2013-01-01, 01:09
(2013-01-01, 00:59)5aq1b Wrote: Is there a way to Automate the Scraping process by Ember?
eg. I have setup Ember initially and scraped all the movies I had in my Movies folder however now if I download a movie and drop it into my Movie folder, I still have to right click on the movie and click re-scrape movie. Is there a way that it can be automated? ie. if I drop it in, then Ember will automatically detect it and do the necessary work and grab all the fanart without me touching it?
I use Eventghost to monitor my movie folder for additions. If it sees a new movie it'll wait a bit (for the movie to be completely copied) then fire up Ember in command line mode to do scraping and finally automatically update XBMC so it pulls the new movie. However, with the recent changes to IMDB, Ember has been struggling to match the correct movie so I've been forced to manually go in myself and fix things. Hopefully things return to normal soon because it's great just having things automated.
Additionally I have a 2nd Eventghost task that looks for when movies are removed so they are removed from the Ember database automatically.
If you want I could send you the XML settings file from Eventghost. If I recall that should import the very same steps I use which you'd just need to tweak to your file locations and whatever else you'd like to do.