Thanks for your response Sebastian. Apart from the possible problems you've mentioned, I see the following as well: 1. Many people would keep movies and such on external media - like external HDD. In that case, the analysis needs to be done on a on-need basis - when the HDD is connected. Even in that case, parsing through a 1TB HD to find and analyze movie files is not practical. 2. IMDb explicitly forbids storing the results (except for website caching) in any medium. So a static analyzer or cached results in any form is a strict no.
Any other solutions? I was hoping that Dolphin APIs would allow for writing extensions like these. On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Sebastian Dörner < sebast...@sebastian-doerner.de> wrote: > I think the general way to do this is to write a strigi analyzer. > Strigi is a service running in the background indexing your files. > This information is stored in Nepomuk and that is where Dolphin gets > the information from. I guess that in theory the strigi analyzer could > fetch data from the internet as well. However, I am not an expert in > this area, so there might be some obstacles like (just guesses): > > - strigi analyzer cannot / should not fetch from the network (probably > at least not without user consent) > - privacy implications of automatically retrieving meta data about all > the files on your HD > > Things to search for: > - Shared Desktop Ontologies: These are used by Nepomuk. The meta data > would need to fit into the scheme, or the scheme extended. > - Strigi, Nepomuk > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Writing_file_analyzers > > Hope that gives some starting points. > > Regards > Seb > > > On 11 June 2012 18:43, Srikanth S <srikant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am very new to this, though I've been wanting to contribute to the OSS > > community for quiet some time. > > > > The first thing I wanted to create was to solve one of the problems that > I > > frequently face - i have a movies directory (actually many, and each one > > pretty dynamic too), having a list of subdirectories or files each > > representing a movie. I want to know the IMDb/rottentomatoes details of > each > > of those movies. And ideally, i'd want that information as a tooltip when > > hovering over the movie file :) > > > > I am fairly well-versed with programming and software development, but > I've > > worked only in JavaSE/EE stack. > > > > My question was, is something like this doable on Dolphin? I did a quick > > search to see if there is any API available for the same, but couldn't > find > > it. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > > > > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to > unsubscribe > >>> << > > > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to > unsubscribe << >
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