[mythtv-users] batch tmdb updates

[Yan Seiner]

Ian Forde wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 16:50 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
>   
>> Is there any way to do a batch tmdb update?
>>
>> I'd like to do a one-time scan through all the movies I have, and update 
>> all of them.
>>
>> Right now the one-at-a-time menu clicking is painful, plus it doesn't 
>> work well with browsing for movie info.
>>
>> A CLI script would be great.
>>     
>
> Heh - I'm guessing you're using the Terra theme and want to get the
> fanart images... ;)
>
> At least that's what I'm doing today.  Unfortunately, I'm doing it the
> old-fashioned way - by hand, one movie at a time... for 1100 movies...
> One thing to look out for - themoviedb doesn't have as much info as imdb
> does, and the descriptions aren't always as accurate...
>   
Sort of.... I figured out why so many lookups keep failing.

My rip script names the movies as follows:

Some_Movie_name-#.avi, where -# is the track/chapter/whatever dvds call it #

and the '_' and the -[0-9]* at the end confuse the lookup algorithm.

Unfortunately I don't know enough perl to make sense of 
imdb-bulk-update.pl .

Is there some way to s/_/ /g ; s/-[0-9]*\.avi/\.avi/on the movie names?

--Yan


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