mov

mov is a command-line application to browse your movie collection.

• List movies: mov ls | less
• List specific movies: mov ls the godfather
• Play a movie: mov play the godfather

Setup

You can run the following command to download and install mov on a Unix system.

bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.github.com/hph/mov/master/setup.sh)

Usage

We will assume that ~/Movies is a directory containing subdirectories, themselves containing movies and related files, e.g., running tree ~/Movies should show something like this:

~/Movies
├── 12 Angry Men
│   └── 12 Angry Men.mkv
├── 2001 - A Space Odyssey
│   └── 2001 - A Space Odyssey.mkv
...

First you will have to create a database of your movies:

mov create ~/Movies

Now watch a movie:

mov play odyssey

Run mov -h to show what else you can do.

Unix trickery

mov is desinged in such a way as to be usable with standard Unix utilities.

• Run mov ls | less to browse a large number of movies more comfortably. You can use j to go down and k to go up. Use /pattern to search for a movie.
• Run mov ls --name | wc -l to count the number of movies in your database.
• Run mov ls | grep pattern to search for "pattern".
• Run mov ls -S --prefix G | awk '{s += $1} END {print s}' to show the total size of the movie collection in gibibytes.

Available commands and options

Usage:
  mov create [options] DIRECTORY ...
  mov update [options] DIRECTORY ...
  mov destroy [options]
  mov ls [options] [PATTERN ...]
  mov play [options] [PATTERN ...]
  mov -h | --help
  mov --version

Commands:
  create               Create a new database with information about the films
                       in the specified directory or directories.
  update               Update an existing database. Old items that are not
                       found are deleted.
  destroy              Destroy a database.
  ls                   List movies and relevant metadata optionally only
                       showing those that match a specified pattern.
  play                 Open the first matching movie with a media player.

Options:
  --database=DATABASE  Database to save film metadata [default: ~/.mov.db].
  --force              Do not prompt for a confirmation upon database
                       destruction.
  -s, --strict         Only show exact matches.
  -n, --name           Only show the name of the movie.
  -l, --location       Only show the location of the movie.
  -S, --size           Only show the size of the movie.
  -f, --files          Only show the files of the movie.
  --prefix=PREFIX      Size prefix, one of none, k, M, G or T [default: None].
  --player=PLAYER      Media player to open movies with [default: vlc].
  -h, --help           Show this help message and exit.
  --version            Show version.

To do

• Improve the way data is displayed.
• Use IMDbPy to retrieve information about movies.
• Allow marking movies as seen or unseen.
• Add rating movies.
• Implement a watchlist (mark as "watch this").
• Use SQLAlchemy to build a movies model for a better API.
• Search for and get magnet to download movies.
• Show statistics: number of movies, total size, formats, etc.