batch: search movie rating and sort

**JohnnyC35** · February 13th, 2012

I am looking for a program or script or something... to be able to sort a directory of movies into directories for ratings,
So some movies would go into G, PG, PG13, etc. I have tried Googling and using Synaptic but haven't found a program to do what I want, and doing it by cli is a little beyond me. Any help would be great

**Vaphell** · February 14th, 2012

if you got the list of titles and categories in a tidy format then it should be doable, if we are talking about querying some internet database, dealing with title duplicates, ambiguities and scraping the data off webpages... then it belongs to the 'world of pain' category.

**JohnnyC35** · February 14th, 2012

I have a bunch of tidy titled filenames in one large directory. I imagine that it would be needed to access some database to find the ratings but other than that ummm... ya...

script wise...
imdb.com/search=filename (minus the last 4 characters)
find the character (x) after 'rating: '
move file into /movies/x

.. think it may be a bit more complicated than that

**Vaphell** · February 14th, 2012

main problem is that movie titles are not unique and imdb presents you with disambiguation pages more often than not. You have to manually select the right entry.
'titanic' gives you like dozen results

**HiImTye** · February 14th, 2012

you could just use XBMC, it has plugins to manage TV Show and Movie information, from TVDB, TheMovieDB, IMDB, etc

**JohnnyC35** · February 14th, 2012

Originally Posted by HiImTye

you could just use XBMC, it has plugins to manage TV Show and Movie information, from TVDB, TheMovieDB, IMDB, etc

I see in XBMC there are addons to get movie info, but it doesn't list it in the directory listing or have an option to list by rating

**HiImTye** · February 14th, 2012

you can sort your movies by rating, when youre in your movie browser, go to the left side of the screen so that the menu pops out and then change the 'sort by:' setting until it says 'MPAA Rating'

**JohnnyC35** · February 15th, 2012

Originally Posted by HiImTye

you can sort your movies by rating, when youre in your movie browser, go to the left side of the screen so that the menu pops out and then change the 'sort by:' setting until it says 'MPAA Rating'

I have 'TheMovieDb' and 'IMDb' enabled under movie information and when I check 'sort by:' I don't see 'MPAA Rating'. What addon do I need to be able to have that option? I have whatever version of XBMC comes with their repo. My options are by Date, File, Name, or Size.