cinefiles

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Organizes, indexes, and pulls relevant info for your movie library presented in a clean, locally-resourced, set of webpages.

Requirements

• Python 3.5+
• *nix operating system (Mac OS, Linux, etc) (This will be cross-platform by v2.0)

Installation

pip install cinefiles

Usage

Downloading to appropriatly named folders (each folder’s name is the name of the movie it holds) NOTE: Folders can contain subfolders with movies in them i.e. => “James Bond Movies/Goldeneye”

import cinefiles as cf
directory = "/Volumes/HDD/Movies"
search = cf.Cinefiles(searchfolder=directory)
search.run()

To rename folders automatically: (this can’t be undone automatically yet)

import cinefiles as cf
directory = "/Volumes/HDD/jumble_of_movies"
organize = cf.Cinefolders(searchfolder=directory)
organize.organizefolder()

Notes

• If you change the name of any of your folders you'll have to run the run() function again to fix the links in the master index.htm
• Any movies that aren't found are written into a 'cinefiles-misses.txt' file in the search folder. Add a correctly made link.xml to that movie folder (see examples folder), or rename that movie's folder to a better (more searchable) name.

What does cinefiles actually do:

cinefiles updates this folder…

• Movies/

  • Down Periscope/

    • movie.mp4

  • Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)/

    • somecrazyunrelatedname.mkv

  • Mulan (1998)/

    • mulan.mp4

  • Pirate Movies/

    • Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End/

      • worldsend.mov

    • Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl/

      • blackpearl.mpv

… to have a structure like this:

• Movies/

  • index.htm

  • Down Periscope/

    • index.htm
    • movie.mp4

  • Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)/

    • index.htm
    • somecrazyunrelatedname.mkv

  • Mulan (1998)/

    • index.htm
    • mulan.mp4

  • Pirate Movies/

    • Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End/

      • index.htm
      • worldsend.mov

    • Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl/

      • index.htm
      • blackpearl.mpv

To remove all the added files:

import cinefiles as cf
clear_run = cf.Cinefiles(configfile='cinefiles.ini')
clear_run.clear_run.purgecinefiles()

What does cinefolders actually do: ================================

cinefiles updates this folder…

• Movies/
  • Manchester.by.the.Sea.2016.DVDScr.XVID.AC3.HQ.Hive-CM8.mkv
  • mulan.mp4
  • men who stare at goats, the.mp4

… to this!

Movies/

• Manchester by the Sea (2016)/

  • Manchester.by.the.Sea.2016.DVDScr.XVID.AC3.HQ.Hive-CM8.mkv

• Mulan (1984)/

  • mulan.mp4

• Men who stare at goats, The/

  • the_men_who_stare_at_goats.mp4

Which can conveniently then be properly parsed by cinefiles!