mynttt / UpdateTool

A tool to update the IMDB ratings for Plex libraries that contain movies/series and use the IMDB agent to receive ratings
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Feature request: repurpose Rotten Tomatoes reviews #86

Open burkasaurusrex opened 2 years ago

burkasaurusrex commented 2 years ago

I'm not sure how long ago Plex added it, but it looks like the new metadata agent is adding individual critic reviews from Rotten Tomatoes to media. I generally think a random smattering of the critic reviews is kind of worthless, but it would be cool to repurpose them for something useful. Given that this tool does an awesome job interfacing directly with the Plex DB, I thought it might be a natural home.

Some ideas:

I haven't done any research on if Plex is already storing Rotten Tomatoes IDs / slugs or if Rotten Tomatoes does a daily dump like you've leveraged from IMDb. If it's interesting, happy to start looking into it. Thanks again for the great tool.

mynttt commented 2 years ago

Sounds interesting. I'll look into it the next weeks and come back to you.

burkasaurusrex commented 2 years ago

Had some free time so I started poking around on this for a bit. I'll document here as I learn more.

It looks like Plex stores the reviews in the taggings table with this sqlite schema:

0|id|INTEGER
1|metadata_item_id|integer
2|tag_id|integer
3|index|integer
4|text|varchar(255)
5|time_offset|integer
6|end_time_offset|integer
7|thumb_url|varchar(255)
8|created_at|datetime
9|extra_data|varchar(255)

There's a lot of other types of rows in this table, but here's what a sample review row looks like:

2941514|274760|54280|8|With this fifth and final go-round, it's clear who the best Bond is. It's Craig, Daniel Craig.||||2022-07-11 02:07:46|at%3Aimage=rottentomatoes%3A%2F%2Fimage%2Ereview%2Efresh&at%3Alink=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebostonglobe%2Ecom%2F2021%2F10%2F06%2Farts%2Fno-time-die-007-is-craig-daniel-craig%2F&at%3Asource=Boston%20Globe

Corresponding rendered review:

Screenshot 2022-07-12 034418

Inferred mapping:

# Field Type Note
0 id integer Appears to be an auto increment ID
1 metadata_item_id integer Maps to ratingKey
2 tag_id integer Appears to be an ID of the contributor (e.g. a unique ID for Mark Feeney above)
3 index integer Appears to be the index of the order reviews should be rendered
4 text varchar(255) Review text
5 time_offset integer blank
6 end_time_offset integer blank
7 thumb_url varchar(255) blank
8 created_at datetime Unclear if this is time of the review or time added to the database
9 extra_data varchar(255) Url encoded string

Url decoded example: at:image=rottentomatoes://image.review.fresh&at:link=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/06/arts/no-time-die-007-is-craig-daniel-craig/&at:source=Boston Globe

Further investigation to do:

burkasaurusrex commented 2 years ago
8 created_at datetime Unclear if this is time of the review or time added to the database

Confirmed that this is the timestamp of when the review is inserted into the database (local time)

burkasaurusrex commented 2 years ago
  • [x] Find where tag_id maps to. See if it can be manipulated.

No surprise, tag_id maps to the tags table:

0|id|integer
1|metadata_item_id|integer
2|tag|varchar(255)
3|tag_type|integer
4|user_thumb_url|varchar(255)
5|user_art_url|varchar(255)
6|user_music_url|varchar(255)
7|created_at|datetime
8|updated_at|datetime
9|tag_value|integer
10|extra_data|varchar(255)
11|key|varchar(255)
12|parent_id|integer

The corresponding row to the example above:

              id = 54280
metadata_item_id = 
             tag = Mark Feeney
        tag_type = 10
  user_thumb_url = 
    user_art_url = 
  user_music_url = 
      created_at = 2016-11-26 03:36:39
      updated_at = 2016-11-26 03:36:39
       tag_value = 
      extra_data = 
             key = 
       parent_id = 
  • [x] Make reliable WHERE clause to identify reviews in taggings table (there doesn't seem to be a tagging_type column strangely enough). I'm guessing something like WHERE extra_data LIKE '%at\%3Aimage%' ESCAPE '\' AND extra_data LIKE '%at\%3Asource%' ESCAPE '\' would work (and allow a missing link). Or looks like the Plex sqlite has FTS capabilities, might be able to use that instead.

When joined with the taggings table, the tags.tag_type column is probably a more reliable way to identify reviews. Could potentially use tags.extra_data to denote artificial reviews more reliably.

burkasaurusrex commented 2 years ago
  • [x] Find where rottentomatoes://image.review.fresh is stored. See if the image store can be manipulated to take other logos. If so, it would be easier to identify Plex-native reviews and delete them by: 1) copying the native images to a different name (e.g. image.RT.fresh), 2) using new image in artificial ratings, 3) delete any review using original image.

Unfortunately, these images appear to be rendered by each client instead of served as an image from the server. So I don't think there's a reliable way to add / rename images.

The only two built-in reviewImages appear to be rottentomatoes://image.review.fresh and rottentomatoes://image.review.rotten.

However, image keys look similar to ratingImage and audienceRatingImage. Here's the list of images ratingImages I could find in the webapp javascript. I tested how each ratingImage rendered as a reviewImage and a few other permultations on web, iOS:

Image Key Web iOS Note
rottentomatoes://image.rating.certified :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
rottentomatoes://image.rating.ripe :x: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
rottentomatoes://image.rating.fresh :heavy_check_mark: :x: Inferred alias of *.ripe
rottentomatoes://image.rating.rotten :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
rottentomatoes://image.rating.upright :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
rottentomatoes://image.rating.spilled :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
themoviedb://image.rating :x: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
imdb://image.rating :x: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
thetvdb://image.rating :x: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
igdb://image.rating :x: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
rottentomatoes://image.review.certified :heavy_check_mark: :x:
rottentomatoes://image.review.ripe :x: :x:
rottentomatoes://image.review.fresh :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Default reviewImage
rottentomatoes://image.review.rotten :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Default reviewImage
rottentomatoes://image.review.upright :heavy_check_mark: :x:
rottentomatoes://image.review.spilled :heavy_check_mark: :x:
themoviedb://image.review :x: :x:
imdb://image.review :x: :x:
thetvdb://image.review :x: :x:
igdb://image.review :x: :x:
https://* :x: :x: Any http link to a png

So here's the image keys that should be used. Basically the two default reviewImages and the remaining default ratingImages.

Image Key Web iOS Note
rottentomatoes://image.rating.certified :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
rottentomatoes://image.review.fresh :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Default reviewImage
rottentomatoes://image.review.rotten :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Default reviewImage
rottentomatoes://image.rating.upright :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
rottentomatoes://image.rating.spilled :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
themoviedb://image.rating :x: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
imdb://image.rating :x: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
thetvdb://image.rating :x: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage
igdb://image.rating :x: :heavy_check_mark: Default ratingImage

Where the web app fails to render the image, it does seem to degrade gracefully:

image

mynttt commented 2 years ago

@burkasaurusrex This is some very good insight! Especially regarding the rating images which I always speculated over but never verified how they are actually implemented. I'll try to reply to you with a longer text over the next weeks as right now I'm kinda busy with other things =)