2012-08-24, 23:32
I wrote this whole reply and then found more problems with it and eventually landed on the fact that it will not work period. I am trying another idea with nested subfolder filters but I have to leave for a while and wanted to share my thinking even though it is flawed ;P
Warning: the below advice is incorrect!
The plugin is written kind of strange. First of all, the shows are right there at the root level, without any categorization or anything, so scanning in the root with My.Library isn't exactly obvious but can be done using regex.
How it works is by using the regex_name attribute to filter the subdirectory name from root using a regular expression. In this case that regular expression will match most any combination or length of characters and symbols. A dot matches almost everything and an asterisk is telling it to find 0 or more of the previous (the dot). So translated, anything goes. It will look at every directory under root.
When recursive is set to true, this would run across every single file and directory presented by the plugin at any level of depth below root so be careful with this type of filter. Without a contains filter to limit what is written to disk, who knows how much data could be presented by the plugin!
This filter, in english, looks at all files and folders under root no matter what the names. When looking it is filtering out and processing on those files that have a duration longer than 1000 seconds. Additionally, it is filtering out and processing only items that contain one of the two show names listed in the contains filter delimited by double pipes (Logical OR separators).
There is another big problem with this plugin though. If you navigate it manually, you can see real quick that a recursive scan could send your computer off into infinitude. Each season is presented as a subdirectory to each season. There is no end to that and it really violates the entire design paradigm of a directory plugin. Anyways, there is a way around it but it's not the cleanest and it actually means that you will only pickup the default season that is presented. There are of course alternative methods to getting all shows from all seasons, but the filters would be more involved and I like simplicity. You can attempt the complex if you're up for it, I will assist
So to get around it and prevent the recursive scan from diving into those ever-present season folders, we put in an excludes filter to exclude anything containing the word season.
Here is the final filter that works pretty well considering the limitations of the plugin. You may have wondered, if we use a filter to only get the shows presented in the top level directory of the show (we exclude the Season folders and those are the only subfolders) why wouldn't we just take recursion off all together? Because we are starting at the root level and need the tool to drill past that to the show directories.
Warning: the below advice is incorrect!
(2012-08-24, 20:54)spyder Wrote: I was trying to make a DIY config file. I tried using "episodes" but it wasn't finding anything. Then I used your "generic" filter and got a show to add a folder and strm files to it, but when I added more show titles it never added other titles even though it was running and retreiving info. I deleted the show it found before "Cool.Tools", ran it again and it only added this one show. I then took out the "Cool Tools" subfolder and it ran without it but got nothing again.
The plugin is written kind of strange. First of all, the shows are right there at the root level, without any categorization or anything, so scanning in the root with My.Library isn't exactly obvious but can be done using regex.
How it works is by using the regex_name attribute to filter the subdirectory name from root using a regular expression. In this case that regular expression will match most any combination or length of characters and symbols. A dot matches almost everything and an asterisk is telling it to find 0 or more of the previous (the dot). So translated, anything goes. It will look at every directory under root.
When recursive is set to true, this would run across every single file and directory presented by the plugin at any level of depth below root so be careful with this type of filter. Without a contains filter to limit what is written to disk, who knows how much data could be presented by the plugin!
This filter, in english, looks at all files and folders under root no matter what the names. When looking it is filtering out and processing on those files that have a duration longer than 1000 seconds. Additionally, it is filtering out and processing only items that contain one of the two show names listed in the contains filter delimited by double pipes (Logical OR separators).
PHP Code:
<DIY path="plugin://plugin.video.diy/" recursive="true" >
<subfolder name=".*" type="episodes" regex_name="true">
<filter>
<runtime>GT|1000</runtime>
<contains>Bath Crashers || Decked Out</contains>
</filter>
</subfolder>
</DIY>
There is another big problem with this plugin though. If you navigate it manually, you can see real quick that a recursive scan could send your computer off into infinitude. Each season is presented as a subdirectory to each season. There is no end to that and it really violates the entire design paradigm of a directory plugin. Anyways, there is a way around it but it's not the cleanest and it actually means that you will only pickup the default season that is presented. There are of course alternative methods to getting all shows from all seasons, but the filters would be more involved and I like simplicity. You can attempt the complex if you're up for it, I will assist
So to get around it and prevent the recursive scan from diving into those ever-present season folders, we put in an excludes filter to exclude anything containing the word season.
PHP Code:
<exclude>
<contains>Season</contains>
</exclude>
Here is the final filter that works pretty well considering the limitations of the plugin. You may have wondered, if we use a filter to only get the shows presented in the top level directory of the show (we exclude the Season folders and those are the only subfolders) why wouldn't we just take recursion off all together? Because we are starting at the root level and need the tool to drill past that to the show directories.
PHP Code:
<DIY path="plugin://plugin.video.diy/" recursive="true" >
<subfolder name=".*" type="episodes" regex_name="true">
<filter>
<runtime>GT|1000</runtime>
<contains>Bath Crashers || Decked Out</contains>
</filter>
<exclude>
<contains>Season</contains>
</exclude>
</subfolder>
</DIY>
