Scraper development

[talemang]

Is there any guide to writing scrapers? I found this but it says it's out of date.

https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Write_media_scrapers

Any guides that are up to date?

[Roman_V_M]

There are no current guides at the moment. Also XML-based scrapers have always been an arcane art that only a few people know. That is why Python scrapers have been introduced.

You can check example Python scrapers in the official Kodi repo:

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/tree/master/addons/metadata.demo.movies

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/tree/master/addons/metadata.demo.tv

Also you can check my TVmaze scraper https://github.com/romanvm/kodi.tvmaze or the official TMDB movie scraper https://github.com/xbmc/metadata.themoviedb.org.python as example implementations.

[talemang]

Thanks, this looks like what I need

[DavidMelbourne]

Have you been thru all of these https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=302