Information in this topic is outdated. Please refer to this document for most current state of the script engine plug-in: http://www.videodb.info/help/hlp_scripting.htmlBeginning with version
0.9.8.11 there is a possibility to create scripts using Pascal syntax to download movie and person information from the internet.
Scripts were added to make it possible for users to add additional functionality to the program without deep programming knowledge.
There are already some scripts available, so the only thing you will need to do in most cases is to set some values for constants and write code to parse HTML pages. Mostly it is just about finding unique texts around information needed.
I have added multiple useful functions to make creating scripts easier.
Scripts should be saved in Scripts directory and have a .psf extension. All the scripts communicate with the main program with help of a special Script Engine plugin scriptint.dll.
Scripts can not work without this plugin.PVD treats the scripts just like plugins, so you can configure them, combine in bacth files etc.
The following information can be set using scripts: - All movie information fields, including custom fields
- All person information fields
- Posters
Please take into account that only a small subset of information fields can be set up in the program to be overwritten or not.
All other fields are always overwritten.