mymoviebook 1.4.0

Generate your own personal movie collection book

What is mymoviebook

It’s a script to generate your personal movie collection book.

This book is interactive and lets you find your movies quickly in a book with your prefered movie images.

This is a page of automatically generated movie collection:

[](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Turulomio/mymoviebook/master/doc/demo.pdf)

Linux installation

If you use Gentoo, you can find the ebuild in https://github.com/turulomio/myportage/tree/master/media-video/mymoviebook

Or you can install with pypi, writing:

pip install mymoviebook

Or you can install from sources:

python3 setup.py install

You also need to install Latex in your distribution

Usage

MyMovieBook uses PostgreSQL database as its backend, so we must create a new database and load the schema needed. To do it we just have to input the next command:

mymoviebook –createdb

By default it uses mymoviebook database, but we can change database connection parameters with: * –user USER Postgresql user * –port PORT Postgresql server port * –server SERVER Postgresql server address * –db DB Postgresql database

MyMovieBook it’s prepared to create big books with thousands of films. So, in order to do this managemente easy, It’s very important that movies are placed in numbered directories with 6 movies and its 6 covers. Although it’s optional, I recommend to apped the year of the film to the end of the title.

For example, this is the content of a directory named /Films/7/

-rw-r–r– 1 user user 3096243290 ene 2 18:37 ‘Descalzos por el parque. 1967.avi’ -rw-r–r– 1 user user 98977 ene 2 09:08 ‘Descalzos por el parque. 1967.jpg’ -rw-r–r– 1 user user 101423 ene 2 09:07 ‘El diablo dijo no. 1943.jpg’ -rw-r–r– 1 user user 2066396474 ene 2 19:28 ‘El diablo dijo no. 1943.mkv’ -rw-r–r– 1 user user 136564 ene 2 10:43 ‘El disputado voto del señor Cayo. 1985.jpg’ -rw-r–r– 1 user user 1777303444 ene 2 19:32 ‘El disputado voto del señor Cayo. 1985.mkv’ -rw-r–r– 1 user user 1856114688 ene 2 20:00 ‘El estado de la unión. 1948.avi’ -rw-r–r– 1 user user 80461 ene 2 09:39 ‘El estado de la unión. 1948.jpg’ -rw-r–r– 1 user user 68861 ene 2 08:54 ‘El manantial. 1949.jpg’ -rw-r–r– 1 user user 2460711108 ene 2 18:29 ‘El manantial. 1949.mkv’ -rw-r–r– 1 user user 2026502144 ene 2 19:35 ‘En un lugar solitario. 1950.avi’ -rw-r–r– 1 user user 97493 ene 2 09:26 ‘En un lugar solitario. 1950.jpg’

We enter in the directory with

cd /Films/7

We add the directory movie information to the database automatically, with the following command

mymoviebook –insert

If we need other parameters to connect to our database we can use them too.

We can add as many directories as we want.

If our latex is working (pdflatex command is needed), after executing

mymoviebook –generate –output /home/user/mymoviebook.pdf

we get our movie collection book. This is the .

Links

Doxygen documentation:

http://turulomio.users.sourceforge.net/doxygen/mymoviebook/

Pypi web page:

https://pypi.org/project/mymoviebook/

Dependencies

• https://www.python.org/, as the main programming language.

• https://pypi.org/project/colorama/, to give console colors.

• https://www.latex-project.org/, to generate PDF documents

• https://github.com/turulomio/officegenerator/, to generate ODT documents (Beta)

Changelog

1.4.0

• Captured error pressing CTRL+C

• Improved documentation and spanish translation

1.3.0

• Added the number of films in report for each year. Fixes #12.

• Now fimaffinity url is correctly encoded from name. Fixes #14.

• Printing film title shows the year too

• Added –createdb parameter to create a new database and load schema. Fixes #8.

1.2.1

• Added png to MANIFEST

1.2.0

• Spanish translation finished

• Removed table of contents from book

• Added filmaffinity querys clicking in covers

1.1.0

• Add cover to the generated book

• Removing large objects from database. Covers are now in a bytes field.

• Added database update system

• Changed project icons

• Improved gettext translations

• Basic ODT format support

1.0.0

• Created a python package from my pdffilms.py script

0.10.0

• Added the number of films in the list.

0.9.0

• Fixed alphabetical sorting

• Added refs to DVD from individual films