Grilo

Thanks for using Grilo!

What is Grilo?

Grilo is a framework for browsing and searching media content from various sources using a single API.

Where can I find more?

We have a wiki page

You can discuss in our support forum

You can join us on the IRC:

#grilo on GIMPNet

How do I start?

Once you have Grilo installed, you may want to play around with the examples (See section "Examples") or check its documentation and tutorials (See section "Documentation").

Fedora

sudo dnf install grilo

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S grilo

Others

Otherwise you have to download Grilo's source code from GNOME's repository and build it -don't worry, it takes only a few seconds-, see the section below if you want to do that.

Building from git

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo.git
cd grilo
meson . build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install

Examples

If you are looking for some example to play with you can try grilo-test-ui, a simple GTK+ based test application for testing purposes. You can find it under tools/grilo-test-ui. It allows users to:

• Browse predefined content categories from browseable sources (like "Youtube", "Jamendo" or "UPnP").
• Search content by text on searchable sources (like "Youtube", "Jamanedo" or "Flickr").
• Query sources using source-specific syntax (for sources implementing this feature).
• Organize and define the source's content hierarchy (for sources implementing this feature like "bookmarks" or "podcasts").
• Check available metadata for the media.

For this application to work you need some Grilo plugins that act as media sources, that is, plugins that provide the actual content that you will browse and search using the application. You can get a bunch of plugins for Grilo from the grilo-plugins page

If you are looking for a step-by-step guide from beginning to end, here it is:

Building Grilo-Plugins

Check the Grilo-Plugins README file for instructions

Compiling/Running grilo-test-ui

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo.git
cd grilo
meson . build
ninja -C build
./build/tools/grilo-test-ui/grilo-test-ui-0.3

License

grilo is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later. Check the sources themselves for individual copyrights and licenses.

Enjoy!