2013-07-08, 12:19
New Features in 2.0.0
Season artwork
Although AniDB doesn't use seasons, the scraper now attempts to add artwork for seasons 1 and 0.
This is useful as if you want to link a movie to a TV show, you will be put into a season view when looking at the show.
The season 1 artwork will use the defaulttvdbseason from the mapping list.
Movie sets from anime-movieset-list.xml
Movie sets are now taken by default from anime-movieset-list.xml and not from themoviedb.org.
If you want to continue only using themoviedb.org sets, you will need to change the scraper settings accordingly.
You can also take sets from both sites and choose a preference if there's a conflict.
If you previously disabled sets, that will continue to be respected.
The sets will try to respect "Use Official Title" setting although currently only English language set titles are available (alongside the "main" Romaji titles).
Your help is needed to supply (Official) Non-English set titles.
You can also define a personal movie set list.
Example:
In the personal list you don't need to include language information for set titles.
The movie names are ignored by the scraper, only the anidbid is used (they're just there for readability).
To exclude movies from being in any set, leave the title blank.
A simple way to get the personal set list to work (on Windows) is to place the file directly on your C:\ drive, and use the URL:
(Note the three forward slashes after file:)
Trailers and Certification from themoviedb.org
Thanks to the rewrite these use the shared functions from the official themoviedb/universal scrapers (as do themoviedb.org sets) so they should function in the same way.
There is also the possibility of expanding to use other shared functions (some more easily than others) if anyone has any suggestions.
Misc.
Genre handling has been rewritten, and the old "Return only Genres with weight" has been replaced by "Minimum Genre weight". If you'd previously changed the old setting, you'll need to adjust the new setting accordingly.
Poster/banner settings have been removed, both are now always retrieved when possible.
Google search has also been rewritten to avoid hitting AniDB so much (and potentially causing bans).
The major effort in 2.0.0 was a complete back-end rewrite, which is why its a full version bump despite only a handful of new features.
The AniDB Client rules have also been updated slightly to always pad episode numbers unless the total episode count is under 10, and also to handle trailing periods.
Season artwork
Although AniDB doesn't use seasons, the scraper now attempts to add artwork for seasons 1 and 0.
This is useful as if you want to link a movie to a TV show, you will be put into a season view when looking at the show.
The season 1 artwork will use the defaulttvdbseason from the mapping list.
Movie sets from anime-movieset-list.xml
Movie sets are now taken by default from anime-movieset-list.xml and not from themoviedb.org.
If you want to continue only using themoviedb.org sets, you will need to change the scraper settings accordingly.
You can also take sets from both sites and choose a preference if there's a conflict.
If you previously disabled sets, that will continue to be respected.
The sets will try to respect "Use Official Title" setting although currently only English language set titles are available (alongside the "main" Romaji titles).
Your help is needed to supply (Official) Non-English set titles.
You can also define a personal movie set list.
Example:
Code:
<anime-set-list>
<set>
<anime anidbid="6432">Lupin Sansei vs Meitantei Conan</anime>
<titles>
<title>Lupin Sansei Collection</title>
</titles>
</set>
</anime-set-list>The movie names are ignored by the scraper, only the anidbid is used (they're just there for readability).
To exclude movies from being in any set, leave the title blank.
A simple way to get the personal set list to work (on Windows) is to place the file directly on your C:\ drive, and use the URL:
Code:
file:///c:/pers-anime-movieset-list.xmlTrailers and Certification from themoviedb.org
Thanks to the rewrite these use the shared functions from the official themoviedb/universal scrapers (as do themoviedb.org sets) so they should function in the same way.
There is also the possibility of expanding to use other shared functions (some more easily than others) if anyone has any suggestions.
Misc.
Genre handling has been rewritten, and the old "Return only Genres with weight" has been replaced by "Minimum Genre weight". If you'd previously changed the old setting, you'll need to adjust the new setting accordingly.
Poster/banner settings have been removed, both are now always retrieved when possible.
Google search has also been rewritten to avoid hitting AniDB so much (and potentially causing bans).
The major effort in 2.0.0 was a complete back-end rewrite, which is why its a full version bump despite only a handful of new features.
The AniDB Client rules have also been updated slightly to always pad episode numbers unless the total episode count is under 10, and also to handle trailing periods.
