Simple Movie Catalog

Simple Movie Catalog is an open source software that will scan a given directory for movies, query IMDB for info and generate a catalog in HTML which offers sorting, filtering and grouping of found movies by different criteria.

Install Instructions:

Unpack, edit config.txt and run:

 perl moviecat.pl -c config.txt

Open report/movies.html with your favorite browser.

What is new in this release:

• This version updates IMDB rating and adds minor fixes and improvements.

What is new in version 1.9.0:

• This version adds updates for IMDB site changes and removes deprecated use of goto in Perl.

What is new in version 1.7.0:

• new options: -origtitle and -deftitle -origtitle will use the original instead of the regional title
• better unicode handling
• improved search for series
• minor search improvement for movies with () in title
• minor black and white theme update (by Roni Laukkarinen)

What is new in version 1.5.0:

• Parsing was updated to handle new IMDB HTML formatting.
• Support for series was improved.
• Automatic matching when no year is present in the filename was improved.
• The cache time was increased to 90 days.

What is new in version 1.4.0:

• Bugfix: updated parsing of new imdb html (plot, runtime, genre)
• New option:
• cachedays Number of days to cache pages [default: 30]

What is new in version 1.3.3:

• Fixed problem if perl path contained spaces
• Recognize .ts media files
• Better HiDef detection
• Fixed -ext option

What is new in version 1.3.2:

• Added -aka option to enable searching for non english titles
• Improved genre filter logic depending on the amount of genres selected...
• match all if more than half selected
• match any if less than half selected

What is new in version 1.3.1:

• More control over tags order and default state with the options -tagorder and -tagstate.
• Links to trailers, youtube, and rottentomatoes for each movie.
• Custom links can be added with the -link option.

What is new in version 1.3.0:

• This release adds the ability to tag movies and then use these tags in the report filtering.
• Tags are assigned automatically based on IMDB movie type, path matching, and movie matching, and can also be user defined.
• This release adds also an option to specify additional media file extensions as well as recognition of the ratdvd and tivo media file types.

Requirements:

• Perl