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Hello guys,

i have a little question.
Is it possible to write an Movie Scraper in Python instead of an xml file?

I have followed the manuals for "hello world addons" and others to have an working simple addon. But when i take it as scraper. I get an Error:
21:22:45 T:8904 WARNING: failed to load scraper XML from C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.test\addon.py

My addon.xml looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<addon id="Mytril.scraper.1" name="Mytrils Add-on" version="0.0.1" provider-name="Mytril">
<requires>
<import addon="xbmc.python" version="2.1.0"/>
</requires>
<extension point="xbmc.metadata.scraper.movies" library="addon.py"/>
<extension point="xbmc.addon.metadata">
<summary lang="en_gb">This is a test addon</summary>
<description lang="en_gb">My first test addon</description>
<disclaimer lang="en_gb"></disclaimer>
<language></language>
<platform>all</platform>
<license></license>
<forum></forum>
<website></website>
<email></email>
<source></source>
<news></news>
<assets>
<icon></icon>
<fanart></fanart>
<screenshot></screenshot>
</assets>
</extension>
</addon>

And the addon.py:
import sys
import xbmcgui
import xbmcplugin

addon_handle = int(sys.argv[1])

file = open("F:\Test2\mytrilfile.txt", "w")
file.write("Hallo Welt")
file.close();

xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory(addon_handle)

It's only available for v18 and still needs some minor work

Hello martijn,

thanks for your quick reply, but what do you mean with "minor" is it stable enouth to try it?

Oh i see v17 was the next release. So v18 is in alpha...

Last question:

Would it be possible to get in v18 or later as a scraper the referenz to the file to extract (for Example) the mkv tags?

I've seen this diagram http://kodi.wiki/view/File:Scraperinterface.png. So it is / would be not possible?