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Media Importers
This page describes existing and potential media importers capable of importing media items from a specific provider.
The following importers are part of Kodi core:
The UPnP media importer is written in C++ and is part of Kodi core. It uses Kodi's UPnP integration based on Platinum SDK. Kodi automatically detects other UPnP servers as potential media providers. Furthermore each Kodi installation with UPnP sharing enabled is a potential media provider for other Kodi installations.
- Can automatically detect potential providers
- Can import full lists of media items
- Can update playback related metadata (watched, playcount, resume point) on the provider
- Cannot automatically detect changes on the provider
- Cannot provide changesets of imported media items
- Cannot update metadata on the provider
The add-on media importer is written in C++ and is part of Kodi core. It provides a new extension point kodi.mediaimporter for add-ons and therefore allows developers to write completely new media importers as add-ons. The add-on media importer supports several features while most of them are optional.
- Can automatically detect potential providers using the
discoveryscript - Can manually add providers using the
protocolattribute, the<canlookupprovider>tag and thelibraryscript - Can import full or partial list of media items using the
libraryscript - Can observe providers for changes and pass them to Kodi immediately as a changeset using the
observerscript - Can define provider specific settings
- Can provide import specific settings
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See kodi.mediaimporter for a detailed documentation of the new extension point for add-ons.
The following media importer add-ons are available:
- mediaimporter.emby supports importing media items from Emby / Jellyfin servers
- mediaimporter.plex supports importing media items from Plex Media Servers
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