its either that or a MediaAdder plugin for e.g. Goodreads 

but you had to maintain the Goodreads reading list

do you think the current layout would still work if you had all these albums ?

before this can be done the api has to be improved!

besides there is a imdb MediaAdder and trakt.tv watchlist MediaAdder
i was already working on a MediaAdder for the Goodreads shelf but that needs OAuth which makes it a little more complicated
you can find the imdb and trakt.tv MediaAdder in the main plugin repo

• imdb: you just need to enter the "export this list" link from the bottom of you watchlist
• trakt.tv: you need your username, pw and api key

I just thought about this a little more and if this site is live
you could create some form of OAuth that would allow installation of plugins from the web store

Yes that would be the dream...
but it would mean a lot of work besides the core of XDM
i mean user registration and upload and comments and voting ...

I think from the technical point I would leave the implementation of the meta.json
(have you tried the repoJSONmaker.py ?)
and you can register your repo in the "shop" and add screenshots and more
and it could also send emails if it detects updates in the repo but no change log was added by the dev
and latter add the option to upload zips / the full plugin
it really sounds a lot like the chrome store

is there anything you know of that is similar software to what we would need?
also I don't have a dedicated server right now so I would be limited to PHP
which is just not a modern choice if you can code python
maybe django?

implemented in develop

i looked into this already.
the issue is that there is no database that holds information on the magazines
like issue schedule and images, meta information basically

what i found was https://www.freebase.com/
they have entries for my test cases but still no more information
besides connecting to the API of freebase is "complicated" and limited

ps it would be more like the tv plugin

Mhhh DDOS ... That is true and unavoidable if XDM has to get the content to verify the URL
so can this be vital by enforcing a bunch of rules on the URL schema?

maybe only allow "https://raw.github.com" ?