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TutCatalogPy2

https://gitlab.com/iborco-software/tutcatalog/tutcatalogpy2

The second Python iteration (2021–2022, Python/PySide2). Described in its own README as "the fourth incarnation" of TutCatalog. Leans into the SQLite cache for fast access/search and adds proper OS integration (Linux .desktop files + a .tc MIME type), but stayed read-only — editing info.tc and the viewer app were both still TODO when it stopped.

File formats

  • info.tc — per-tutorial YAML sidecar (a full example ships in examples/info.tc): the familiar field set — publisher, title, author list, released, duration, level, url, the boolean flags (complete/todo/viewed/keep/online), tags/extraTags, learning_paths, rating, and a Markdown description.
  • SQLite cache — scanned catalog index (SQLAlchemy; catalog/config.py). Rebuildable.
  • .ini — QSettings app state.
  • MIME: registers application/x-tc for .tc (Linux user-extension-tc.xml) so the file type is recognized by the desktop.

What it did

Scan folders, parse and display info.tc in a cached, searchable catalog. Editing was not yet implemented. Carried a dedicated scrapper tool for seeding metadata from publisher pages.

Compared with rehuco

Capability TutCatalogPy2 rehuco
info.tc sidecar Yes (YAML) .rehu (JSON); .tc adapter (LocalEdit3)
Display fields Yes LocalEdit1 / LocalEdit2
Edit fields TODO (never landed) LocalEdit1 atomic save; LocalEdit2 typed toolkit
SQLite cache + search Yes .rehudb (CacheDB3), browsers (CacheDB4)
.tc file-type association Yes (Linux MIME) LocalEdit1 + file-association pre-work spike (macOS QFileOpenEvent, Windows ProgID/AUMID)
Scraping Yes (scrapper tool) deferred (acquisition tooling)
Duration via ffprobe Yes field LocalEdit2; auto-measure TBD

Can rehuco work for its info.tc?

Yes. Its examples/info.tc is exactly the field set rehuco's field-schema enumerates; the .tc→.rehu adapter (LocalEdit3) handles the renames (tags→advertised_tags, extraTags→extra_tags) and the scalar title/publisher/url→sources fold. The SQLite cache is rebuildable and needs no import.