2011-05-11, 15:19
Adeiko Wrote:Hey angelscryTo manage comics you need to found an application that was able to display .cbr or .cbz files using command line. Those files are just comics images files compressed into .zip or .rar format and renamed into .cbz or .cbr.
Some months ago you showed how to use Advanced Launcher as a comic viewer here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=681...tcount=832
Can you explain better how to do it? Is tehre any scraper in development of that?
I have actually tested several applications on Linux, but only make a WIKI for QComicBook application. I'm pretty sure it is possible to do the same under windows, but not have found the time yet to discover the right application to do that.
The .cbr and .cbz files will be managed by Advanced Launcher as items (like roms) and launchers will not be assigned as a collection for example.
Unfortunately, actually, if you want to build your comic books collection you have to do it manually (edit manually the information concerning your comic, or comic collection, found manually thumbs and fanarts images).
Actually the main problem is to write a good scrapper and found good www sources. If have already found Comic Book DB for US comics, BD Gest' for European comics (but it is only in french) and nothing really interesting for Mangas. Maybe some of you know other comic/mangas database sources.
Also the main problem with a scrapper will be to recognize the comic name and tome number. Unlike game roms, there is not really convention for comics, BD and mangas names. So if a scrapper will be made I do not think it will be possible to have automatic scrapping, but only manual or maybe semi-automatic. As you see it is not really simple.