Add-on:Artwork Downloader

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Artwork Downloader
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/eden-pre/script.artwork.downloader/icon.png

See this add-on on the kodi.tv showcase

Author: paddycarey, putneyj, Martijn

Type: Program
Repo:

Summary: Downloads Artwork for TV shows, Movies and Musicvideos in your library
Home icon grey.png   ▶ Add-ons ▶ Artwork Downloader

Downloads all available artwork for TV shows, Movies and Musicvideos in your library. Check the options for supported artwork

Artwork sources:
www.fanart.tv
www.thetvdb.com
www.themoviedb.org

Remark:
Check your skin to see what type of artwork is supported!
Each TV Show/Movie must have its own folder!

Skin integration:
See readme file

Installing

This add-on is installed from the Add-on browser located in Kodi as follows:

  1. Settings
  2. Add-ons
  3. Install from repository
  4. Program Add-ons
  5. Artwork Downloader
  6. Install

Summary:

This add-ons searches through your library for all your currently added Movies, TV Shows and Musicvideos and then searches for avaiable artwork. This then is downloaded to the folder location where that media is stored.

Current Features

Download artwork

  • Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Musicvideos


Limit artwork

  • Maximum extrafanart
  • Minimum rating
  • Preferred language (fall-back is always English)
  • Exclude fanart that has text (only available on thetvdb.com)
  • Minimum fanart size Movies (also for Musicvideos)
  • Minimum fanart size TV Shows


Overwrite all

  • This will overwrite all current files with the ones that fit the limiter. This option will automatic reset after a download run.

Artwork sources:

Please show your support to these sites by donating or contributing new artwork!

Filenaming conventions

Movies:

  • Poster (poster.jpg)
  • Fanart (fanart.jpg)
  • Extrafanart (<image ID from provider>.jpg)
  • Extrathumbs (thumb1.jpg to thumb4.jpg)


TV Shows:

  • Poster (poster.jpg)
  • Season Posters (season-all.jpg / seasonxx.jpg / season-specials.jpg)
  • Fanart (fanart.jpg)
  • Extrafanart (<image ID from provider>.jpg)
  • Clearart (cleart.png)
  • Characterart (character.png)
  • Logo (logo.png)
  • Banner (banner.jpg)
  • Season Banners (seasonbannerxx.jpg)


Musicvideos:

  • Poster (poster.jpg)
  • Fanart (fanart.jpg)
  • Extrafanart (<image ID from provider>.jpg)
  • Extrathumbs (thumb1.jpg to thumb4.jpg)


Limit artwork on (when available):

  • Maximum number of extrafanart
  • Rating
  • Without text
  • Language
  • Image size
  • Automaticly deleted extrafanart below the set limits (when available)

Skin integration

This add-on support different kind of skin integration methods. This allows skins to use buttons to download different kinds of artwork for a single media item or in bulk mode.

Solo mode =

This downloads for a single media item depending from what section of XBMC this is gonna be used from.

Runs script in solo mode This downloads all available artwork that has been enable in the add-on settings.


Runs script in GUI dialog mode

A menu is displayed with available artwork type. When a artwork type is selected the image list with available images will be displayed. The selected image will automaticly overwrite the current one when present.


Centralized extrafanart

  • Can be used for multi-image background slideshow