Music Fanart Scraper tool

[meowmoo]

hi there
anybody out there with the knowledge of making a simple music fanart scraper?!
I'm thinking of a tool like AlbumArtDownloader http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/

its possible to grap them from http://www.htbackdrops.com/index.php
XBMC do it, you can click on a artist hit the "look for fanart" button and it will show you all the fanart it found, click on a fanart and it get save to a folder inside xbmc, the only problem is the files get named like 7aee62cc.tbn so have to renamed them to .jpg to see witch artist it is and than put it in the album folder and rename it fanart, thats more work then browsing the htbackdrops.com manully

here is the code from the htbackdrops scraper xml

Code:

<scraperfunctions>
    <GetHTBThumbs dest="5">
        <RegExp input="$$13" output="&lt;details&gt;\1&lt;/details&gt;" dest="5">
            <RegExp input="$$1" output="&lt;thumb preview=&quot;http://www.htbackdrops.com/data/thumbnails/\2&quot;&gt;http://www.htbackdrops.com/data/media/\2&lt;/thumb&gt;" dest="13">
                <expression noclean="1" repeat="yes">&lt;td.*?mode=search(&amp;amp;sessionid=[^&quot;]*)?&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;./data/thumbnails/([^&quot;]+)&quot;.*?&lt;br&gt;Music Artist Thumbnails&lt;br&gt;.*?&lt;/td&gt;</expression>
            </RegExp>
            <expression noclean="1"/>
        </RegExp>
    </GetHTBThumbs>
    <GetHTBFanart dest="5">
        <RegExp input="$$13" output="&lt;details&gt;&lt;fanart url=&quot;http://www.htbackdrops.com/&quot;&gt;\1&lt;/fanart&gt;&lt;/details&gt;" dest="5">
            <RegExp input="$$1" output="&lt;thumb preview=&quot;data/thumbnails/\2&quot;&gt;data/media/\2&lt;/thumb&gt;" dest="13">
                <expression noclean="1" repeat="yes">&lt;td.*?mode=search(&amp;amp;sessionid=[^&quot;]*)?&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;./data/thumbnails/([^&quot;]+)&quot;.*?&lt;br&gt;Music Artist Backdrops&lt;br&gt;.*?&lt;/td&gt;</expression>
            </RegExp>
            <expression noclean="1"/>
        </RegExp>
    </GetHTBFanart>
</scraperfunctions>

I'm sure, Im not the only one how will like to see something like this :>

[rgollar]

I know the new music flow does right now exactly what your asking.

(02-18-2010 02:37 AM)meowmoo Wrote:  hi there
anybody out there with the knowledge of making a simple music fanart scraper?!
I'm thinking of a tool like AlbumArtDownloader http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/

its possible to grap them from http://www.htbackdrops.com/index.php
XBMC do it, you can click on a artist hit the "look for fanart" button and it will show you all the fanart it found, click on a fanart and it get save to a folder inside xbmc, the only problem is the files get named like 7aee62cc.tbn so have to renamed them to .jpg to see witch artist it is and than put it in the album folder and rename it fanart, thats more work then browsing the htbackdrops.com manully

here is the code from the htbackdrops scraper xml

Code:

<scraperfunctions>
    <GetHTBThumbs dest="5">
        <RegExp input="$$13" output="&lt;details&gt;\1&lt;/details&gt;" dest="5">
            <RegExp input="$$1" output="&lt;thumb preview=&quot;http://www.htbackdrops.com/data/thumbnails/\2&quot;&gt;http://www.htbackdrops.com/data/media/\2&lt;/thumb&gt;" dest="13">
                <expression noclean="1" repeat="yes">&lt;td.*?mode=search(&amp;amp;sessionid=[^&quot;]*)?&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;./data/thumbnails/([^&quot;]+)&quot;.*?&lt;br&gt;Music Artist Thumbnails&lt;br&gt;.*?&lt;/td&gt;</expression>
            </RegExp>
            <expression noclean="1"/>
        </RegExp>
    </GetHTBThumbs>
    <GetHTBFanart dest="5">
        <RegExp input="$$13" output="&lt;details&gt;&lt;fanart url=&quot;http://www.htbackdrops.com/&quot;&gt;\1&lt;/fanart&gt;&lt;/details&gt;" dest="5">
            <RegExp input="$$1" output="&lt;thumb preview=&quot;data/thumbnails/\2&quot;&gt;data/media/\2&lt;/thumb&gt;" dest="13">
                <expression noclean="1" repeat="yes">&lt;td.*?mode=search(&amp;amp;sessionid=[^&quot;]*)?&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;./data/thumbnails/([^&quot;]+)&quot;.*?&lt;br&gt;Music Artist Backdrops&lt;br&gt;.*?&lt;/td&gt;</expression>
            </RegExp>
            <expression noclean="1"/>
        </RegExp>
    </GetHTBFanart>
</scraperfunctions>

I'm sure, Im not the only one how will like to see something like this :>

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I know the new music flow does this right now exactly what your asking.

[meowmoo]

do you mean Music Video Flow?

cant find music flow anywhere :/

[rgollar]

check this link out and it on this site.

http://www.indocomp.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=45

[mvdlaan]

Hi meowmoo,

(02-18-2010 02:37 AM)meowmoo Wrote:  hi there
anybody out there with the knowledge of making a simple music fanart scraper?!
I'm thinking of a tool like AlbumArtDownloader http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/

its possible to grap them from http://www.htbackdrops.com/index.php
XBMC do it, you can click on a artist hit the "look for fanart" button and it will show you all the fanart it found, click on a fanart and it get save to a folder inside xbmc, the only problem is the files get named like 7aee62cc.tbn so have to renamed them to .jpg to see witch artist it is and than put it in the album folder and rename it fanart, thats more work then browsing the htbackdrops.com manully

...

I'm sure, Im not the only one how will like to see something like this :>

I'm working on a HTB scraper to be integrated in MediaMonkey, the music manager that I currently use. Currently fit for my personal use, but I'm planning on making it more mature and more integrated in MM.

But I am balancing my time between that, my other hobbies, work and family...

mvdlaan

[michael1t]

Hello meowmoo,

Yes he does Mean Music Video Flow ...

But the same Scrapper in Music Video Flow will be in Music Flow once it is released ...

But that will not be until after Music Video Flow is released ...
and it is in beta right NOW ...

Michael T.

[meowmoo]

thanks guy's,

I see i have to be a bit more patiently

[dolph]

(02-21-2010 02:30 PM)meowmoo Wrote:  thanks guy's,

I see i have to be a bit more patiently

I've been having a quick look into this and have found two tools that sort of do the job for you (but by no means perfectly yet!)

Should state my aim is to use this in MPDJB.

The first and easiest is mediainfoplus - which can scrape fanart and save into the artist directory one "fanart" per artist (dir structure = artist/album) - this doeasn't pick up artists in compilations (although MPDJB can't use this yet anyway)

The other is to install mediaportal and the fanarthandler add-in. Once you have set up the Mediaportal database the plugin scrapes all artists and puts all files (multiple fanart by artist) into a single directory with a standard naming convention - my plan is to intially use this and a little script to then copy these files to the right place in my music structure.

What is interesting with the above is that with a change in coding in MPDJB you could actually keep a "central" fanart directory and get MPDJB to use the artist info per track to use fanart even with compilations.

All a little OT but an interesting start.

[chris57]

I do think that's there's a bit of a gap for a really good music jukebox or even skin for one of the existing ones that incorporates fanart. Have to be free though for it to take over from my number one recommendation for music, Music Jukebox.

[eozen81]

IMO, a user selected Fanart Scraper tool would be awesome, hope to see it.

[meowmoo]

wandidj told me that MJ will scrap fanart in the future, if all go's well the user could select the fanart he want

[chris57]

scrap = scrape I take it