moviefy

a movie overview generator for Node.js

You have a big collection of movies and everytime you want to watch one of them, you don't know which to choose.

What was the plot of this one?

And when you want to watch a movie with a friend, you don't want to tell them every storyline you remember. But you don't want to google every movie title and search for a good description and other information.

That's why I created the little command line tool moviefy. It queries the iTunes API and generates an overview file for your movies.

Installation

Run

$ npm install moviefy -g

to install this script globally on your machine.

File organisation

Your movie files need to be in the following folder structure:

my-movies/
|
|- Finding Nemo/
|  |- Finding Nemo.mov
|
|- Up/
|  |- Up.mp4
|
|- Mission Impossible/
|  |- AUDIO TS
|  |- VIDEO TS
|
...

where my-movies is the folder with all your movies and every movie is in its own subfolder. That has two reasons:

the tool works file extension independant: You can store your movies in any file format, even as a copy of a DVD (like Mission Impossible above)
caching: The tool will cache information about a movie in its folder. This way, you can change its information just by editing a json file.

Notice

moviefy will use the folder name of the movie, NOT its title! So name the folders well.

Usage

Navigate to my-movies(the folder with all your movies inside of it) and run

moviefy

This will trigger the iTunes API with every movie title and generates a HTML document with an overview of your movies in the my-movies folder.

The resulting file can then be opened inside of your browser.

Options and Commands

reset

With $ moviefy reset you can delete the info.json file for every movie. This is useful when you chose the wrong language and you want to recreate your info.json files.

language

You can choose the language for the description by using the --language [lang] or its shortcut -l [lang] where [lang] is the ISO code for your country.

Default is US.

output name

You can choose the output for the resulting HTML page by using the --output [name] or its shortcut -o [name] where [name] is the name for the output file. For example: If you want to have a filme.html instead of movies.html, you run this:

$ moviefy -o filme

Default is movies.

template

You can choose a template by specify its name.

At the moment, there are two templates: list (default) and poster

Template: list

moviefy -t list

Template: poster

moviefy -t poster

After you click on a tile:

konstantinkobs/moviefy