DjMovies is my personal movies organizer.
This is a django application that I started writing on April 1st 2013, to handle my private catalog of movies. In addition to catalog the movies, it exposes through its web interface multiple tools to handle them: homogenize video and audio formats, subtitles handling, etc.
DJMovies accesses external services, like IMDb to retrieve movie information, or Moviesubtitles.org to download subtitles.
Precisely this dependency on external services makes the project eternally unfinished. The access to the services scraps the information, but those services keep updating the appearance of their pages, requiring a regular update to the scraping process. Most of the changes implemented since 2014 relate exclusively to these updates.
As part of my process to stop using private repositories in my own VPSs, I am now making these repositories public. DJMovies is available from https://github.com/coderazzi/djmovies, and the data associated to my own catalog lives in a separate private repository, https://github.com/coderazzi/djmovies-userdata
I am quite astonished of the short time I have needed to migrate this application to the latest python version (3.13.1 as of today) and Django version (5.1.4), as I was using before Django 3.0.5. However, I have not tested the application in full, so additional changes will likely be required in the close future. Very specifically, the access to external services is likely not working now.
sudo apt-get install mediainfo unrar imagemagick libxml2-dev libxslt-dev zlib1g-dev ffmpeg mkvtoolnix
brew install mediainfo rar freetype imagemagick@6 ffmpeg
export MAGICK_HOME=/opt/homebrew/opt/imagemagick@6
git clone https://github.com/coderazzi/djmovies
cd djmovies
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
I keep my data in a private repository, so I can initialize the application doing:
git clone git@github.com:coderazzi/djmovies-userdata.git userdata
ln -sf ../../userdata/mov_imgs movies/static
Otherwise, it is needed to setup the initial database
mkdir -p userdata/mov_imgs
sqlite3 userdata/db_movies.sqlite < db_schema
ln -sf ../../userdata/mov_imgs movies/static
python3 ./manage.py migrate --fake
This userdata folder can then managed as a separate git repository
./go.sh
This will open a web page pointing out to http://127.0.0.1:8000