[DOCS] Find files where online metadata has changed

[rednoah]

e.g. find movie files where xattr metadata does not exactly match the online movie information:

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filebot -mediainfo -r "/path/to/Movies" \
	--file-filter "f.video" \
	--filter "movie && none{ n == info.name && y == info.released.year }" \
	--format "{n} | {y} | { info.name } | { info.released.year } | {f}"

** this code will only check for changes in movie name and movie year


e.g. find episode files where xattr metadata does not exactly match the online episode information:

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filebot -mediainfo -r "/path/to/TV Shows" \
	--file-filter "f.video" \
	--filter "episode && none{ episode as String == episodelist.find{ it.episode == episode }.episode as String }" \
	--format "{episode} | {episodelist.find{ it.episode == episode }.episode} | {f}"

** this code will only check for changes in series name and season / episode numbers and episode title


find-movie-metadata-changes.sh and find-episode-metadata-changes.sh are available on GitHub:

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# Fetch shell script files
curl --output-dir ~/bin -O 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filebot/plugins/master/bash/find-movie-metadata-changes.sh'
curl --output-dir ~/bin -O 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filebot/plugins/master/bash/find-episode-metadata-changes.sh'
# Make shell script files executable
chmod +x ~/bin/*.sh
# Find files where metadata has changed
~/bin/find-movie-metadata-changes.sh "/path/to/Movies"
~/bin/find-episode-metadata-changes.sh "/path/to/TV Shows"

The miss script (i.e. find missing episodes) can be used to find episodes that are listed online but not in the local file system as per xattr metadata.


DO NOT run these scripts more than once per month if you run them on a large library of files. Checking for changes requires complete movie and series / episode information for all files and thus causes excessive load on 3rd party databases.