How to handle scrapping of Treasure Island media

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I tend to have full movies not just the scenes and stash does not scarp the URL I get for the Movie and Stash DB does not have the data . . . .

So my question is how do you handle full movies when the file is not a scene?

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I have no idea how well they do with gay content, but I’ve used IAFD a lot to get at least basic metadata for 90s / 2000s era movies / DVDs.Matching performers to actual StashDB / ThePornDB performers can be painfull though, they really like to use first name only a lot.

For movies vs. scenes, it’s not really what stash is targeting, so it’s manual work in one way or another. I ended up with a process auto-generating split markers through a script of Stash Marker Sution, manually reviewing them (sometimes they are good, sometimes they are terrible), and then running a custom-made script to actually generate split scenes from those markers. Surprisingly, more than a few individual scenes actually matched through StashDB then (scenes sometimes get repacked so often, it’s hard to trace their name). But all in all, it’ s pretty custom, painful to get going, and not for the faint of heart.

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I see that there is a “Group” (which is meant to be a generalized concept of a movie) scraper for Treasure Island Media here.

I don’t use groups in Stash, but my understanding is that they are meant to be used in a situation where you have individual scene files from the movie/group, so this may or may not be a full solution for your use case. Perhaps it would be satisfactory to create a group entry with a single “scene” inside it, otherwise you could try adapting the existing group scraper to be a scene scraper.

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Yes a full movie from Treasure Island will scrape as a group but not as a scene. Or you can manually copy over the detail from Treasure Island for the whole movie as a single scene.

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This is precisely what I do. I download buy a metric crap ton of videos, usually movies/dvds, and I really do not want to take the time to split them into individual scenes. So I have a group for each release with a single “scene” in it, and that scene is the full length release.

As far as scraping TIM for things like performers for scene/movie.. like as has been said previously, it’s gonna be a manual process. I have used the TIM affiliate portal to get info for movies, scenes, and performers. It’s a little easier to navigate/search.

AEBN, GEVI, and GayAdultEmpire are also good sources of metadata, especially runtime, date of production, etc.