[Feature Request]: Import Actor Data from CSV

[graphixillusion]

Importing data from a CSV would be a great addition when you need to add/manage a lot of actors at once, expecially if you already have Names and Aliases for each Actors.

[cooperdk]

Currently, YAPO will import a comma separated list of actors (without aliases) from the Add... view.

Will this suffice, or would you like an auto-importer that fx listens to an import dir and a specific name, and then import a CSV like this:

actorname lastname;actoralias1;actoralias2;...
nextactor lastname;...

The time difference between scraping an actor with or without aliases is very little, and in most cases, YAPO finds the correct actor. It happens that it won't find the actor, though (I have seen it maybe 10 times when adding my list of 8500+ actors)

It would be more interesting, however, if you were to use YAPO for other video handling purposes, although it does search IMDB first.

[cooperdk]

In the (near) future, YAPO will support a listen dir in which you can add files exported from friends' collections etc.
This will support actors, tags and websites.

It will use the same format as a future backup/recovery feature (standard Django relational JSON backups), but combined with an export/import of any photos provided.

[graphixillusion]

@cooperdk what about this: you add a root folder; inside this folder there are many subfolders, each one with the name of the actress: the program will auto add each Actress based on each folder's name. Later on you could add any additional information by csv import, like aliases