[Xabis]

I have developed an addon that manages a virtual library for anime shows, accessed through a video source endpoint.

There are a few problems with the current video library which I am trying to solve: 1) the existing scrapers suck for anime (even anidb mod); the recognition is terrible. 2) As a consumer of these shows, I only care about playing "the next episode". I am not building out a real library here to hold on to forever. By "playing" the show, it plays the next episode, if there is one.

A lot of work has been done to implement python code that grabs watch progress from a tracking service (myanimelist), scan for files on disk to match them against shows that are being watched, and determine what shows have a file ready to play.

However, since this is all done in python, the only option I have available to present the list, is as a video addon. Personally, I would rather these shows be added to the actual tv show section, where it makes more sense.

I have seen several posts from Garbear and topfs2 from many years ago about a new python scraper system "Heimdall", and a "unified content database", which seems to possibly be what I am after. Confirmation on if these system will do what I want would be great.

So the question is, are any of these features actually planned to be integrated into a Kodi release? And if so, what version? I see that retroplayer is being added to v18, does that include the unified database, or just the emulation core?

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=238307 (2015) - discussion on unified content database
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=134012 (2012) - Project Heimdall
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=173744 (2013) - Scraper and Library Mode

[RockerC]

You do know that Kodi master (that is Kodi "nightlies" which eventually will become Kodi v18 Leia) does support Python scrapers right now?

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9984

Regading the other stuff with unified library; I don't know about status of Heimdall but Montellese was working on media importing and library integration which sounds similar to , see here:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=224794

and Garbear who coded a proof-of-oncept have hinted that he might soon start to work on a Games Library instead, and if he adds that then he will surley need to extend all library functionality to achive that, which will indirectly lead to improvement in other library features as well:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=141169

If those two becomes a reality first then perhaps you could then get to where you want to get to, with or without Heimdall.