Rock, Paper, Sand! is a text-based media tracker for TV shows, movies, books, plays, and other types of media. It supports advanced filtering for things like showing which media is available for free at home (from streaming services, physical copies, or whatever else), which is available elsewhere (e.g., at the library or in a theater), and which is unavailable.
For an example of what it can do, see an example config file, the output from that config file, and other examples in the same directory. For more documentation on the config file format, see the schema definition.
- Install the protobuf compiler and pipx.
pipx install git+https://github.com/dseomn/rock-paper-sand.git
Rock, paper, and sand are all used in different types of physical filters, and filtering is one of the main focuses of this program.
- Keep track of done, partially done, and to-do media, including obscure media that isn't in public databases.
- Keep track of groups of media of different types. E.g., if you want to read a book series, watch the movie series and TV shows based on it, see the musical based on the first movie, and read the comic book continuation of the TV show, you can keep track of all of those in the same place.
- Filter that media based on:
- Whether it's done, partially done, or to-do.
- Whether it's fully released, ongoing, or unreleased, using data from Wikidata.
- What streaming services it's available on or if it's currently in theaters, using JustWatch's unofficial API. This filter also adds extra information to the output to show where the media is available, and if only some episodes are available, how many.
- Custom string field matching. E.g., you can put "borrow from the
library" in the
customAvailabilityfield, and filter on that to show media that's at the library (possibly excluding media that's also on a streaming service you have). Or you can put an archive.org URL for an old public domain movie, and include that in a filter for content that's available for free. Or you can include the release year in the media name, and filter on media released in a range of years. - Custom arbitrary JSON data matching, using JMESPath to select which data matches. The data can also optionally be validated with JSON Schema to catch typos.
- Logical combinations of any of the above, including
and,or, andnot.
- Group results by keys provided by filters. E.g., it's possible to filter for media on streaming services that you don't already have, and group the result by streaming service, in order to see which streaming service it might make sense to subscribe to.
- Find related media, using data from Wikidata. E.g., find out when a movie you liked has a new sequel/remake, or find the book it's based on. Or find all media within a media franchise or fictional universe.
- Print the results to the console in reports.
- Send email notifications when one of those reports changes.
- Enforce some conditions on the list of media. E.g., if you want to keep the list sorted, that can be checked automatically. Or if you want to make sure that all media has a name ending in " (YYYY)" where "YYYY" is the release year, you can do that too. (Doing that can help prevent bugs in filters that try to parse the media name.)
- Better support for filtering based on completeness. E.g., filtering for a TV show where all episodes are available, or filtering for a book series where the final book has already been released.
- Integration with public libraries' APIs if possible, to automatically find which media can be borrowed from the library.
- This has not been designed to be secure against malicious config files or state files. If you write your config file yourself and run the code locally, it should hopefully be fine. But if you want to integrate this code into a web application or something where multiple remote users can create config files that are used by the same local user, it might be worth thinking through the security implications first.
- See also a disclaimer about JustWatch's unofficial API.