2011-03-30, 21:41
I am making a multiplayer 3D media browser that launches moves, games, and anything else. It is designed to utilize the player's local XBMC library, if it exists, to find artwork images and information about media items.
I would like to add data scrapers so that my program can find URLs to artwork and stuff automatically. I want it to be able to use the exact same XML scrapers that XBMC uses.
This is important for the users of my program who do NOT have an established media library due to XBMC.
My program already has libcurl implemented and uses it to download the artwork. I am not a very experienced programmer, and figuring out where to start on these types of things seems to be the biggest draw back from being inexperienced.
I've been looking at the source code on github for addon/scrapers.cpp, and it is pretty intimidating.
Do you guys have any general suggestions on how I should go about making my program use XBMC scrapers?
I know it's not going to be easy, but not having to manually specify the artwork for EVERY media item is going to make my program a lot more enjoyable.
I'm currently working on the 2nd version of it, but the SINGLEPLAYER-ONLY beta 1 version is available at http://www.smarcade.net
I would like to add data scrapers so that my program can find URLs to artwork and stuff automatically. I want it to be able to use the exact same XML scrapers that XBMC uses.
This is important for the users of my program who do NOT have an established media library due to XBMC.
My program already has libcurl implemented and uses it to download the artwork. I am not a very experienced programmer, and figuring out where to start on these types of things seems to be the biggest draw back from being inexperienced.
I've been looking at the source code on github for addon/scrapers.cpp, and it is pretty intimidating.
Do you guys have any general suggestions on how I should go about making my program use XBMC scrapers?
I know it's not going to be easy, but not having to manually specify the artwork for EVERY media item is going to make my program a lot more enjoyable.
I'm currently working on the 2nd version of it, but the SINGLEPLAYER-ONLY beta 1 version is available at http://www.smarcade.net