Export Library

Quick Version:

Need to run the Export Video Library function from a script. There doesn't seem to be a builtin function for it that i can execute over http, and I don't see anything in the xbmc module for it. Any ideas? Thanks!

Longer Version:

I'm developing a script that will export the video library to an xml file and FTP it to a central location where a server component will merge it with some other people's video libraries to give me and some friends a central view of who's got what. I can share the code if this is something people are interested in (once it's done, i'm just getting started!)

If this export function can't be run through code I will use the http query function to grab columns from the movies table, but the xml option seems much nicer - serialization already done for me, standard format, etc. However if you have some other suggestions for how to approach this I'd love to hear about it.

- fandango

currently not avail but should be. trac

This would be a great feature. Hope you do follow through with the idea.

added to svn, see http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/25772. note that this will NOT be in camelot.

Awesome! now that's great service. For the meantime I'll work with the query tool. Thanks.

fandango, hows the progress going with the export script? I would love for you to share it. It would make it a lot easier to share libraries between friends.

Thanks for bringing up the export library builtin function topic. I also looking for that functionality. I want to make a script to export the library on shutdown. I read up a bit on how to write a script but can't quite figure out how to write it. Could you help me out?

I would like to export to separate files, export thumbs, no overwrite and export actorthumbs. Which if I understand correctly is:

EDIT:
exportlibrary(video,true,true,false,true)

(thanks spiff)

music|video = music or video - choose one