Spiders

[dgemily]

is there any chance of someone knocking up a dvd spider that uses amazon.co.uk instead of amazon.com?

1/2 the time i end up draging dvd covers from there instead of using the spider (dont get a match on .com)

dvd - amazon.co.uk.zip

[S Pittaway]

wayah, quick response to my first post

cheers

[GFORCE]

what about Gracenote CDDB?

[bazac]

Super job on the spiders !
Is there any way of showing the movie info with the coverart so that it to can be saved ???? currently i am having to use edit database

[dgemily]

Super job on the spiders !
Is there any way of showing the movie info with the coverart so that it to can be saved ???? currently i am having to use edit database

yep, a lot of skins use this fonction... ( there are some events to do it directly on a screen...)

[bazac]

which skins use this ? or which events ? cant seem to get it workin thanks for your help

[bazac]

Sorry might not of explained myself properly what i meant was is it possible to show the movie info whilst searching for the coverart, and when the spider finds the coverart the info displays aswell , then both coverart and info can be saved together with one push of a button. Hope this makes sense ??????

[dgemily]

I’m not sure if there is a skin using spiders for my movies covers + movies info but it's about the same way.
I think in the default skin, it use spiders for music covers, may be you can take a look on it.

anyway, to use spiders in a skin:

- create a category named spider ( you don't need to select any database for this category)
this category will display the list of results.

-to display information about the selected item in this category, use these variables:

category>spider>info
category>spider>cover

and you can also use as variables:
category>spider>from
category>spider>page

there is also an other parameter for the "spider status" : create a text zone with spiderstatus as text


* how to use spiders with events:

- first you need to create ( and execute an event)in the aim of selecting the database that you want updated and the spider(s) to use.
for that you have a command Xlobby:spider set
in category, put movies and in spiders put the name of your spider without extension
you can also use for example: dvd -* to use every spiders with a name starting by "dvd -"

- then, use an event with the command Xlobby:spider search

- to save info, there are 2 commands:
Xlobby:spider save to save the selected cover
and
Xlobby:spider save info to save information spider save info

last thing, use a text zone with button>input to display the "searching text" you can modify it using keyboard or virtual keyboard.

[dgemily]

what about Gracenote CDDB?

yep, I think we can build it but the result will not be very nice, there is a a problem using gracenote.com :
for your search, if there are more than 1 result, you will have the list of results then you select one of this to see details. that is good for "spiders".
but if there is only 1 result, you are redirected on the details page.

so I don't know how to deal with this....

also, you will not get cover on gracenote.com .....

[bazac]

Wicked !! works a treat thanks for your help much appriciated

[tswhite70]

Yes24.com - music spider (Korean):

Freebits started this spider to provide Korean language music covers. The spider can be downloaded here:

http://home.comcast.net/~twhite644/spid ... 24.com.zip

good luck,
tsw

[tswhite70]

Music coverart spiders for ElusiveDisc.com and SA-CD.net for those multichannel music fans:

Edit 06/30/2007: link & spiders updated
http://home.comcast.net/~twhite644/spiders/UpdatedMusicSpiders.zip

Good luck,
tsw

[hvs69]

tswhite,

I would like to thank you for taking time to do a write-up on the spiders. I had been begging for it for quite sometime.

I had been partially successful in writing the spider for a couple of Indian DVD websites (there is a thread somewhere in the forum). But, being not aware of all the subtle features of regex (especially .NET interpretation), I never got them to work 100 %. This will help me a great deal. You should cross-reference your post in the Document section of the forum too.

Thanks again.

[tswhite70]

hvs69 - Hope it helps with your development, there's definitely alot to learn about regex if you really want to dig into it.

I took your suggestion and put a crosspost over in the Documentation section.

Good luck!
tsw

[m_masta]

Hey tswhite,
Let me know if you can inspect the modified epguides spider I attempted to write here:
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... ght=#27939

it works, but I dont think it's very robust, some searches come up a little funky. I'd appreciate if you could take a look at it.

Thanks,
masta