ferretallica · 2012-12-22 23:20

(2012-12-22 13:15)da-anda Wrote: You know that there is a new scraper engine for XBMC in the works? It's called Heimdall and is one of this years GSOC projects.
It's in active development atm, even if the forum thread might not be kept up2date: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=134012

No I wasn't aware, thanks for the link.

Still, I'm not just writing a scraper, I'm more looking at a replacement for tools like ember, but one which hooks directly into the XBMC database.
Not the recommended approach sure, and a bit of a niche use case, but that's why I've only shared the scraper part. The rest is almost certainly only of interest to me.
The scraper part itself is not trying to be a generic match for every media source and type under the sun, just TV shows.
Movies I'm not concerned with - they're easy enough to sort manually and XBMC's internal scraping is good enough.
Music will be a separate project to come and not something I plan to integrate with XBMC.

ferretallica · 2013-01-14 08:31

TheTVDB support is complete as of v0.2.5 which is now on GitHub.

**m.savazzi** · 2013-03-14 00:39

Great, I will use it for EmberMediaManager

come on the thread, is evolving Smile

**m.savazzi** · 2013-03-14 17:06

ferretallica,
I downloaded your code and tried to compile it but I got:

Code:

Error    1    The type or namespace name 'TVRage' does not exist in the namespace 'nRage.Contract' (are you missing an assembly reference?)    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    11    22    nRage.Example

Error    2    The type or namespace name 'Idisposable' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    19    37    nRage.Example

Error    3    The type or namespace name 'TvrageClient' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    42    30    nRage.Example

Error    4    'nRage.Example.frmMain.LoadingBar': type used in a using statement must be implicitly convertible to 'System.IDisposable'    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    40    13    nRage.Example

Error    5    The type or namespace name 'SearchResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    52    37    nRage.Example

Warning    6    Unreachable code detected    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    55    21    nRage.Example

Error    7    The type or namespace name 'FullSearchResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    66    37    nRage.Example

Warning    8    Unreachable code detected    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    69    21    nRage.Example

Error    9    The type or namespace name 'EpisodeListResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    82    37    nRage.Example

Warning    10    Unreachable code detected    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    88    21    nRage.Example

Error    11    The type or namespace name 'ShowInfoResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    101    37    nRage.Example

Error    12    The type or namespace name 'FullShowInfoResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    106    37    nRage.Example

Error    13    The type or namespace name 'LastUpdatesResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    111    37    nRage.Example

Error    14    The type or namespace name 'ShowListResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)    K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs    116    37    nRage.Example

can you please help me understand?

Second request: I need the library compiled for .NET 3.5, can you help? is it possible?

therealwakka · 2013-03-17 18:45

I have the same problem!
I think the example is not up to date.

For example there are missing "usings" and the TvRageClient class has a contructor which needs the IRetriever Interface parameter and not a empty contructor.

Would nice if we get an up to date example code how to use this library.

Regards
therealwakka

(2013-03-14 17:06)m.savazzi Wrote: ferretallica,
I downloaded your code and tried to compile it but I got:

Code:

Error 1 The type or namespace name 'TVRage' does not exist in the namespace 'nRage.Contract' (are you missing an assembly reference?) K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 11 22 nRage.Example Error 2 The type or namespace name 'Idisposable' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 19 37 nRage.Example Error 3 The type or namespace name 'TvrageClient' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 42 30 nRage.Example Error 4 'nRage.Example.frmMain.LoadingBar': type used in a using statement must be implicitly convertible to 'System.IDisposable' K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 40 13 nRage.Example Error 5 The type or namespace name 'SearchResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 52 37 nRage.Example Warning 6 Unreachable code detected K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 55 21 nRage.Example Error 7 The type or namespace name 'FullSearchResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 66 37 nRage.Example Warning 8 Unreachable code detected K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 69 21 nRage.Example Error 9 The type or namespace name 'EpisodeListResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 82 37 nRage.Example Warning 10 Unreachable code detected K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 88 21 nRage.Example Error 11 The type or namespace name 'ShowInfoResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 101 37 nRage.Example Error 12 The type or namespace name 'FullShowInfoResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 106 37 nRage.Example Error 13 The type or namespace name 'LastUpdatesResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 111 37 nRage.Example Error 14 The type or namespace name 'ShowListResponse' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) K:\nRage\nRage.Example\frmMain.cs 116 37 nRage.Example

can you please help me understand?

Second request: I need the library compiled for .NET 3.5, can you help? is it possible?

da-anda Team-XBMC Member Posts: 1,385 Joined: Jun 2009 Reputation: 27 Location: germany	2012-12-22 13:15 Post: #2 You know that there is a new scraper engine for XBMC in the works? It's called Heimdall and is one of this years GSOC projects. It's in active development atm, even if the forum thread might not be kept up2date: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=134012 (This post was last modified: 2012-12-22 13:16 by da-anda.)
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ferretallica Junior Member Posts: 5 Joined: Jul 2012 Reputation: 0	2013-01-14 08:31 Post: #4 TheTVDB support is complete as of v0.2.5 which is now on GitHub.
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m.savazzi Moderator Posts: 469 Joined: Mar 2008 Reputation: 10	2013-03-14 00:39 Post: #5 Great, I will use it for EmberMediaManager come on the thread, is evolving If you think I'm useful please use the + button to raise my reputation
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