XBMC Library Updater

[kLAcK]

Here is a simple script I wrote to automatically update your XBMC library when a download is complete.

Create these two files in the following directories:

C:\Program Files\sabnzbd\updatelibrary.scr

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open 192.168.0.110
username
password
literal site updatelibrary(video)
quit 

Replace with your XBMC IP address and username and password

C:\Program Files\sabnzbd\scripts\updatelibrary.cmd

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ftp -s:updatelibrary.scr

Prerequisites:

• Assign a static IP to XBMC, and enable FTP
• Setup Categories in SAB, enter a unique download folder for TV and one for Movies
• i.e. D:\Video\TV and D:\Video\Movies
• In XBMC assign a media type to the TV folder and Movies folder

Now every time you download a TV show or Movie, it will automatically be added to your XBMC library.  If you don't keep your Xbox on all the time, turn on the "Update library at startup" feature.

[evidenceunseen]

Could this be adapted for use on XBMC Linux? Have the option to run on the linux pc that sabnzbd is on as well.

[kLAcK]

Yes I'm sure it can.  I don't know the linux commands however.  All this script does is log into the XBMC ftp server and send one command.

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literal site updatelibrary(video)

[evidenceunseen]

I didn't know you could send commands via ftpp to XBMC, doesn't the web server allow you to update the library?

[kLAcK]

I don't think the webserver does.  That was my first aproach on building this script.  There are a whole bunch of commands that the ftp server supports though, check them out on the wiki.

[evidenceunseen]

Apparently the web server does support library updates through XBMC.builtinfunction. Here is the command that would update the video library:

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http://xbmcaddress/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn&parameter=XBMC.updatelibrary(video)

Does anyone know how I can execute this in a shell or python script? (without opening a browser)

[ju1ced]

Apparently the web server does support library updates through XBMC.builtinfunction. Here is the command that would update the video library:

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http://xbmcaddress/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn&parameter=XBMC.updatelibrary(video)

Does anyone know how I can execute this in a shell or python script? (without opening a browser)

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wget http://xbmcaddress/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn&parameter=XBMC.updatelibrary(video) >/dev/null 2>&1

[deepblue]

Here's the full python script if anyone is looking for it, just put this in a .py file and call it from the .cmd file:

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import urllib

urllib.urlopen("xbmcaddress/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn&parameter=XBMC.updatelibrary(video)").close()

Thanks to the posters here for putting this out here, works a treat!

[stanpete]

Cool, thanks.
Here's one that works with OSX just in case:

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curl --get "http://xbmcaddress/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn&parameter=XBMC.updatelibrary(video)"

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[JayBird]

Cool, thanks.
Here's one that works with OSX just in case:

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curl --get "http://xbmcaddress/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn&parameter=XBMC.updatelibrary(video)"

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That works great when i run it from the terminal, but how would i go about creating a script from this that i can get SABnzbd to run when the downloads complete.

Thanks

[stanpete]

That is easy - all you need is a simple text editor.
I'd reccomend that you get NovoEdit or some other free editor since Apple's TextEdit doesn't work that well with
shell scripts and you don't seem to have much experience with unix tools.

OK, so
1) Get and run NovoEdit
2) Copy this to a new file

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#!/bin/sh
curl --get "http://xbmcaddress/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn&parameter=XBMC.updatelibrary(video)"

Where xbmcaddress is of course your ip:port

3) Save file with ".sh" extension
4) Copy it to your scripts folder
5) Go to Terminal, enter "chmod 755 /sciptfolder/script.sh"
    Whith the real location and name of your script.

Hope this helps.
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[JayBird]

Thanks mate, i appreciate that 

[interfacelift]

Here's one that works with OSX just in case:

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curl --get "http://xbmcaddress/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn&parameter=XBMC.updatelibrary(video)"

Works great with Plex (a Mac OS X fork of XBMC). Thanks!

[thaylok]

Great tip! 

[bigdaddyo811]

I get the following error:

External processing by /users/MCM/Library/Scripts/plexscript.sh:
nice: /users/MCM/Library/Scripts/plexscript.sh: Permission denied

1. What permission is being denied and to what?
2. How do I fix it?

Thanks