mendia-scraper

CLI client for the mendia server. Scans local media directories for movie files, enriches metadata via TMDb and ffprobe, stores a local cache in SQLite, and publishes newly discovered movies to the server.

Part of the mendia ecosystem.

Prerequisites

• ffprobe (part of ffmpeg) must be in $PATH
• A running mendia server and a user account on it

Installation

Download the latest binary from the GitLab releases page, or install from crates.io:

cargo install mendia-scraper

Setup

Run the interactive setup wizard once to configure credentials and media directories:

mendia-scraper --setup

This stores the configuration in ~/.mendiafilescrapper/config.toml.

Usage

Scan for new movies

mendia-scraper --scan

Walks all configured directories, hashes new files, queries TMDb for metadata, and saves results to the local database. Nothing is sent to the server.

Scan and publish in one step

mendia-scraper --scan --publish

After scanning, immediately pushes the full current movie list to the mendia server. The server reconciles the list per user (removing stale entries and inserting new ones) and sends a Telegram notification for each new entry.

Suppress Telegram notifications (silent mode)

mendia-scraper --scan --publish --silent

Runs a full scan and publish without triggering any Telegram notifications. Useful for initial database population or re-syncs where notifications would be excessive.

The same behaviour can be activated via the environment variable MENDIA_SILENT (any non-empty value):

MENDIA_SILENT=1 mendia-scraper --scan --publish

Debug logging

mendia-scraper --scan --publish --debug

Enables verbose console output. All log levels are always written to ~/.mendiafilescrapper/log.txt.

Local files

Ecosystem