VNDB metadata plugin

[Mithnar]

Download:

https://github.com/Mithnar/PlayniteVndb/releases

Repository:

https://github.com/Mithnar/PlayniteVndb

The VNDB Metadata Plugin has been released!

VNDB is a comprehensive database for Visual Novels
https://vndb.org/

I hope you'll like it

Installation

• Download the zipped extension: https://github.com/Mithnar/PlayniteVndb/releases
  
• Unzip and drop the "Extensions" and "ExtensionsData" folders into your Playnite directory
  
• Configure the extension to your needs (Settings../Metadata Sources/VNDB)
  
• You can now use "Download Metadata" under "Edit Game Details" to use VNDB as a metadata source
  

Changes

To keep up with the latest changes, look at the changelog:
https://github.com/Mithnar/PlayniteVndb/...ANGELOG.md


Help the Plugin grow!

Contributions are welcome - be it by code submissions, bug reports or feature requests

[darklinkpower]

Thanks and congrats on the release! Do you prefer feature requests in here or Github?

I have a few:

1.While URLs are fixed when downloaded, they still show with the url tags in the preview. I think the URL and [url] tags should be removed, leaving only the link text.


2. Download only the original publisher and make downloading every single one optional since it currently downloads a massive list. I don't know if it's even possible because I don't see that vndb mentions the originals and I don't know if it does so in the API, maybe a dirty way of doing this would be by release date. Or perhaps make selectionable which languages you want to download publishers from.

3. Another problem I can think of are release dates. It currently downloads the original release date, which will not apply in most cases with re-releases and english translations. I can't think of an automatic way to address this other than perhaps after selecting the publisher mentioned in no.2, prompt the user to select which release date to choose from.

[dennisjjunk]

I just installed this metadata provider and tried to download metadata for "Digital: A Love Story", and got an error "Failed to download metadata: Nullable object must have a value".

[darklinkpower]

Found another title that throws that error too but I don't see something similar that is causing this error for these games and not any other that I've tested: 00 mem.: ~Le Chat~

[Mithnar]

I'll look into the errors with Digital: A Love Story and 00 mem.: ~Le Chat~.

As for Feature Requests: It's probably easier to keep track of them on GitHub, but here is fine too.

[Mithnar]

New release is up:

https://github.com/Mithnar/PlayniteVndb/.../tag/1.0.1

[dennisjjunk]

Mithnar, the bug in Playnite related to both of those two games -- "Digital: A Love Story" and "00 mem.: ~Le Chat~", is #1501. Day of month should be allowed null, since it's often not known (no records of the game's full release date are still available).

[Crow]

That's definitely not related to #1501. Metadata plugins can return null release date and Playnite will process it properly.

[Mithnar]

null as a return is fine, this was about having no day for the release date

[Nikey646]

That's definitely not related to #1501. Metadata plugins can return null release date and Playnite will process it properly.

VNDB has a weird date format which allows users to submit a date with only a year+month+day, month+day, or year+month format. This basically required creating a new Date object for VndbSharp to allow dates without time, let alone missing year / day information potentially. The issue about dates discussed in this thread mostly relate to that, i suspect.

(I'm the Original Author of VndbSharp :D)

Mithnar, I would suggest providing an option to either allowing either default years and days, or returning null when a date is incomplete, and implementing that. It would allow users who would prefer to have partial dates see a potentially incorrect date, while users who would prefer an accurate or bust approach can also have it their way. Personally, I think the default should be accurate or bust, but it is up to you.

[Mithnar]

New release is up!

https://github.com/Mithnar/PlayniteVndb/...es/tag/1.1

[darklinkpower]

Thanks for the update!