It would be freaking cool as a content provider for Jellyfin.
If somebody could provide me a write up of how to do that I’ll be very grateful
There isn’t a way yet.
Why do you say that? There are several plugins able to play external media.
AFAIK there isn’t a plugin for parsing that website, sending searches to it, and retrieving the appropriate stream.
You could write some code that could do that or you could use that site to expose the underlying m3u8 playlist for an individual file, drop that link in a text file, then name it as a .strm file and position the file such that JF picks it up as a video, but otherwise this website’s formatting is rather bespoke and I’m not aware of any JF plugins that allow for searching and dynamically adding content from any other on-demand streaming sites.
Which existing plugins were you thinking of? I’m a coder so maybe I can point out some of the differences/technical issues for you.
I’m not a developer, but looking at the docs, shows several plugins able to stream from external sources.
Looks like Jellyfin refers to these plugins as “channels”, if the Jellyfin API isn’t enough, you can create custom endpoints.
Links:
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/plugins/
That’s quite awesome.
Would love to see other providers for other languages tho
Are providers English only?
Neat idea, would be interesting if it used your own content from DLNA, Jellyfin, etc. The code looks simple enough that it should be possible to add a plug-in/provider for that stuff.
I think that it’s not going to have a long lifespan though. Being a simple and easy front end for various streaming sites might paint a target on it. Rightly or Wrongly.
I can see it having a longer life if it were to integrate some other technologies aside from the above like IPFS, BitTorrent, etc. The libraries to do that are already readily accessible eg LibP2P. Though that again might paint a bigger target.
Either way it’s definitely really neat and I’m sure a fun project to fork and explore if someone is feeling up to that kind of work.
