dbprv.MultiMediaHelpers

Powershell module with various functions for working with multimedia files.

Links

• https://github.com/dbprv/dbprv.MultiMediaHelpers
• https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/dbprv.MultiMediaHelpers

Features

• create .nfo files for Kodi for movies, TV shows
• search information on Kinopoisk, TMDB
• search trailers on TMDB, Youtube
• parse complex file/directory name to title, year, etc.
• search by reverse transliterated titles from english to russian

Configure

• create config, see example

• set environmet variable MMH_CONFIG_PATH = config path

• get API key for kinopoisk.dev from https://api.kinopoisk.dev/documentation

• set environmet variable KINOPOISK_API_KEY = this API key
  OR directly in config:

  Kinopoisk:
    ApiKey: '...'

• get TMDB Access Token https://www.themoviedb.org/settings/api

• set environmet variable TMDB_ACCESS_TOKEN = this access token
  OR directly in config:

  Tmdb:
    AccessToken: '...'

Some trailers from TMDB info may be already deleted or not available for your country. To search and validate trailers on Youtube:

• go to https://console.developers.google.com
• create project
• select "ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES"
• select "YouTube Data API v3", Enable
• press "CREATE CREDENTIALS", select "Public data"
• save API key somewhere
• optionally - restrict API key: select "Credentials" - select your new API key - API restrictions - Restrict key - YouTube Data API v3 - Save
• set environmet variable YOUTUBE_API_KEY = this API key
  OR directly in config:

Youtube:
  ...
  ApiKey: '...'
  Region: RU

• set "Region" (2 letters, as country domain) - it is used to validate if video is available for your country

Powershell Functions

Create-KodiMoviesNfo

Create .nfo files for Kodi media player for movies and TV series.

Information about movies is obtained from:

• Kinopoisk via API https://api.kinopoisk.dev
• TMDB

Usage:

For movies:

Create-KodiMoviesNfo -Folder 'D:\Video\Movies' -ContentType 'Movie'

For TV shows:

Create-KodiMoviesNfo -Folder 'D:\Video\TVShows' -ContentType 'TVShow'

Required params:

• Folder - folder with media files
• ContentType - Movie | TVShow

Additional params:

• SaveInfo - save internal info and logs to <Folder>\.media_info dir

Check-KodiNfo

Check nfo-files in media dir:

• show common list
• TMDB ID not found
• no trailer

Usage:

Check-KodiNfo -Folder 'D:\Video\Movies'

Export-KodiNfoCsv

Export info from Kodi nfo-files to CSV.

Usage:

Export-KodiNfoCsv -Folders 'D:\Video\Movies', 'D:\Video\Movies2' -ResultPath 'D:\Video\Movies.csv'

Troubleshooting

Name of TV series is incorrect

Add file mmh.txt to TV series dir. Set file content:

tvshow name year

Alternatives

• https://github.com/fracpete/kodi-nfo-generator

• https://nfo-maker.com

• MediaElch
  https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=136333
  https://github.com/komet/mediaelch stars 766

• Media Companion
  https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=129134
  https://sourceforge.net/p/mediacompanion/wiki/Home

• https://www.reddit.com/r/tinyMediaManager
  https://www.tinymediamanager.org
  https://gitlab.com/tinyMediaManager/tinyMediaManager
  starts 196

• Ember Media Manager https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=195
  https://github.com/DanCooper/Ember-MM-Newscraper
  last chages - 2 years ago