[Croaker]

Any chance to get some methods to trigger content scraping manually?

I'd like to create a media management WebInterface but without that it would be kind of useless.

Think of this situation:
- server with tvheadend, mysql, samba,..., XBMC-Server (perhaps like in this post?)
- many clients, some openelec, none having any sources defined but connected to the MySQL DB

Then I can think of these features needed in WebInterface:
- Start Scanning (supported)
- Show newest content (supported)
- Show/Edit Details (supported)
- Delete content from DB (not sure if supported)
- Rescan a content item (unsupported)
- Rename/Move files on disk (unsupported) [*]
- Perhaps some methods to unpack/copy/move files from incoming folders (like torrent DLs) (unsupported) [*]
- ...
[*] perhaps those can be achieved with a python addon which can be triggered from JSON (at least afaik)

I know that some of those can be achieved using other tools, but i'd like to have all of that in one interface.
Reading the forum and other sources regularly i think i'm not alone with that wishes
So why not use XBMC directly. Not many pieces missing:
- Server-mode
- JSON methods

Cannot see why server mode should not be possible but i also know that there may be many coding-issues that stand against that i cannot see from outside
So perhaps for a first step 'just' the content scraping?

In fact that's why I'm posting here

[Mizaki]

Haven't tried but scrapers are just addons so Addons.ExecuteAddon might do what you want.

[Martijn]

Haven't tried but scrapers are just addons so Addons.ExecuteAddon might do what you want.

That won't work because they don't behave like normal addons