award_playlists

This script creates a smart playlist from a list of award-nominees from IMDB. Sorted by number of nominations (ascending).

It parses the IMDBid from the webpage, looks them up in your own Kodi-movie-databse and uses the localized titles of the movies to create the smartplaylist. This is necessary, because some titles won't match in some languages.

Since your databse grows by the time (movies get added) you need to recreate the playlist every now and then. Only movies wich are present in your databse get added to the playlist.

dummy files

If you want to mark a movie as watched that is not in your databse, just create a dummy file that containes the string TRAILERONLY in the file name. This file should be a video file (like a downloaded trailer) so Kodi recognizes it as a video. Like: My.Movie.of.the.Year.2019.TRAILERONLY.mkv
Even if this movie is now technically in your database and can be marked as watched it will not be counted as such in this script.

Requirements

• edit the $USERDIR value so the script can find your MyVideoXX.db see: http://kodi.wiki/view/XBMC_databases#The_Video_Library
• install "sqlite3"

Batch command

If you want to create playlists for several previous years with one command you can use the batch_create_award_playlists.sh script. You can defibne a start and an end year and wich events wou want to generate.

./batch_create_award_playlists.sh 1990 2023 "a b ca cri e g i r sag sun a"

Docker

You can run this script in a Docker container. The container itself is actually running cron and you can add your cronjobs to update your playlists.

Build container

docker build . -t award_playlists

Run container

Here is an examplke how to start the container via CLI:

docker run \
  --name=awards_playlists \
  -v award_playlists-config:/app/conf \
  -v award_playlists-data:/app/dat \
  -v award_playlists-www:/www \
  -v award_playlists-log:/app/log \
  -v award_playlists-cron:/etc/crontabs \
  -v /storage/.kodi/userdata/Database:/kodi/userdata/Database:ro \
  -v /storage/.kodi/userdata/playlists/video:/kodi/userdata/playlists/video \
  -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
  -d \
  --restart=unless-stopped \
  award_playlists:latest

And a separat container for the web server

docker run \
  --name=awards_www \
  -v award_playlists-www:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro \
  -p 8081:80 \
  -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
  -d \
  --restart=unless-stopped \
  nginx:alpine

Docker volumes

There are several named volumes:

VOLUME /app/conf VOLUME /app/dat VOLUME /app/log VOLUME /kodi/userdata/Database VOLUME /kodi/userdata/playlists/video VOLUME /www VOLUME /etc/crontabs VOLUME /etc/msmtprc.d

To customize the configuration you need to create conf/custom.conf(copy from custom.conf.original).

/www is mountet as read-only in the web-Container, too.

Edit /etc/crontabs/root to add/edit/remove cronjobs.

Mail config

To send mails from inside the container you need to configure msmtp via the named volume /etc/msmtprc.d.

/etc/msmtprc.d/msmtprc:

# Set default values for all following accounts.
defaults
auth           on
tls            on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
syslog         on

# Gmail
account        gmail
host           smtp.gmail.com
port           587
from           sender@example.com
user           sender@example.com
password       <your_Secret>
domain         mydomain.example.com

# Set a default account
account default : gmail
aliases        /etc/msmtprc.d/aliases

/etc/msmtprc.d/aliases:

root: me@example.com

default: me@example.com