What is this?
Amane is a personal video library manager for the AI era: it watches your media folders, automatically scrapes metadata from multiple sources, and lets you browse the result through a web poster wall with an AI assistant for search and organization.
Amane is a personal video library manager for the AI era: it watches your media folders, automatically scrapes metadata from multiple sources, and lets you browse the result through a web poster wall with an AI assistant for search and organization.Is this a desktop app or a server I host myself?Both — it ships as a native desktop app for macOS and Windows you can download and run directly, and as a Docker image for self-hosted server deployments.
Both — it ships as a native desktop app for macOS and Windows you can download and run directly, and as a Docker image for self-hosted server deployments.How do I get it running?Download the ready-to-use desktop build for macOS or Windows, or deploy the Docker image if you want it running as a server; full instructions are in the user documentation.
Download the ready-to-use desktop build for macOS or Windows, or deploy the Docker image if you want it running as a server; full instructions are in the user documentation.Are the community integrations officially supported?No — community-built tools and plugins are maintained by third parties, and Amane only guarantees its public API; you have to judge their safety and functionality yourself.
No — community-built tools and plugins are maintained by third parties, and Amane only guarantees its public API; you have to judge their safety and functionality yourself.Where does my scraped library data actually live?Amane is local-first: all fetched metadata is persisted on your own machine or server, building a personal film repository instead of relying on a remote service.
Amane is local-first: all fetched metadata is persisted on your own machine or server, building a personal film repository instead of relying on a remote service.What can the AI assistant actually do?It lets you search your library with natural language, batch-organize files, and trigger metadata scraping jobs directly through chat.
It lets you search your library with natural language, batch-organize files, and trigger metadata scraping jobs directly through chat.How does the multi-source metadata scraping work?Amane pulls metadata from several data sources at once and picks the best value field by field, instead of trusting a single source.
Amane pulls metadata from several data sources at once and picks the best value field by field, instead of trusting a single source.What does the image enhancement feature do?It includes a built-in super-resolution tool that upscales and cleans up low-resolution poster images.
It includes a built-in super-resolution tool that upscales and cleans up low-resolution poster images.Are MovieDataCapture and AVDC the same project?No, they are listed as related/prior projects (yoshiko2/MovieDataCapture and moyy996/AVDC) with similar scraping goals; Amane is a separate, newer implementation.
No, they are listed as related/prior projects (yoshiko2/MovieDataCapture and moyy996/AVDC) with similar scraping goals; Amane is a separate, newer implementation.What are similar projects?stash, TikTokDownloader, capcut-mate, autoclip, Kavita, ALH-Pro, Drift, dance-video-to-prompt
stash, TikTokDownloader, capcut-mate, autoclip, Kavita, ALH-Pro, Drift, dance-video-to-promptWhich topics is it in?media-server, metadata, super-resolution, scraper, ai-assistant, video-processing, image-processing, video, dashboard, local-first, gplv3, desktop-app
media-server, metadata, super-resolution, scraper, ai-assistant, video-processing, image-processing, video, dashboard, local-first, gplv3, desktop-app