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HTPC and anime, possible?
halfelite:
--- Quote from: geoffreak on January 08, 2010, 04:51:37 AM ---I'll leave Anime Bite open for scraping once it can afford the extra bandwidth
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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:
--- Quote from: halfelite on January 08, 2010, 07:31:19 AM ---
--- Quote from: geoffreak on January 08, 2010, 04:51:37 AM ---I'll leave Anime Bite open for scraping once it can afford the extra bandwidth
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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.
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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:
--- Quote from: kureshii on January 08, 2010, 07:40:32 AM ---
--- Quote from: halfelite on January 08, 2010, 07:31:19 AM ---
--- Quote from: geoffreak on January 08, 2010, 04:51:37 AM ---I'll leave Anime Bite open for scraping once it can afford the extra bandwidth
--- End quote ---
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.
--- End quote ---
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.
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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.
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