Sindex

Sindex is a tool and library that manages an index file, which contains the tv series and episodes you have watched. This index can be used by other tools like sjunkieex to determine new episodes that you are interested in. Here is an example, how an index looks like and what features are supported.

sindex requires Ruby 1.9 to work, then you can install it through:

$ [sudo] gem install sindex

You can configure sindex in ~/.sindex/config.yml after initial execution. The standard path for the episode index is ~/.sindex/seriesindex.xml.

• nokogiri is used for all the XML handling and requires that you have installed the C-libraries for libxml2 and libxslt in their development version. Consult the documentation of nokogiri for further information.

sindex allows you to build an index from a directory, that contains your watched series and episodes. The directory from which the index is built, should have the following structure:

/path/to/your/series_directory/
├── Chuck
│   └── .......
├── Community
│   └── .......
└── The Big Bang Theory
    └── .......

sindex treats all directories in your supplied directory as series, so you should name they correct. In these directories, all Video-files (recursively) containing S0xE0x are added for the series to the index. It is recommended to rename your episode with a tool like serienrenamer, which renames your episodes into this format.

The following command creates an index from the directory /home/user/Serien and writes it to /home/user/Desktop/index.xml:

$ sindex --buildindex ~/Serien --indexfile ~/Desktop/index.xml

If your episodes are not in German, you have to add --language [en|fr]. Now you should make changes to the index if required and move this to the path specified by index_file.

sindex wouldn't be useful without the option to add new episodes to the index. If you have downloaded and renamed your new episodes, you can type only sindex and a similar output can be viewed.

[user@host ~]% ls ~/Downloads
S04E21 - Kopfjäger.mkv
[user@host ~]% sindex

>>> S04E21 - Kopfjäger.mkv
<< from infostore: Castle
<< selected series name: Castle
<< language: de
Added 'S04E21 - Kopfjäger.mkv' to index

Should I write the new index? y
New Index version has been written

After that, an updated version of the index is written to disk, which contains the new episode.

sindex allows you to define three kinds of Hooks, that are executed at special places. You can supply Scripts or command lines to be executed as Hooks.

• pre_processing_hook is called before the index is parsed on adding new episodes. This allows you to do a git pull on your version controlled series index or something else.
• post_processing_hook is called when a new index is written. I use this to do a git commit and git push to save the index on Github.
• episode_hook is called for every episode after a new index is written. The parameters are the filename (relative to episode_directory) and second the series name. I use this to move the episodes out of my Download folder into a special directory structure.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request