[Meta] Milovana scraper for Stash

[fl0w]

For anyone storing cock heroes in Stash there's a scraper for Milovana here.

It uses Milovana (release) threads to retrieve studio (thread author), title, date and cover image.

Title:
Thread topic minus all brackets/parenthesis+text within - e.g. with following thread topics:
[RELEASE] Video4U
[new release] Video4U (updated 09/11/22)
we'll get a scene title of Video4U

Cover image:
First image in thread.

It works well enough for me - though not always without manual intervention. For instance topics like [RELEASE] Video4U (part 2). In any case, thought I'd share it here in case anyone else would find this interesting.

edit: while on topic of scraping cock hero metadata there's also a scraper for cockhero.info here

[The Carnal Scholar]

Very useful! Thanks for writing this scraper and for pointing this out. It's actually the first scraper I've used.

[fl0w]

It's actually the first scraper I've used.

Same. Well, this and the one for cockhero.info. My stash is pretty much 99% CH/PMV content.

I had a look at pmv.wiki earlier, was intrigued to hear the announcement and I support it's goal. Also same with the PMV Stash project. These efforts and it's scholars will merit its own chapter in my future revised history book.

[bhk100]

Pretty cool! It would also be a nice addition to take the body of the first post text and copy it into the description. Also maybe grab the largest image in the post--if there is one--and use it as the thumbnail for the video (since some creators create title or banner images to go with the content)?

[fl0w]

Pretty cool! It would also be a nice addition to take the body of the first post text and copy it into the description. Also maybe grab the largest image in the post--if there is one--and use it as the thumbnail for the video (since some creators create title or banner images to go with the content)?

Yeah the text body as description would have been nice. Problem is the html tags. I used the xpath scraper in Stash and besides using regex to strip string from html I don't see any straight forward way to get clean text in to the description. And using regex would break on certain edge cases, like <3, 100 > 10 etc but perhaps a case could be made for at least scraping non edge-case posts, which probably most (or all?) release post would be anyways. This could otherwise probably be done well using a python scraper too. In the end though, I personally don't really use the description box in Stash enough to warrant that extra time
If anyone plays around with the script, which fortunately Stash makes easy, or comes up with something different - descriptions indeed would be a nice addition

Regarding images, I don't think the xpath scraper supports picking an image based on its attributes. Might be possible using a python scraper though.