XBMC.MyLibrary - Scan any source to the library (Hulu/Netflix/Plugins)

Nice work barney. I'll take a look at the diff

I have been trying to use this program with the Free Cable addon and it works perfectly for the majority of the content, but i have found a couple easily fixable problems and one not-so-easily fixable problem.

I don't know java or any real programming languages but from what i can tell in archiver.java line 945...

skipFolders.add("(Full Episodes|Episodes|Clips|Seasons)");//literal skips

ignores folders with those names in the path when trying to find the series name and for a couple networks under Free Cable the videos are found under a /Videos/ folder and my.library tries to name all the shows Videos. And for whatever reason everything under The CW network is in a folder called "Full Episodes " (with a space at the end) and my.library doesn't catch that exception. So for these i believe you could just add "Videos" and "Full Episodes " to the skipFolders.add thing, right?

This would fix a lot of erroneous show names for Free Cable but not all of them, and the only all-around fix i could think of would be to add a series="" parameter for <subfolder> in the xml file and have people specify the show name. Would this be possible to implement and would you do it if so?

I've been using this script for a while now and absolutely love it! It's made my transition to XBMC and away from my cable company much easier to tolerate on the wife front.
I do have one minor, but annoying issue that I hope there is a fix for or it's just something I'm doing wrong. When the update runs some of the tv show episodes from Hulu+ and FreeCable end up marked as unwatched even though they've been watched and marked as such. Is there something that I can do to eliminate this?

Thanks!

(2012-06-30 19:35)TheCasa Wrote:  I've been using this script for a while now and absolutely love it! It's made my transition to XBMC and away from my cable company much easier to tolerate on the wife front.
I do have one minor, but annoying issue that I hope there is a fix for or it's just something I'm doing wrong. When the update runs some of the tv show episodes from Hulu+ and FreeCable end up marked as unwatched even though they've been watched and marked as such. Is there something that I can do to eliminate this?

Thanks!

Are you using the latest version? The watched status don't get wiped when mine updates. As long as the file name doesnt change, XBMC should keep the watched status.

(2011-05-17 02:05)bradvido88 Wrote:  

ThermoDust Wrote:Is there best practice on how to have the script run to check for new content?

This is some of my XBMC launch code that I am running when my computer starts to load XBMC and the MyLibrary script. As you can see I have it on a loop so that the script checks for new content every 20 min(Normal will be 2 hours). However unless I close XBMC and reload my launch code it doesn't seem to find any new content.

Code:

echo.
echo Starting XBMC MyLibrary Refresh.
start /wait /min "XBMC MyLibrary" "%ProgramFiles%\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -jar "C:\Users\LivingRoom\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\MyLibrary\dist\XBMC.MyLibrary.jar"
echo MyLibrary update complete.
echo Waiting 20 minutes to run MyLibrary again.
choice /d y /t 1200 > nul

Also here is the log file http://thermodust.com/XBMC.MyLibrary.2011-05-16.log - Sorry can't post to PasteBin as the log file was to big or something as IE and Firefox said the page stopped working.

The log shows it running and checking for almost 9 hours and it never found the new content till I quit the XBMCLoader(my batch file) and reloaded it so it ran the MyLibrary again.

From the log, it looks like it's running every 20 minutes as you want. You can probably turn of DEBUG level logging, it's not needed unless we're doing some really detailed debugging. INFO should be fine.
Personally, I run mine on a scheduled task every 1 hour.

What problems are you having with it updating content?

Hi.

bradvido can you please elaborate on what script you run in schedualed task, because if I run this Run-x64, I will get following error:

C:\Windows\system32>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -jar "dist\X
BMC.MyLibrary.jar"
Unable to access jarfile dist\XBMC.MyLibrary.jar

What magic do you do?

Nevermind I created a file myself:


echo.
echo Starting XBMC.
start /wait /b "XBMC" "E:\Program Files\XBMC\XBMC.exe" -exe
echo OK, now I need to take a breather for 60 seconds...
choice /d y /t 60 > nul
echo ok lets start again
start /wait /min "XBMC MyLibrary" "%ProgramFiles%\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -jar "E:\Program Files\XBMC.MyLibrary-1.3.1\XBMC.MyLibrary-1.3.1\dist\XBMC.MyLibrary.jar"
echo MyLibrary update complete.


Then I assigned it with task schedular.. Workes fine

Is there a cap on the number of TV shows this will scrape from my Instant Queue? I have over 50 shows but it stops after it gets to the S's and doesn't even realize that the other shows are there. Is this normal? I'm using the "get all shows and movies from instant queue" search filter posted in the user guide.

EDIT: I edited Config.XML to only scrape the "T" folder and it still only finds about half the videos before calling it quits. I can't figure this out. It was working perfectly fine and now it says that there are no more videos when there are at least 20 more items in "T". I haven't posted the logs only because there was nothing referencing why it had stopped. If you'd like to see it anyway then let me know and I'll post it. I've removed the "Netflix" source and re-added it and I've deleted all the streams and databases and tried doing it from scratch but I still can't get it to work. Thanks!

A quick question - is there any support for the Frodo alphas? I'm getting error messages about not being able to connect to JSON-RPC, but the port is set up in config.xml correctly, and it matches what is set up in XBMC. This same configuration with me worked previously under eden, so i'm wondering if something got changed "under the hood"...

May I make a few feature requests.. that would be having the ability to put the sources in many different directories instead of just one. and adding the ability to have tags for each source for
the upcoming frodo release .. thanks.

@bradvido88. This is great but I do not want to scrape the entire plugin or a section of it. Is there a way we can add a particular show or movie I am interested in to add to the library. This way when I want to watch a movie or show it will show me all the links available for me. Instead of me manually go into each addon and see if there is a link available.

Thanks