This is a simple script to automatically create collections by matching the titles of movies in your library with movies in the collections.yml file.
git clone https://github.com/alex-phillips/emby-auto-collections
cd emby-auto-collections
npm install
You will need to copy config.ini.sample to config.ini and populate this with your server's information. Then run index.js and pass in whichever collection files you want as arguments.
node index.js collections.d/marvel.yml
node index.js collections.d/*
Since this was designed to run against any arbitrary Plex movie library (and some people may have different naming conventions for movies), I decided that regular expression matching would be best for most cases.
Example:
^Star Wars(.*?A New Hope|.*?Episode (?:4|IV))?$ will match all of the following that could be the first (chronoligically) Star Wars movie (and more):
- Star Wars
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- Star Wars: Episode 4
- Star Wars: Episode IV
If you want to customize collection names or the names of movies found in your library, simply edit or replace the included collections.yml file.
The directory collections.d exists as a way for people to contribute and add new collections. Collections can also be broken out into individual files so you don't have to run the script against every collection in the project.
When determining whether to put a new collection in collections.yml or
collections.d, please keep the following best practices in mind:
- Any collection may reside in a custom collection.
- A collection longer than about 10 lines in length should be placed in its own custom collection.
- A collection longer than about 50 lines in length should be placed in its own
custom collection, and be disabled by default (e.g.
my_collection.yml.disabled).
A great resource for posters can be found in this reddit thread.
I wrote this with the hope that the community would help expand and include more collections and help make any corrections in better matching movies in various libraries. Pull requests are very much welcome!