[Flomaster]

Ember works (for the moat part) using mono in linux

I can use ember with my Live build of xbmc?

-=Jason=-

[Danielocean]

why not?! Try it!

you dont have to link Ember with XBMC, but you can... i use Ember without any link...
use a tool like "flexible renamer" to chance the extrathumb folder to extrafanart... its very easy in that way... i dont know such a effective tool like Ember... maybe one day it will also manage my music database...

[SlickRed]

Hi all,

I know this is an old post, but I was hoping to get some help all the same.

I was hoping to use the bash script linked above to download multiple fanarts for each of my TV shows. I have no experience with bash scripts, but I've been reading on them for the past few hours.

I know the author of the script made it clear he wouldn't help with the script past making it available, but I was hoping SOMEOME might give me some idea of how to use a bash script? I can't even work out if I am supposed to be running it from within XBMC or not.

I'm a linux novice, so if anyone is kind enough to reply please pretend you are talking to an idiot...which you basically are.

Cheers,
SlickRed

[hikaricore]

Bash scripts are run from a terminal.

And my original post tells you exactly how to run it if you would read:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=554...tcount=492

[SlickRed]

Thanks for the reply Hikaricore.

I actually just figured out the problem. I read your post very carefully...my problem was I don't understand things like chmod. I was also trying to run the script when it was saved in the directory of the TV show, not /home/username.

It's working now though, thanks very much

SlickRed

[hikaricore]

I know it's not the best thing ever but it will very easily turn a many hours process into a 20 minute process.
Best of luck.

[Flomaster]

step by step for anyone not in the know

open terminal or putty and type the following

Code:

cd ~/
nano extrafanart.sh

paste the following

Code:

#!/bin/bash

mkdir extrafanart
cd extrafanart
for i in `seq 1 $1`
do
        wget http://www.thetvdb.com/banners/fanart/original/$2-$i.jpg
done

ctrl+x to save and close

chmod it

Code:

chmod x+ extrafanart.sh

now change directory to your tv.show folder. once in the folder run this

~/extrafanart.sh [number of images to download] [TVDB ID NUMBER]

I go to TVDB and get the tv show ID number and look how many fanarts there are then i would type example

Code:

cd ~/Tvshows/dexter/
~/extrafanart.sh 36 79349

or if you want to one line it

Code:

cd ~/Tvshows/dexter/ && ~/extrafanart.sh 36 79349

36 = 36 images
79349 = Tv show id number


-=Jason=-

[teegee543]

I've released a new scraper script that supports fetching extrafanart for movies:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=82697

Let me know what you guys think!

[frieten]

wow i didn't actually know we could use extrafanart for movies as well as tvshows lol.

thanks for the tip.

[supertom44]

I ended up creating a very very simple python function to download the extrafanart.

I couldn't be bothered with the tvdb api so you have to put in the series id, the number of images and the path you want it to download them to.

I might one day try and create a better version but literally only did this for my own use so I could add them easily.

[putneyj]

Hi all!

I have written an XBMC script for bulk downloading for all TV Shows and Movies. Currently the script is for XBMC Dharma, but I am working to re-write it to work with the JSON-RPC API for Eden. Please, take a look and let me know if you run into any issues, or if you have any features you would like to see.

http://github.com/putneyj/script.extrafanart-downloader

[paddycarey]

Hi all!

I have written an XBMC script for bulk downloading for all TV Shows and Movies. Currently the script is for XBMC Dharma, but I am working to re-write it to work with the JSON-RPC API for Eden. Please, take a look and let me know if you run into any issues, or if you have any features you would like to see.

http://github.com/putneyj/script.extrafanart-downloader

Hi putneyj,

I've recently (within the last week) written a script with exactly the same purpose and goals. My version only works on eden and not on dharma. Maybe we could work together to avoid duplication of effort if you're interested?

My script can be found at:

http://www.github.com/paddycarey/script....downloader

or

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=111031

[paddycarey]

For anyone who's interested, my extrafanart downloader script is now available in the official repo for eden-pre

Dharma's coming soon.