This is a python script that helps you to search, download movie posters and set them as folder icons. PosterPy uses the popular IMDbPY package to search movies and TMDb a.k.a The Movie Data Base API to download movie posters.
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Your PC may take some time to index the newly added icons. If the icons doesn't appear after 3 - 5 minutes try clearing and resetting thumbnail cache of our PC. Here is a article on how to clear and reset thumbnail cache in Windows.
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Since PosterPy is using the TMDb API to download movie posters you need to have a TMDb API key in order to use this script. To register for an API key click here. Once you register an account this will help you to request and find your API key. (This is an one time process. Once you obatin your API key you need to enter it to the script when it ask for the key and that's it.)
To remove the poster icon from a folder, just delete the .ico and desktop.ini file from the folder. desktop.ini file is hidden by default. Therefore make sure you have Show Hidden Items option ticked.
# clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/sameera-madushan/PosterPy.git
# change the working directory to PosterPy
$ cd PosterPy
# install the requirements
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python posterpy.py
- Please ⭐️ this repository if this project helped you!
- Contributions of any kind welcome!
PosterPy is made with ♥ by @__sa_miya__ and it is released under the MIT license.
Thanks goes to this wonderful person. ❤️
 Siddharth Dushantha |
Movie posters are powered by themoviedb.org