arabcoders/emby-daily-plugin

Extends Emby date-based parsing capabilities

Emby Extended Datetime parser for Daily Episodes.

This plugin support the standard Japanese media date format for daily shows episodes. This plugin only concerns itself with episodes, If you want real metadata for the series itself or the season you should use NFO files.

For jellyfin version of the plugin please visit jf-daily-plugin page.

Expected filename formats.

Date can be in the following format (YYYY-mm-dd 2023-09-16 - date separator can be -, . or _) or (YY?YYmmdd 20230916 or 230916) (dates before 2000 should be in YYYYmmdd format),as we prefix two digits to the year to make it a four digit year with 20.

So the filename itself can contain any of the previous date formats. However, the place where the date is located is important and must comply with the following spec. {date} refers to the date in any of the previous formats.

• {date} title [720p].mkv
• Series Title - {date} - title [720p].mkv
• Title {date}.mkv

Note: For the 2nd format Series title - {date} - title [720p].mkv the year has to be 4 digit it's due to misidentifying files that has titles with 6 digit numbers in them.

Special Format

This format is specially added to support a better looking title.

• {date} Series title -? (#0|ep0|DVD1|DVD1.1|SP1|SP1.1) -? title [720p].mkv

The generated title will be (#0|ep0|DVD1|DVD1.1|SP1|SP1.1) - title.

Installation

Go to the Releases page and download the latest release.

Unzip the file and copy DailyExtender.dll to Emby plugins directory and restart Emby. Go to your Japanese library make sure DAILYExtender is on the top of your Metadata readers list. Disable all external metadata sources. And only enable Image fetchers (Episodes): - Screen grabber (FFmpeg). if you don't have a local image for the episode, it will be fetched from the video file itself.

Build and Installing from source

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Ensure you have .NET Core SDK setup and installed.
3. Build plugin with following command.

   dotnet publish --configuration Release --output bin
   

4. Copy the DailyExtender.dll from the bin directory which was created in step 3 to Emby plugins directory. You can find your directory by going to Dashboard.
5. Be sure that the plugin files are owned by your Emby user.

If performed correctly you will see a plugin named DAILYExtender in Dashboard -> Plugins.