[paddycarey]

So I have a lot of Mixed Martial Arts videos in my collection and while some of the more popular ones are on themoviedb.org and can be scanned into the video library this is somewhat less than optimal.

TMDB often has very incomplete data (if any) for most MMA fight cards, and while it does have posters and fanart for a lot of events I think that having to download these manually is less important than having a good way to automatically organise and sort/filter/search them.

To try and overcome the shortcomings of using the movie library (or any of the other nfo based solutions) I've started to write an addon to scrape event/fight data for your local files from sherdog.com and allow to browse/search by various categories. sherdog.com's fight finder is the defacto standard source for MMA results and records and has listings for almost every pro fight ever sanctioned.

If you have a lot of events it takes a LONG time to populate the database on the first run.

To have the addon locate and identify an event you must place a file named "sherdogEventID" or "sherdogEventID.nfo" in the event's root folder which contains only the event's ID (on it's own on 1 line) from sherdog.com.

e.g. For UFC 92 the ID is 8732 which is found at the end of the event's URL.
And for Titan FC 20 it's 16436

If you want to add your own artwork/descriptions (if you have any I don't have please post it here) you can add them in the following folders:

Code:

Events: Use the ID number of the event as found on sherdog.com

userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.mmabrowser/events

"sherdogID-poster.jpg"
"sherdogID-fanart.jpg"
"sherdogID-description.txt"

Example: UFC 92
"/home/paddy/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.mmabrowser/events/8732-poster.jpg"
"/home/paddy/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.mmabrowser/events/8732-fanart.jpg"
"/home/paddy/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.mmabrowser/events/8732-description.txt"

Code:

Promotions: Use the name of the promotion EXACTLY as found on sherdog.com (with the spaces removed)

userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.mmabrowser/promotions

"promotionName-poster.jpg"
"promotionName-fanart.jpg"
"promotionName-description.txt"

Example: PRIDE
"/home/paddy/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.mmabrowser/promotions/PrideFightingChampionships-poster.jpg"
"/home/paddy/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.mmabrowser/promotions/PrideFightingChampionships-fanart.jpg"
"/home/paddy/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.mmabrowser/promotions/PrideFightingChampionships-description.txt"

You must first set the location of your MMA video folder in addon settings before the script will run.

Current features:
- Browse events by promotion
- Browse event by fighter
- List all events
- Search library for almost any info
- Automatically download fighter/event/promotion images/descriptions when available
- Display event/fighter/promotion info when available

You can download the latest version of the plugin from github here: https://github.com/paddycarey/plugin.video.mmabrowser

Or install the latest zip release from here.

If you find any bugs/have any questions/feature suggestions please post below.

I'd also really appreciate if anyone would like to contribute with some posters/logos for MMA promotions which I can display in the plugin (I'll keep a list of ones i already have below so that noone wastes any time).

You can view a current list of all the artwork available to the script here.

Screenshots:













Thanks,
Paddy