[tom66]

I'm writing an addon which will scrap various thumbnails from a popular website. I don't want to overload the site so I only want to scrape the files once or again if they go missing/are deleted.

I can download them to a file e.g. "mypluginname_uniqueid_small.jpg" and stuff it in some private directory but it seems like a bodge.

Is there any way to utilise XBMC's thumbnail cache easily with these filenames from Python? I can compute the unique id and ask to load the filename, then if I get a "file not found in cache" error, I can download the file. If the thumb file exists, I need to be able to pass it on to ListView to use. And, I need to be able to store new files in the cache.

I've looked over the API docs and can't see how it's done.

Thanks

[Bstrdsmkr]

Xbmc automatically caches images displayed for 24hrs. If you want them cached longer than that, you'll have to do it yourself

[Milhouse]

I wouldn't rely on the cached version - it can be resized/resampled and the quality reduced (eg. 1080 fanart resized to 720, or 1000x1500 posters resized to 256x384), so my advice would be to download the original file to a suitable local filename, then scrape in the local file which will be cached and, on some (lower powered) devices, resized/resampled as per the individual client device requirements.

Basically, your "bodge" is likely to result in better quality artwork than relying on the texture cache.