Answers.Body: <p>After some research, I discover this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1966503/does-imdb-provide-an-api">post</a>.</p>
  
  <p>So far the API for <a href="http://www.omdbapi.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.omdbapi.com</a> has proven to be exactly what I wanted. For completeness, I found those command line tools helpful:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/xbgmsharp/allocine" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/xbgmsharp/allocine</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bgr/imdb-cli" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/bgr/imdb-cli</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>And on debian:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ sudo apt-get install python-imdbp
  </code></pre>
  
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Body: <p>I am looking for an open-source solution for automatically pulling films/TV shows informations. I've found MetaX (Windows only) and Subler (MacOSX only) from a post <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/91790/adding-metadata-for-films-tv-shows-in-itunes">here</a>. Apparently metadata sources can be found from: TVDB, TheMovieDB, Amazon, and tagChimp, as well as IMDB, ref <a href="http://www.danhinsley.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I know I can use <a href="http://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/mp4box/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MP4Box</a> (or libav/ffmpeg) to easily add metadata (including Cover Art), but really what I would like is a script and/or GUI to easily <strong>retrieve</strong> metadata (plot summary, cast and crew, genre, release data, Cover Art as JPEG...).</p>
  
  <p>Some people suggested using <a href="http://www.tweaking4all.com/home-theatre/adding-movie-information-metadata-to-mp4-m4v/#linux_vlc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">VLC</a> on Linux. But I cannot get anything to work over here (using debian/jessie amd64). Neither the <em>“Download Cover Art”</em>, nor the <em>“Add Cover Art”</em> seems to work.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/ciiFR.png" alt="VLC Screenshot"></p>
  
  <p>The first one does nothing, the second one print this on the console:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[00007f3fc4567d38] taglib meta writer error: File /tmp/big_buck_bunny_480p_h264.mov can't be opened for tag writing
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Bonus point: if this could be integrated to <a href="https://handbrake.fr/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Handbrake</a>, that would be awesome.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Do you have any sources that can be used to pull these informations in an automated manner? [ffmpeg can handle metadata](https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Metadata-1)
Comments.UserDisplayName: sebix
Tags: <mp4><linux><handbrake>
Title: Adding metadata for films/TV shows on Linux
UserDisplayName: malat
ThreadText: # Adding metadata for films/TV shows on Linux
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-04-04)
  
  I am looking for an open-source solution for automatically pulling films/TV shows informations. I've found MetaX (Windows only) and Subler (MacOSX only) from a post [here](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/91790/adding-metadata-for-films-tv-shows-in-itunes). Apparently metadata sources can be found from: TVDB, TheMovieDB, Amazon, and tagChimp, as well as IMDB, ref [here](http://www.danhinsley.com/).
  
  I know I can use [MP4Box](http://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/mp4box/) (or libav/ffmpeg) to easily add metadata (including Cover Art), but really what I would like is a script and/or GUI to easily **retrieve** metadata (plot summary, cast and crew, genre, release data, Cover Art as JPEG...).
  
  Some people suggested using [VLC](http://www.tweaking4all.com/home-theatre/adding-movie-information-metadata-to-mp4-m4v/#linux_vlc) on Linux. But I cannot get anything to work over here (using debian/jessie amd64). Neither the *“Download Cover Art”*, nor the *“Add Cover Art”* seems to work.
  
  ![VLC Screenshot](https://i.sstatic.net/ciiFR.png)
  
  The first one does nothing, the second one print this on the console:
  
  ```
  [00007f3fc4567d38] taglib meta writer error: File /tmp/big_buck_bunny_480p_h264.mov can't be opened for tag writing
  
  ```
  
  Bonus point: if this could be integrated to [Handbrake](https://handbrake.fr/), that would be awesome.
  
  **Tags:** mp4, linux, handbrake
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Do you have any sources that can be used to pull these informations in an automated manner? [ffmpeg can handle metadata](https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Metadata-1)  
  
  ---
  
  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2015-04-08. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  After some research, I discover this [post](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1966503/does-imdb-provide-an-api).
  
  So far the API for <http://www.omdbapi.com> has proven to be exactly what I wanted. For completeness, I found those command line tools helpful:
  
  * <https://github.com/xbgmsharp/allocine>
  * <https://github.com/bgr/imdb-cli>
  
  And on debian:
  
  ```
  $ sudo apt-get install python-imdbp
  
  ```
  
  
  ---
  
  