Scrape art and metadata from TheGamesDB.net

[smidley]

It would be nice to be able to scrape artwork and metadata for games from http://thegamesdb.net and then store it locally.

Info about scraping with the API can be found in the wiki here: http://wiki.thegamesdb.net

[avjui]

Do you mean that i should replace this for "Update Game List" function?

[smidley]

No, I mean that when a game is downloaded, Gamez should query the API for thegamesdb and see if there is available art or metadata to download with it. If there is, it will be downloaded and placed into the games download folder.

Gamez could also be set up kind of like sickbeard, where you could keep track of what games you have and "post process" them by downloading art and metadata.

[avjui]

How must this look like

Gamename/ ----------------->Cover.jpg ----------------->fanart/ ---------------------------->Picture1 ----------------------------->Picture2 ----------------->meta.nfo ?

[smidley]

Gamename/ ---------------->folder.jpg or poster.jpg (front box art) ---------------->fanart.jpg ---------------->banner.jpg ---------------->logo.png --------->gamename.nfo

[avjui]

Please can you post me a gamename.nfo. So i can see the structur of the file.

[smidley]

I don't personally use local nfo files, but I took this info from Advanced Launcher. Much more information is available from the API, so it could be added also. This is just the minimal structure.

<game>
    <title></title>
    <platform></platform>
    <year></year>
    <publisher></publisher>
    <genre></genre>
    <plot></plot>
</game>

[avjui]

Hi

I have made some changes and push a developer branch please can you test it? At the moment it will write only a gamename.nfo into the downloded folder. !!! Please Note that you must specified your complet download path where SABnzbd downloads your games This is in Settings -> Downloads -> SABnzbd -> SABnzbd+ Download Folder

Please give feedback

[avjui]

I have a look to the art downloads but I have found some problem. I have seen that some files are png´s and some are jpg´s. For some art´s we need jpg´s and for some png´s. So i must convert the Images. And thats the problem. I don´t know some small libary to do this and I don´t want some depencies to PIL. Anybody know a small libary for this?

Thanks

[aaronflorey]

I tested the development branch, but it wouldn't postprocess the folder at all. I've been trying to work out why, but i can't find it. I'm looking into a python lib to change the images for you.

[avjui]

First thanks for testing. Hmm on witch system do you test? Can you post debuglog. Here it work on freenas

[aaronflorey]

I'm testing it on Ubuntu server 12.10, with XBOX 360 games. I'll try it again later

[aaronflorey]

http://pastebin.com/T8pi5kpK

[avjui]

I have made a new issues. https://github.com/avjui/Gamez/issues/65