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XBMC fan edit scraper

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Hi everybody,

Those of you that use XBMC might be interested in this. I made a scraper for fanedits that, for now, uses fanedits.com (a.k.a. originaltrilogy.com) for data. I chose not to use fanedit.org because the data here isn't structured as consistently and is harder to scrape.

[url]https://github.com/nwtn/metadata.fanedits.com[/URL]

It's fairly basic right now, but it's working in my limited tests.
 
Nice! I'm interested.

How often is fanedits.com updated, though? It seems kinda arbitrary what's on there. I guess it depends on user submissions? Besides, some only have a link to ot.com instead of a description, and none of the fanedits have cover art.

Still, great work!
 
It's user-updated, ya. I signed up for an account (different than my forum account) and was able to start putting info in right away. As I get myself organized, I'll start adding/updating content for things that I'm putting on my media center. Hopefully this will encourage others to start adding content too.
 
Moved to General FE discussions.
 
I like this idea and I would love if fe.org were more easily scrapable. That being said, would it make more sense to be submitting fanedits to themoviedb.org which basically exists for XBMC? As far as I know it allows whatever sort of entry.

http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/103...the-empire-strikes-back-despecialized-edition

http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/103759-star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-despecialized-edition

If this is a good idea, I would say whenever a movie is submitted to fe.org an entry should also be created at themoviedb.org.
 
TheMovieDB does not allow fanedits or any other unreleased alternate or custom edit. There's a reason why you couldn't find Harmy's episode 4 to link to - it's deleted by the mods. It's a question of time before one of the mods discovers the rest of them (TMBTM's War of the Stars is also on there). Link
 
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