Trakt.TV images API deprecation about popcorn-api

[ChrisAlderson]

Already aware, I believe @vankasteelj would update his trakt.tv module to get the images from another source, but just to be sure I'll create a module for the Fanart.tv API so we can use that.

[vankasteelj]

I won't update trakt.tv, except remove the images call and so on. The module rests entirely on trakt, so I won't start making calls elsewhere

However, if you wish, you may take a look at trakt.tv addons, like I did for onDeskToWatch and matcher, this way you should be able to interface easily trakt and fanart.tv.

In my tests on Butter, I used fanart.tv :

Common.getImage = function (id, type) {
    var url = 'http://webservice.fanart.tv/v3/';
    var cat = type.indexOf('movie') !== -1 ? 'movies/' : 'tv/';
    var api = <your-api-key>

    return require('got')(url + cat + id + '?api_key=' + api,{json:true}).then(function (res) {
        console.log(res.body)
        var images = {};
        var holder = 'images/posterholder.png';
        if (type.indexOf('movie') !== -1) { //movie
            images.poster = res.body.movieposter ? res.body.movieposter[0].url : holder;
            images.background = res.body.moviebackground ? res.body.moviebackground[0].url : res.body.hdmovieclearart ? res.body.hdmovieclearart[0].url : holder;
        } else { // show
            images.poster = res.body.tvposter ? res.body.tvposter[0].url : holder;
            images.background = res.body.showbackground ? res.body.showbackground[0].url : res.body.clearart ? res.body.clearart[0].url : holder;
        }
        return images;
    }).catch(function(err) {
        console.error(err);
        return {
            clearart: null,
            poster: 'images/posterholder.png',
            background: null
        };
    });
};

but it often answers badly (timeout or such), so I would recommend fallbacks to omdb and/or tvdb

[ChrisAlderson]

Alright thanks for the answer @vankasteelj.

[ChrisAlderson]

Got a fanart.tv-api module so now it's time to implement.

[ChrisAlderson]

Fixed with: 85d4666