Hey dudes, I wanted to share my method to watch Giant Bomb on the big screen.

I have my own plex server running, and I thought I could just create a new section just for Giant Bomb videos.

What you need

• [Premium Giant Bomb account for API access](https://giantbomb.com/profile)

• [Flexget](https://flexget.com/)

• A running [plex server](http://plex.tv/)

Giant Bomb Preimum

• Downloads for videos is restricted to premium member, so you will need to get your api key for the next step.

  • This can be found in the profile page for yourself - you muist click the copy button to retrieve you api key

    

Flexget

• This is a python based local service used to download media from torrents and RSS feeds

  • for our purposes we are using the RSS feed funtion to retrieve Giant Bomb content.

• Below is an example of [the config.yml file](https://flexget.com/en/Configuration) you will need to have in order to run flexget from the command line

  • On windows the path is C:\Users\%userprofile%\flexget\ - config.yml should be stored in this location

• You must replace the <APIKEY> with your actual key for this to work.

• This example will only look for new content from the last 7 days and only download new videos in the specified RSS feeds

  • You can just use the RSS symbol on the upper right-hand side of the site to get a full listing of all feeds you have access to.

    

  • If you click on the '1080p' button for whatever feed you want, it will copy it, and all you need to do is create a new Task in the config file and add the RSS URL.

• The Name structure I set up uses the Series Name with whatever the RSS feed pulls in as the overall title of the video.

Config file example

# ~/.flexget/config.yml
templates:
  # Define options that will be used for all of our tasks below
  global:
    # Download path
    download:
      path: D:\GB\
      temp: D:\GB\temp\

    accept_all: yes # This will ensure any 'undecided' items will be downloaded
    # Ignore duplicate files
    exists:
      - F:\GB\
      - F:\GB\temp\
    #Don't re-download stuff we've downloaded and then deleted
    only_new: yes
    # To only download videos from the past 7 days
    if:
      - rss_pubdate < now - timedelta(days=10): reject
    seen: local

tasks:
  This is the Run:
    rss:
      url: https://giantbomb.com/video-xml/this-is-the-run?api_key=<APIKEY>&quality=1080p
      all_entries: no
      other_fields:
        - description
    limit_new: 2
    set:
      filename: 'This is the Run - {{title|pathscrub}}{{filename|pathext}}'
  9 Lives:
    rss:
      url: https://giantbomb.com/video-xml/9-lives?api_key=<APIKEY>&quality=1080p
      all_entries: no
      other_fields:
        - description
    limit_new: 2
    set:
      filename: '{{title|pathscrub}}{{filename|pathext}}'
  Blight Club:
    rss:
      url: https://giantbomb.com/video-xml/blight-club?api_key=<APIKEY>&quality=1080p
      all_entries: no
      other_fields:
        - description
    limit_new: 2
    set:
      filename: 'Blight Club - {{title|pathscrub}}{{filename|pathext}}'
  Marry Me Tomodachi:
    rss:
      url: https://giantbomb.com/video-xml/marry-me-tomodachi?api_key=<APIKEY>&quality=1080p
      all_entries: no
      other_fields:
        - description
    limit_new: 2
    set:
      filename: 'Marry Me Tomodachi - {{title|pathscrub}}{{filename|pathext}}'
  This is the Run:
    rss:
      url: https://giantbomb.com/video-xml/this-is-the-run?api_key=<APIKEY>&quality=1080p
      all_entries: no
      other_fields:
        - description
    limit_new: 2
    set:
      filename: 'This is the Run - {{title|pathscrub}}{{filename|pathext}}'
  Unprofessional Fridays:
    rss:
      url: https://giantbomb.com/video-xml/unprofessional-fridays?api_key=<APIKEY>&quality=1080p
      all_entries: no
      other_fields:
        - description
    limit_new: 2
    set:
      filename: 'Unprofessional Fridays - {{rss_pubdate|formatdate("%Y%m%d")|re_replace("//","_")}} - {{title|pathscrub}}{{filename|pathext}}'

Plex

• You will need to be running a local Plex Media Server that you have admin access to.

• These are really easy to setup, but does require the host computer to be continuously running for use.

Giant Bomb Library

Things to work on

• Currently I don't see any easy way to pull in the meta data like the description of publishing date to be added to plex.

  • This seems like it requires creating a new metatdata agent in plex and having the data formatted in a specific manner.

• You can also have this run on a schedule but I just run it ad-hoc as my Plex server is in the same room as the TV I use to watch Giant Bomb.