Mendia File Scraper

About

This is a client for mendia. It indexes local media (currently limited to movies), stores the findings in a local database and publishes new additions to the server running mendia.

Installation:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libmediainfo0v5
pip install mendiafilescraper

Note: This package needs the mediainfo library.

Ubuntu/Debian: 'libmediainfo0v5'

Arch: 'libmediainfo'

Usage:

--setup:

Asks for

• Username
• Password
• Media folders
• Server address (e.g wss://hostname/ws/, depending on the mendia server)

and stores everything in a config file in the home directory

~/.mendiafilescraper/config.txt

--scan:

Searches all given media folders for new additions and adds them to the database.

--publish:

Sends new additions to the configured mendia server. Use only with --scan

Example:

Settings

mendia-scraper --setup

Add media paths, specify the server address and put in your username and password.

Note: Ask the admin of your target mendia server to create a username/password for you.

First scan

The initial scan populates the local database. --publish should not be used for the first scan, otherwise this might flood the server.

mendia-scraper --scan

Warning: Make sure that the initial scan worked before proceeding.

Real scan

After the first scan we can add --publish, from now on new movies will be sent to mendia.

mendia-scraper --scan --publish

Cronjob

It makes sense to add the scan command to your crontab for automatic scans.

crontab -e

For a daily scan add

@daily mendia-scraper --scan --publish

Problems:

I have a new movie but mendia did not inform about it

It is possible to delete movies from the local database and to retry scanning the movie.

Note: It is easier to use a gui application with sqlite support, but on typical NAS systems there is no gui.

sudo apt install sqlite3
cd ~/.MendiaFileScraper
sqlite3 database.db

Let's say we want to remove the movie "Captive State".

In the sqlite3 shell:

SELECT title, hash FROM movies WHERE instr(title, 'Captive') > 0;

If you do not see any result, play with the search parameters until you found it.

Let's say our result is:

Captive State|a67edf9ee879a7562c17092b97dfe672

The second value is the hash value that was computed based on the movie file. To delete the entry with the has "a67edf9ee879a7562c17092b97dfe672" we do:

DELETE FROM movies WHERE hash="a67edf9ee879a7562c17092b97dfe672";

CTRL+D to exit from the sqlite3 shell.

Voila, the movie was removed and you can retry scanning with

mendia-scraper --scan --publish