Mezzmo Artwork Checker

A utility to help you manage your Mezzmo actor / actress artwork files.

Features:

• Now available in both native Python and Windows x64 EXE formats ^New
• Pulls an actor listing from Mezzmo and normalizes it for comparison to poster and UserPoster
• Inserts Mezzmo actor records and normalized records into actorArtwork table
• Pulls UserPoster listing and inserts file into userPosterFile table
• Updates Mezzmo actorArtwork table if there is a UserPoster file match
• Pulls Poster listing and inserts file posterFile table
• Updates Mezzmo actorArtwork table if there is a Poster file match
• CSV export option
• Artwork size is fixed 300x450 (WxH) pixels. User selectable sizing is being explored.
• Last checked tracking and status to keep track of your images.
• Option to retrieve missing artwork images from both TMDB and IMDB via TV-API.
• Command line option to mark images as bad and won't attempt downloading again.
• Additional Bad Images folder where bad images can be drug and will be marked as bad.
• Create NFO, artwork and extras information files for movies to import into Mezzmo. (New)
• Logfile to help with troubleshooting. (New)

Installation and usage:

• Download the Mezzmo Artwork Checker zipfile

• Unzip file into an empty folder on your system

• Ensure you have Python installed on Windows or Linux. Preferably version 3.x

• Edit the config.text file with the location of your Mezzmo database and artwork. You can add an optional TV-API Key for additional image artwork checking. Adjust query TMDB / IMDB query counts. Maximum is 1000 per run of the Mezzmo Artwork Checker. It is suggested to leave the query counts at 30 for the first image fetch to ensure everything is working and then increase it up to as high as 1000.

• Open a command window (if Windows) and run mezzmo_actor.py
  See optional command line arguments below.
  No arguments runs the actor artwork checker normally
  

• Recommended usage sequence is:

  • run mezzmo_actor.py
  • run mezzmo_actor.py images
  • Review images in TMDB and IMDB folders
  • Move bad images to "bad images" folder
  • Move good images to your Mezzmo \UserPoster folder
  • run mezzmo_actor.py bad

• To create NFO files:

  • run mezzmo_actor.py nfo

Command line arguments: (Limit 1 at a time)

• clean - Clears all table records in the mezzmo_artwork.db database
• csv - Runs the Mezzmo Artwork checker normallly but also outputs
  the actorArtwork table to a CSV file actorartwork.csv .
• noactor- Creates a CSV file with Mezzmo information for actors not
  found in TMDB or IMDB
• noactor all- Creates a CSV file with Mezzmo information for actors not
  found in TMDB or IMDB and creates CSV file of all movies with matching actors. and a CSV file of all movies with matching actors .
• images - Attempts to fetch missing artwork images from TMDB and IMDB (See readme.txt)
  An optional number can be entered to override the config.txt file settings.
  - Example: mezzmo_actor.py images 100 (Perform 100 TMDB image queries)
• bad name - Marks actor image file from IMDB as bad so it won't be fecthed again.
  - Example: mezzmo_actor.py bad john-doe (file extension is optional)
• bad - Without any additonal arguments processes the "bad images" folder
• nfo - NFO menu to create and scrape nfo files

The CSV export utility currently requires Python version 3 or higher.