Templates for Individual Item metadata?

[justinxfisher]

First, I may just have missed this somewhere as it's difficult to search the wiki for "movie", "metadata" and "template", but is there a way to make a template for movie/tv (non-collection) metadata? For example, this works:

  "Aladdin -- 1992":
    year: 1992
    url_poster: https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/217207
    title: Aladdin
    sort_title: Aladdin_01
  "Aladdin -- 2019":
    year: 2019
    url_poster: https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/44740
    title: Aladdin
    sort_title: Aladdin_02

...but this doesn't:

templates:
 individual:                           # template: { name: individual, yr: , at: , st: , posterdb: }
   optional:
   - yr
   - tt
   - st
   - at
   - posterdb
   year: <<yr>>
   url_poster: https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/<<posterdb>>
   title: <<tt>>
   sort_title: <<st>>
   alt_title: <<at>>
metadata:
  "Aladdin -- 1992":
    template: { name: individual, at: Aladdin, st: Aladdin_01, yr: 1992, posterdb: 217207 }
  "Aladdin -- 2019":
    template: { name: individual, at: Aladdin, st: Aladdin_02, yr: 2019, posterdb: 44740 }

To be honest, I had just sort of assumed it would work and was surprised when I started getting errors while running it.

[meisnate12]

it doesn't work because it doesn't really save you anything you still have to declare all those attributes

like this is valid

metadata:
  "Aladdin -- 1992": 
    alt_title: Aladdin
    sort_title: Aladdin_01
    year: 1992
    url_poster: https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/217207
  "Aladdin -- 2019":
    alt_title: Aladdin
    sort_title: Aladdin_02
    year: 2019
    url_poster: https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/44740

and if you just want it shorter this is also valid (the URLs need to be inside of "s because it had the character : in the URL.)

metadata:
  "Aladdin -- 1992": { alt_title: Aladdin, sort_title: Aladdin_01, year: 1992, url_poster: "https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/217207" }
  "Aladdin -- 2019": { alt_title: Aladdin, sort_title: Aladdin_02, year: 2019, url_poster: "https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/44740" }

[justinxfisher]

Ok yeah, it was mostly just trying to minimize lines as i have just under 1000 movies I wanted to set metadata for, i'll go with that one liner you provided. Thanks!

[justinxfisher]

Follow up question...

I thought this might be related to the URL quoting you mentioned, but after quoting URLs for the entires I have url_poster set for, the posters are not being downloaded to my assets directory. They are being updated in Plex, the folders are being created, but assets are not being saved. I do have download_url_assets: true set in settings: in config.yml, as well as tried having it set under the individual libraries in config.yml.

Everything I have under collections: is being downloaded - studios, decades, genres, etc., just not these individual entry assets.

Edit:

Ok so the above about all my collections: being downloaded isn't actually accurate, I have about 4 TV entires that will download the collections: posters and that's it. The other ones that are being downloaded are coming from the MovieCharts.yml. I'm guessing I have something wrong somewhere in my config, something that's an opposite of/canceling out another setting.