2005-11-13, 16:35
hi guys,
with all the greatness of xbmc, i was surprised to see that there hasn't yet been a tv version of imdb lookup - everyone knows how great it is to be able to press 'info' and read all about the film you're about to watch. wouldn't it be great if you could do that on a tv show you've got? just click 'info' and it uses tv.com to find out the rating it got, the storyline, and even a picture if one's available. i don't know much about python, howevere seeing how complex some of the other scripts are, i don't believe this one could be that hard -isn't it similar to imdb - untill it comes to the actual episode, finding the series will be fine, then couldn't there be a list of the episodes and you select which one you want to be downloaded?
i've just had another look, and say for family guy, if your file was named:
family guy - 1x01 - death has a shadow.avi
first it looks up 'family guy' on tv.com, bringing up the first search result 'http://www.tv.com/family-guy/show/348/su...amily+guy'.
then it goes to the episode guide 'http://www.tv.com/family-guy/show/348/ep...uide.html' which as you can see, all that has changed is after "348/" there is now "episode_guide.html" so it is easy enough for the script to go to the first search result and replace anything afet the last "slash" with "episode_guide.html".
next comes the harder part - getting the right episode. i'm not sure how this would be implemented, that is up to the develepor the first episode has the following page: http://www.tv.com/family-....ry.html as you see, on this page it has: an image, rating, summary of episode, air date, cast etc. virtually the same as imdb.
please someone make this script, i will love you.
edit: just found it is possible as it's implemented on a pc media player... http://forums.gbpvr.com/showthread.php?p=43385
with all the greatness of xbmc, i was surprised to see that there hasn't yet been a tv version of imdb lookup - everyone knows how great it is to be able to press 'info' and read all about the film you're about to watch. wouldn't it be great if you could do that on a tv show you've got? just click 'info' and it uses tv.com to find out the rating it got, the storyline, and even a picture if one's available. i don't know much about python, howevere seeing how complex some of the other scripts are, i don't believe this one could be that hard -isn't it similar to imdb - untill it comes to the actual episode, finding the series will be fine, then couldn't there be a list of the episodes and you select which one you want to be downloaded?
i've just had another look, and say for family guy, if your file was named:
family guy - 1x01 - death has a shadow.avi
first it looks up 'family guy' on tv.com, bringing up the first search result 'http://www.tv.com/family-guy/show/348/su...amily+guy'.
then it goes to the episode guide 'http://www.tv.com/family-guy/show/348/ep...uide.html' which as you can see, all that has changed is after "348/" there is now "episode_guide.html" so it is easy enough for the script to go to the first search result and replace anything afet the last "slash" with "episode_guide.html".
next comes the harder part - getting the right episode. i'm not sure how this would be implemented, that is up to the develepor the first episode has the following page: http://www.tv.com/family-....ry.html as you see, on this page it has: an image, rating, summary of episode, air date, cast etc. virtually the same as imdb.
please someone make this script, i will love you.
edit: just found it is possible as it's implemented on a pc media player... http://forums.gbpvr.com/showthread.php?p=43385