[teegee543]

I couldn't find a simple program to fetch information from IMDB and art from TMDB to create an offline database for XBMC so I wrote my own. Suggestions and bug reports are greatly appreciated.

http://www.richardpeng.com/projects/pyXBMCscrape/

Main Features:
- Detects potential mismatches when it searches and prompts for the correct IMDB/TMDB ID
- Run in interactive mode to choose art from a list of URLs
- Force the script to use a specific IMDB/TMDB ID for the scrape
- Will not overwrite existing nfo and art files by default
- Download extra fanart

Code:

Usage: pyXBMCscrape.py [options] filenames

Options:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -i             Interactively choose poster and backdrop
  -r             Rescrape nfo files and art
  -R             Recurse into subdirectories
  --no-nfo       Do not fetch IMDB or create nfo
  --no-art       Do not fetch TMDB art
  --imdb=IMDBID  Specify the IMDB ID to scrape
  --tmdb=TMDBID  Specify the TMDB ID to fetch art
  --all-art      Fetch all available backdrops

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good tool so far, but would not be smarter if we can use the orginal scrapers from xbmc?

[teegee543]

The purpose of my script is closer to that of Media Companion and Ember. I believe I posted in the wrong category since my script isn't intended for direct integration with XBMC, but an external tool. It should be in the "Supplemental Tools for XBMC" forum.