HTPC and anime, possible?

[iakovl]

right now i'm considering starting to use dedicated HTPC software like XMBC and BOXEE and i started to wonder...
do they (or other) have a plug-in or feature for anime that works like the IMDB plugs that take data from it and show it about the movies/tv shows you have on your pc.

[geoffreak]

Plex has a plugin for thetvdb.com for metadata, so I assume other versions of XBMC can or do as well. I have personally made sure that some of the more obscure anime are in the database, but the mainstream is always added quickly.

[kureshii]

XBMC has scrapers for TheTVDB, IMDB etc and music videos as well. I can't remember the full list, but one can always just take a look in the software itself Too bad AniDB's scraping rules are strict so there's hardly any work being done on releasing an AniDB scraper.

[DaggerLite]

Too bad AniDB's scraping rules are strict so there's hardly any work being done on releasing an AniDB scraper.

Perhaps if someone offered to host a/some server/-s. ;p

[geoffreak]

I'll leave Anime Bite open for scraping once it can afford the extra bandwidth

[halfelite]

I'll leave Anime Bite open for scraping once it can afford the extra bandwidth

If you do it the same way as imdb and let people either access the db itself or an xml version bandwidth is not much unless they are scrapping pictures. its the way to go.

[kureshii]

I'll leave Anime Bite open for scraping once it can afford the extra bandwidth

If you do it the same way as imdb and let people either access the db itself or an xml version bandwidth is not much unless they are scrapping pictures. its the way to go.

People are eventually going to ask for picture-scraping, LOL. A lot of scrapedbs out there start out small, but eventually end up adding thumbnail, movie poster etc image-scraping support. But for now, if anyone is setting up a scrapedb specifically for anime, just text/data-scraping would be really good already.

Not saying it has to be implemented now, I'm just saying be prepared to scale eventually, because people will ask for it.

[Mcgreag]

There is one for Mediaportal called MyAnime 2. But Mediaportal is only available for windows. Doesn't mean you can't set up a dedicated htpc box.
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,35/func,fileinfo/id,1815/

It gets data including posters (with permission) from anidb and fanart from thetvdb.

[halfelite]

I'll leave Anime Bite open for scraping once it can afford the extra bandwidth

If you do it the same way as imdb and let people either access the db itself or an xml version bandwidth is not much unless they are scrapping pictures. its the way to go.

People are eventually going to ask for picture-scraping, LOL. A lot of scrapedbs out there start out small, but eventually end up adding thumbnail, movie poster etc image-scraping support. But for now, if anyone is setting up a scrapedb specifically for anime, just text/data-scraping would be really good already.

Not saying it has to be implemented now, I'm just saying be prepared to scale eventually, because people will ask for it.

That is true. But if you let text/meta be scrapped from the db or an xml it would cut down bw from people scrapping the html for it. then scrap the pictures the same way tvdb does with a http link from the xml.