MYTHMETADATALOOKUP(1)

👑 MYTHMETADATALOOKUP(1) — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, welcome to mythmetadatalookup, section 1 of the manual 💖 pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mythmetadatalookup — MythTV metadata lookup 🦋

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this is mythmetadatalookup, and the version we're talking about is fixes/36 🎀 (the full flex string is [v36.0+fixes.20260401.1385cbfc60-0ubuntu3]), and the website is www.mythtv.org 🌈. It's giving "quiet little command with a LOT of opinions about metadata", and honestly? obsessed. 💅

here's everything it can do, no cap, nothing skipped:

🫶 Misc. Options:

• --chanid — says which chanid (channel ID) of the recording you want to operate on. that's it, that's the whole vibe.
• --refresh-rules — also updates inetref for recording rules when metadata is found for a recording. heads up though: this is best effort only, and imperfect 😭 don't @ me.
• --refresh-all — batch update, go off 👑. It batch-updates recorded program metadata, and if a recording's rule has an inetref but the recording itself doesn't, the recording inherits it. cute, right?
• --refresh-all-artwork — batch updates artwork for non-generic recording rules and recordings. This one is the conservative option — it only touches items where it's actually likely to find artwork. And ✨ important ✨: this option will not overwrite any existing artwork. so your existing pics are safe, periodt.
• --refresh-all-artwork-dangerously — okay so 😳 this is the unhinged one. Batch updates artwork for ALL recording rules and recordings. ALL. It'll attempt to download fanart, coverart, and banner for each season of each recording rule and all recordings. Like the conservative one, it will not overwrite any existing artwork. If a rule or recording has not been looked up, this will attempt to look it up. This is a very aggressive option! Use with care. 🚨 like genuinely, mind the warning, bestie.
• --refresh-all-rules — batch updates metadata for recording rules 🔥. This sets inetrefs for your recording rules based on an automated lookup. It's a best effort, and not guaranteed! If your recordings lack inetrefs but one is found for the rule, it will be inherited.
• -h, --help, --usage — shows you this help printout, or, if you've selected an option, gives you detailed info about that specific one. very "let me explain myself" energy 💜.
• --version — displays version information. the classic.
• --starttime — says which start time of the recording you want to operate on. matching --chanid vibes 🎀.

💖 Logging Options:

• --loglevel — sets the logging level. All log messages at lower levels get discarded, so it's a whole filtering situation. In descending order the levels are: emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info, debug, trace. and it defaults to info ✨.
• --loglong — uses the long log format for the console, i.e. it shows the file, line number, etc. in the console log. ngl it's a lot but sometimes you want the details 🫶.
• --logpath — writes logging messages to a file in the directory logpath, with filenames in this exact format: applicationName.date.pid.log. This is typically used together with --daemon, and if you use it together with --pidfile, it can be used with log rotators, using the HUP call to inform MythTV to reload the file 👑. very logrotate main character energy.
• -q, --quiet — don't log to the console (-q). Don't log anywhere (-q -q). double the -q, double the silence 🤫.
• --syslog — sets the syslog logging facility. Set it to "none" to disable, and it defaults to none.
• --systemd-journal — uses systemd-journal instead of syslog. modern girlie behavior 🌸.
• -v, --verbose — specifies log filtering. Use '-v help' for level info 💅.

ok real talk: --refresh-all-artwork-dangerously has "dangerously" in the name for a reason. respect it. 🚨

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and that's the whole page, bestie, every single flag accounted for, nothing left on read 💜 this was mythmetadatalookup version 36.0+fixes.... from August 2026 — slay, drink water, read your man pages 🌈👑✨