2009-10-31, 17:05
Wellcome to the Movieplayer.it scraper for movies thread.
This scraper is able to download all the movies informations it can find on the movieplayer.it site, including:
- posters
- fanarts from wallpapers, promotionals and scene pictures
- actors thumbs
- plot (trama)
- tagline (tema)
- outline (sintesi)
- premiered
- rating and votes
- trailer
- director and writer
- genre
- year
and also form other sites:
- TMDB posters and fanarts
- MPAA, studio and ratings from IMDb
With the recent XBMC Dharma builds, the scraper has become and addon that can be downloaded and updated directly from xbmc, but for quicker updates and for older versions of xbmc you can find download links at the bottom of this post.
You'll need to paste the content of the zip in the scraper folder "metadata.movieplayer.it" in your xbmc (the position of the folder depends if you are using xbmc as portable or not).
UPDATES:
09/07/2011 - Almost completely rewritten: Bing is now the default search engine, all the infos by default are taken from movieplayer.it the user will enable the other features.
Many, many fixes.....
07/03/2011 - Fixed Google search results.
13/02/2011 - Fixed studio's logos retrieving only one studio from imdb.
25/10/2010 - Fixed Trailers (it was deleted by mistake)
23/10/2010 - Adjusted the MP search, but Google engine is better and more reliable as it doesn't need the exact movie name. So Google is the default again and we don't hammer MP site either. Fixed the .nfo url too (tnx to Spiff)
14/10/2010 - Finally added the movieplayer.it own search (they removed the base64 encoding). Added one option in settings for Google search and another one to get just one or more Posters from MP. Added Polish Translation. The version bump now to 1.1.0
28/08/2010 - Reduced Movieplayer fanarts to just the ones in the summary page to improve speed, not anymore wallpaper, foto di scena etc, because they are in the summary too.
27/08/2010 - Modified the search string to have more and better results from google (yep it finds more movies now!!)
10/08/2010 - Created git repo for both movieplayer scrapers, and fixed some minor things for Dharma
29/07/2010 - Fixed Plot because of another site code change.
20/07/2010 - Small optmizations for better results; slightly mods to plot, tagline and outline; some small fixes for Xbmc Dharma
18/07/2010 - Updated to match the latest changes to the site (again)
21/04/2010 - Updated to match the latest changes to the site
05/03/2010 - Added Fanart collector and fixed Actors bug
04/01/2010 - Improved the Google search adding the "Year" to the "CreateSearchUrl" and "sorted=yes" to the "GetSearchResults"
02/01/2010 - Removed "Cimi's" search and left only the Google one.
04/12/2009 - Fixed TMDB Fanarts and Thumbs broken due to Camelot beta changes in "common" folder
20/11/2009 - Added option to retreive up to 4 pages of results from mp.it it' will take longer obviously.
17/11/2009 - Added staright MP search (tnx Cimi for the great help), still possible to use Google search enabling it in the scraper settings.
16/11/2009 - cleanup of results title names for future XBMC filtering of duplicated entries (r24674 )
15/11/2009 - fixed "outline" problem with the Rapier skin, it actually contain the plot and not the curiosity anymore.
14/11/2009 - changed search url with myown google custom search to have more results
12/11/2009 - changed method to retrieve the IMDb ID and the so the MPAA, studio, rating and Fanart
09/11/2009 - added scraping of MPAA, studio, and ratings from IMDb (enabled by default, if disabled it will retrieve thos from movieplayer.it but the datas will probably be unusable by skins that use MPAA and studo icons)
04/11/2009 - added download of TMDB Posters and Fanarts and fixed their selection in settings
Enjoy.
Download the up to date movieplayer scraper for movies from Git Repository
or the older version for xbmc 9.11 Mediafire folder
Link to TV Show scraper thread
and TV Shows Git Repository download link
...and for last if you'd like to buy me a beer ...
This scraper is able to download all the movies informations it can find on the movieplayer.it site, including:
- posters
- fanarts from wallpapers, promotionals and scene pictures
- actors thumbs
- plot (trama)
- tagline (tema)
- outline (sintesi)
- premiered
- rating and votes
- trailer
- director and writer
- genre
- year
and also form other sites:
- TMDB posters and fanarts
- MPAA, studio and ratings from IMDb
With the recent XBMC Dharma builds, the scraper has become and addon that can be downloaded and updated directly from xbmc, but for quicker updates and for older versions of xbmc you can find download links at the bottom of this post.
You'll need to paste the content of the zip in the scraper folder "metadata.movieplayer.it" in your xbmc (the position of the folder depends if you are using xbmc as portable or not).
UPDATES:
09/07/2011 - Almost completely rewritten: Bing is now the default search engine, all the infos by default are taken from movieplayer.it the user will enable the other features.
Many, many fixes.....
07/03/2011 - Fixed Google search results.
13/02/2011 - Fixed studio's logos retrieving only one studio from imdb.
25/10/2010 - Fixed Trailers (it was deleted by mistake)
23/10/2010 - Adjusted the MP search, but Google engine is better and more reliable as it doesn't need the exact movie name. So Google is the default again and we don't hammer MP site either. Fixed the .nfo url too (tnx to Spiff)
14/10/2010 - Finally added the movieplayer.it own search (they removed the base64 encoding). Added one option in settings for Google search and another one to get just one or more Posters from MP. Added Polish Translation. The version bump now to 1.1.0
28/08/2010 - Reduced Movieplayer fanarts to just the ones in the summary page to improve speed, not anymore wallpaper, foto di scena etc, because they are in the summary too.
27/08/2010 - Modified the search string to have more and better results from google (yep it finds more movies now!!)
10/08/2010 - Created git repo for both movieplayer scrapers, and fixed some minor things for Dharma
29/07/2010 - Fixed Plot because of another site code change.
20/07/2010 - Small optmizations for better results; slightly mods to plot, tagline and outline; some small fixes for Xbmc Dharma
18/07/2010 - Updated to match the latest changes to the site (again)
21/04/2010 - Updated to match the latest changes to the site
05/03/2010 - Added Fanart collector and fixed Actors bug
04/01/2010 - Improved the Google search adding the "Year" to the "CreateSearchUrl" and "sorted=yes" to the "GetSearchResults"
02/01/2010 - Removed "Cimi's" search and left only the Google one.
04/12/2009 - Fixed TMDB Fanarts and Thumbs broken due to Camelot beta changes in "common" folder
20/11/2009 - Added option to retreive up to 4 pages of results from mp.it it' will take longer obviously.
17/11/2009 - Added staright MP search (tnx Cimi for the great help), still possible to use Google search enabling it in the scraper settings.
16/11/2009 - cleanup of results title names for future XBMC filtering of duplicated entries (r24674 )
15/11/2009 - fixed "outline" problem with the Rapier skin, it actually contain the plot and not the curiosity anymore.
14/11/2009 - changed search url with myown google custom search to have more results
12/11/2009 - changed method to retrieve the IMDb ID and the so the MPAA, studio, rating and Fanart
09/11/2009 - added scraping of MPAA, studio, and ratings from IMDb (enabled by default, if disabled it will retrieve thos from movieplayer.it but the datas will probably be unusable by skins that use MPAA and studo icons)
04/11/2009 - added download of TMDB Posters and Fanarts and fixed their selection in settings
Enjoy.
Download the up to date movieplayer scraper for movies from Git Repository
or the older version for xbmc 9.11 Mediafire folder
Link to TV Show scraper thread
and TV Shows Git Repository download link
...and for last if you'd like to buy me a beer ...