I've made a little tool today to help manually create nfo files.
linky (Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 required)
The exe file is in the bin subfolder. yeah, i've included all the code if you want to modify it.
You select your main movies folder, then select an individual movie folder. Hit Run IMDB on File, reach the correct movie in imdb.com, then hit Use IMDB to write NFO file. The selection moves on one and you can just keep hitting Run and Use and hopefully get through your movies fairly quickly.
As the NFO file contents are still to be decided i've just let it record the URL in the file and that's it.
The checkboxes don't do anything yet. That's for later when doing multiple selections. I'll be doing some overwrite existing nfo options and i'll add extra info for when it comes definite.
coastal.. if you want to do something similar for tv series, let me know and I'll give you access to the XML interfaces on TheTVDB.com. They'll be changing soon, but the series lookup would be the same.
still no support for tvshow nfo files but i guess that would be a kick in the arse for me to add it
Oh.. I thought it was in there already. Sorry.
code is in there just needs some refactoring
It doesn't use the scraper standard. I'll have to look into that. I'm afraid i'm not very good on XML parsing and reg expressions.. but something to learn.
I would like to concentrate on getting images in. I've seen the other threads list movieposters.com etc for images and it would be nice to be shown a selection of possible images and then select one quickly - dumping it to both folder.jpg and movie.tbn. Personally i've liked the available images on wikipedia so i'll include that too for my own benefit.
you'll find the source code for the scraper parser in xbmc/utils/ScraperParser.cpp
as long as you have the basic tools (an xml parser and a regexp parser) you dont need to understand any of them - just clone my code in c#.
I've finished the code for writing simple nfo files containing just the imdb url.
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.net Framework 2.0 is required.
Find your parent movie folder, select the movies without NFO files,
run imdb, and click use imdb to save an nfo.
I think I have (IMHO) another good idea for you; how about inteas writting a new application from scratch, you instead extend
MeD's Movie Manager so it can export movie data to NFO files (in XBMC's scraper XML standard).
MeD's Movie Manager today pulls movie metadata information from IMDb (and TV-show info from TV.com) and stores it into a SQL database (HSQLDB comes pre.packaged and is the recommended default), so the scraper functionallity is already there, it is only the export to seperate NFO/XML for each movie that is missing. Later maybe
MeD's Movie Manager could also be extended to use XBMC's scraper parser and scraper XML's to be able to use any website that XBMC has a scraper for.
MeD's Movie Manager is also a great for cataloging and managing you movies on a windows, mac and linux computers.
MeD's Movie Manager is a free software distributed under the GPL open source license. The code is JAVA to be cross-platform compatible.
PS! Not directly related but also checkout this
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=27990
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Here's my movie cleaner. It'll create NFO files for those missing and create movie images which xbmc is certain to pick up. It requires .net framework. 2.0 i think.
You got some nice ideas there Gamester but i wanted to just do something that would get a new avi file into xbmc with the correct movie details and image quickly. .. plus i don't know java yet so it would be up hill curve and i don't have the time no more - started a new job.
cant u make the program to grabb the image from i imdb ?
and make copy them to folder.jpg
xmbc have problems when i have my movies in example e:\movies\starwars\lots of rarfiles
dosnt work
fiende, as i have stated about 100 times atleast in this forum:
you want to scan rarred movies you HAVE TO ENABLE TRANSPARENT ARCHIVES
I know that this is very old post, but I'm searching a simople tool which create *.nfo file containing just the imdb url
Thanks in advance for help