Humphrey is a project for developing applications and tools for managing a video collection. It will consist of a data backend, various user frontends and utilities. This is the package responsible for handling the data backend. It is by itself not of much value to end-users. As an example of a frontend you can check the humphrey.wx package.
Humphrey keeps the data in an SQL database. At the moment it supports SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL any database supported by SQLAlchemy should be easy to add.
The core package provides the following functionality:
Humhprey is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Please read the gpl.txt file in the docs directory.
Disclaimer 1:
At the moment, Humphrey is in ALPHA stage. Both the data and software design is subject to change. The package is released only as a preview, it is not ready to be used for purposes other than experimenting.
Disclaimer 2:
Humphrey can optionally retrieve movie information from the IMDb. If you use this feature, remember that you MUST respect the IMDb copyright and conditions of use.
Humphrey requires Python 2.5 or 2.6. You can it using easy_install or pip:
pip install humphrey.core
By default, an SQLite database will be used. If you want to use some other database, you have to install its Python interfaces. The interface package for MySQL is MySQL-python and the interface package for PostgreSQL is psycopg2.