IMDb-Interests repo

What's all this then

Kometa's imdb_search interests: filter needs a name -> in-id map to translate friendly interest names into the in######## IDs IMDb's GraphQL advancedTitleSearch expects. That catalog changes over time (IMDb currently exposes 313 interests; Kometa's historical hardcoded map had 211). Rather than hand-maintain it, Kometa fetches a live copy at runtime from:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kometa-Team/IMDb-Interests/main/INTERESTS.json

(see interests_url in modules/imdb.py), falling back to the bundled interest_options_fallback snapshot if the fetch fails.

Files

• generate_interests.py — queries IMDb's public GraphQL interestCategories catalog and writes INTERESTS.json ({normalized_name: in-id}, keys lowercased with spaces/hyphens -> underscores).
• update-interests.yml — a scheduled GitHub Action (weekly + manual) that runs the generator and commits INTERESTS.json when it changes.

To wire it up

1. Create the Kometa-Team/IMDb-Interests repo (default branch main).
2. Copy generate_interests.py to the repo root.
3. Copy update-interests.yml to .github/workflows/update-interests.yml.
4. Run it once (manually via workflow_dispatch, or python generate_interests.py) to create the initial INTERESTS.json.

The same generator can be used to periodically refresh Kometa's bundled interest_options_fallback in modules/imdb.py.