Hello.

I am running TVHeadend on a headless Debian server and have a folder full of recordings (TV shows and movies).

I watch these recordings back, via a number of Kodi clients, and use MYSql to sync watched/resume statuses.

However, as I watch the recordings back as a video source, I only get the file name in Kodi. I don't get any details about the movie or episode itself.

Are there any decent scrapers that could keep an eye on the recording folder and add information/fanart that could later be used by Kodi for playback?

I don't need anything as fullblown as Plex or Emby.

Thanks

Dosen't Kodi have plug ins that people write?
You might google plugins for kodi and maybe add what type of plugin you're looking for then hopefully pull something up you could use.

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I did consider that but I wasn't quite sure how that would work in practice - i.e. whether I should scrape the data to each client's internal database or whether I could save it to the shared folder to be picked up by all the clients.

just spit balling here. Depending on how often you change the movies out. Scrape once, or periodically, store information in some sort of data base and associate it to the movie name, so when you pull up the movie you could have it reference the data base to get the information for it, then display it on demand.

How you attach that to the Kodi is beyond me. I do not use Kodi.

that would eliminate repetitious file scrapping and should cut down on time to get info in order to display it.

If you use something like or use 'exiftool' it can only get what information that is on the file, then maybe attach some code to search the internet for Idb whatever that web sight is called to get more information on the movie if it is available.