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Movies

End result

You'll end up with this:

Note: Varasto can also track the movies that you've watched (and which year) - see the "seen" tag.

Preparations

Info

You only have to do this part once.

Create a directory in Varasto, let's say Media > Movies.

Let's tell Varasto that this is a directory for storing movies. You don't necessarily have to do this, but Varasto can be a bit smarter about displaying the contents if it knows exact use for a directory.

Now you can see the assigned type. Take note of the directory's ID:

Uploading your first movie

Tip

While this guide discusses command line usage, you can also upload files from the Web UI!

We have a directory that has a movie in it:

$ cd ted2/
$ tree .
└── Ted 2 (2015).mkv

Remember, our movie parent directory ID is GD2MmBEqk9A.

To upload the movie to Varasto, run these commands:

$ sto adopt GD2MmBEqk9A
$ sto push

The upload is done!

Explanation: adopt

We'll adopt the directory in Varasto. Adopting means that a corresponding collection will be created in Varasto under a specified Varasto parent directory (but no files will be uploaded/pushed yet).

After running the command, we now have an empty collection in Varasto:

Explanation: push

The push command pushes the collection's local changes (= all data, since adoption created an empty collection) to Varasto server.

Removing the local copy that we just uploaded

Varasto has a safe mechanism for removing local copies of collections - it only removes the data if Varasto server has the same data:

$ cd ..
$ sto rm ted2

Fetching metadata

Like you saw in the end result, Varasto fetched metadata for the movie:

  • Movie runtime
  • Banner image
  • Plot summary, revenue and release date
  • Links to IMDb and TMDb

The movie is stored in Varasto, but Varasto can't fetch metadata for it without telling exactly which movie it is (Varasto is not yet smart enough to guess based on filename):

Varasto can also clean up your collection name based on the official title:

  • After adoption our collection name was ted2.
  • After metadata pull it was cleaned up to Ted 2.

Metadata support configuration

Varasto needs an API key to be able to fetch movie and TV show metadata.

You can do this from Settings > Content metadata: