Ciné-passion: a new scraper for Plex and XBMC

Today is released the scraper Ciné-passion V1.0 developed by the passion-xbmc.org’s community.

This scraper is a major update of the speedallocine scraper which gave access to a big collection of thumb and fan-art in high quality for movies. The database is feed daily and automatically by scanning the web.

Below what’s new in Ciné-passion:

• Improvement of the movie identification algorithm decreasing the number of movie to edit after the first automatic scan.
• Now the scraper can feed an English speaking library by selecting the language in the scraper’s parameters. The previous version was only French speaking.
• You have the choice of the rating source : Allocine.fr, IMDB or Ciné-passion.
• The big update is you can now report errors in movies informations and suggest new picture by a bilingual GUI hosted on a dedicated website: official web page of Ciné-passion scraper.

This new scraper will be available in the next release of Plex and XBMC. If your can’t wait you can download it here.

Warning for French Plex and XBMC users : in the next release, former French scrapers allociné and speedallociné will be removed. Allocine is no more maintained and speedallocine is no more compatible with the new database. We think only one scraper allows to concentrate the focus of the few developers and make it easy for the new user to make his choice when selecting a scraper.

Don’t worry, the remove of those scrapers will not disturb the Plex or XBMC stability. Your sources will not be able to be refreshed until you update the category.

I’ve made a tutorial to explain how to update you sources on the French part of the blog. If you need a translation let me know.

More information on the official page of Ciné-passion

Related posts:

1. Release of Plex V0.8.3