Kolekto is a really KISS movie catalog software.

Features:

• Cool CLI interface (and maybe a web interface to browse collection later)
• Able to query The Movie Database to collect metadata about movies
• Able to get informations from files itself depending of the container (title, quality, runtime...)
• As simple as possible: all movies are stored in a directory, a berkley database store the metadata for each movie, and a bunch of symlink are created depending of the patterns set in the config file ("by actors", "by title"...)
• Easy to extend, really!

The fastest and more common way to install Kolekto is using pip:

pip install kolekto

If you use Debian Wheezy, you can also use the Tecknet repositories. Add theses lines in your /etc/apt/source.list file:

deb http:https://debian.tecknet.org/debian wheezy tecknet
deb-src http:https://debian.tecknet.org/debian wheezy tecknet

Add the Tecknet repositories key in your keyring:

# wget http:https://debian.tecknet.org/debian/public.key -O - | apt-key add -

Then, update and install the kolekto package:

# aptitude update
# aptitude install kolekto

Create your Kolekto tree:

$ mkdir /tmp/kolekto_test && cd /tmp/kolekto_test
$ kolekto init
Initialized empty Kolekto tree in /tmp/kolekto_test/

Check that the tree has been properly created:

$ kolekto list

Look at the .kolekto directory created:

$ tree -a
.
└── .kolekto
    ├── config
    ├── metadata.db
    └── movies

2 directories, 2 files

The config file is the config file of the tree (not a joke!), the metadata.db file is the berkley database storing metadata for each movie in the tree, and the movies directory is where to store movies themselves.

You can edit the config file using the following command:

$ kolekto config

It will just launch your favorite editor.

There is two types of section in the config file, views and datasources. Before to import movies, uncomment the tmdb section and fill the API key. You can get it after a signup on themoviedb.org. I will come back to the views later.

Now, import a movie:

$ kolekto import ~/Sintel.mkv
Title to search [Sintel]?
Please choose the relevant movie for the file: Sintel.ogv

[1] Sintel (2010) by Colin Levy [tmdb]
[2] Enter manually informations
[3] None of these

Choice [1-3]? 1
Do you want to edit the movie metadata [y/N]

Copying movie in kolekto tree...
 100% [=====================================]  420.31 M/s | Time: 00:00:01

Check that your movie has been imported:

$ kolekto list
 3bb8414b6f70e5125e2092a3d96b483088a2283d  Sintel (2010) by Colin Levy

You can show more informations about the movie:

$ kolekto show 3bb8414b6f70e5125e2092a3d96b483088a2283d
title: Sintel
directors: Colin Levy
year: 2010
cast: Halina Reijn
      Thom Hoffman
writers: Esther Wouda
collection: Blender Open Movies
genres: Animation
        Fantasy
        Short
title_fi: Sintel - Hiillos
title_nl: Durian Open Movie Project
score: 1162.625
quality: 720p
container: Matroska
ext: mkv
runtime: 14
_datasource: tmdb
_tmdb_id: 45745

Now reopen the config file (using kolekto config), and add another view called "Example" with this pattern: '{genres}/{year}/{quality}/{title}.{ext}':

view 'Example' {
    pattern = '{genres}/{year}/{quality}/{title}.{ext}'
}

The following command will create symlinks for each view defined in your config file:

$ kolekto link
Found 0 links to delete, 4 links to create

Inspect your Kolekto tree for the newly created links:

$ tree
.
├── Example
│   ├── Animation
│   │   └── 2010
│   │       └── 720p
│   │           └── Sintel.mkv -> ../../../../.kolekto/movies/3bb8414b6f70e5125e2092a3d96b483088a2283d
│   ├── Fantasy
│   │   └── 2010
│   │       └── 720p
│   │           └── Sintel.mkv -> ../../../../.kolekto/movies/3bb8414b6f70e5125e2092a3d96b483088a2283d
│   └── Short
│       └── 2010
│           └── 720p
│               └── Sintel.mkv -> ../../../..kolekto/movies/3bb8414b6f70e5125e2092a3d96b483088a2283d
└── Titles
    └── Sintel.mkv -> ../.kolekto/movies/3bb8414b6f70e5125e2092a3d96b483088a2283d

11 directories, 4 files

You can use the --help option to see all available commands.

See the TODO.rst and CHANGELOG.rst files

Kolekto is released under MIT license, copyright 2013 Antoine Millet.

You can send your pull-request for Kolekto through Github:

https://github.com/NaPs/Kolekto

I also accept well formatted git patches sent by email.

Feel free to contact me for any question/suggestion/patch: <[email protected]>.