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Notes on media organization, automated scraping, and related tips.

Faster AI parsing and translation, with support for LTX watermarks and tags.

Scrape Movies That Conventional Matching Misses with AI

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Can't match a movie with conventional scraping? Use a DeepSeek or other LLM to extract titles, cast, descriptions, and covers from a webpage. Includes OpenAI API setup and a step-by-step example.

Multi-selection for completed items, improved rescraping controls, and several fixes.

Quickly Browse or Edit a Scraped Media Library with MDC

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Use MDC to browse an existing NFO media library without creating a new library, then view, search, edit metadata, and scrape again.

How to Scrape Movies on a Cloud Drive

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Scrape movies on a cloud drive while avoiding provider traffic limits and saving metadata and artwork to a local hard drive.

New translation prompts, crop controls, format recognition, and stability fixes.

Added localized settings and first-launch language selection, with metadata, NFO, and subtitle renaming improvements.

Added multi-field display and sorting to completed projects, with a login animation fix and minor adjustments.

Added file paths and creation times to media metadata, with improvements to subtitle handling and the existing NFO update mode.

Added reuse of existing covers for multi-episode videos, updated site rules, and improved AI translation parsing and stability.

Added collapsible top bar and user information, with fixes for translations, still images, and cover view deletion.

Added support for the -partX episode suffix and fixed unexpected termination when filling in actor avatars.

Playback now uses the target path for STRM files, and tasks can be interrupted correctly.

Added previews and custom images for cover watermarks, and fixed single-file scraping errors.

Significantly improved the completed project details experience and fixed cover download failures.

Added cover view and project filtering, with faster completed-directory scans and improved video name extraction.

Introduced a new interface and WebView2 installation prompts, fixed startup and task stopping issues, and restored double-click folder access.

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