Wishlist for New Features and Scripts

Post by **rednoah** » 19 Jan 2013, 03:06

Hi,

Here's me trying another angle to make this project economically feasable, as opposed to being just being blackhole for time. I'd love to spend more time on FileBot and other ideas for tools that just help people save time and do fun stuff instead. Free open-source software is a grand-and-lofty idea and totally makes sense to me, then again here it's really just one guy working thousands of hours pretty much for free, that makes less sense.

So I though maybe if people really want certain features, that I don't really care for much and are not worth my time anyway, how about sponsoring my work?

Proposed Features:
* Rename music videos by scraping last.fm
* Rename wizard for sorting completely messed up stuff
* Some way of dealing with "Name - 1x01 - Title 1 - Title 2 - Title 3" kind of multi-episode naming
* GUI for fetching artwork
* GUI (or maybe just a script) for checking for missing episodes
* utorrent-postprocess: auto-delete torrents from utorrent on complete and move files
* utorrent-postprocess: support Growl notifications
* utorrent-postprocess: support fetching artwork and nfo files per episode
[DONE] utorrent-postprocess: support Pushover notifications => Sponsored by Aaron Johnson

Groovy Scripts and Automation:
* Trouble with scripting things the way you want? I can probably get it done in a fraction of the time you'd need.

Or anything else you'd like to get done?

If you have any thoughts or ideas just post ahead.

TQwan · Post by **TQwan** » 15 Mar 2013, 16:34

I suggest you implement support for
http://www.subtitleseeker.com

It seems to have the most subtitles for almost every release, since they index other subtitle websites.

Intergration into your project should be relatively easy since they have a XML & JSon web API: http://www.api.subtitleseeker.com/

They also support url based searching, http://www.subtitleseeker.com/tools/webmasters/
So if you don't want to wait on a API key you can just scrape the website with something like Tag Soup, HtmlUnit, Web-Harvest or jARVEST.

I'll also donate 5€ if you implemented this.

Post by **rednoah** » 15 Mar 2013, 16:55

You do realize that, while there is an API for search, in order to actually download subtitles I'd still have to write a scraper for each and every subtitle website? Even for 500€ I couldn't be bothered with maintaining that!

Grumpy · Post by **Grumpy** » 23 Mar 2013, 16:57

* GUI for fetching artwork

this would be nice along with nfo

still using EMM for all of that, would be nice to have it all in one tool

Deadmano · Post by **Deadmano** » 25 Mar 2013, 19:08

Dunno if this has been suggest or is in the works, but I see Filebot automatically excludes (grays out) files with the .txt extension when present in a folder with the video file you wish to rename... However when there is a .nfo file Filebot will treat it as an actual video file and try to rename it as its video counterpart...

What would be cool is if we could exclude certain files we want by creating a .txt file for Filebot to look through (like a robots.txt) for now, and later on have a GUI for it so we can manually add/edit exclusions? For me the only issue is .nfo files, I haven't tested what happens with other files, they're probably greyed out by default?

I know some users like to have .nfo's as mediacenters such as XBMC can pull info from them, but I'm not one of those lucky few users.

So is there anything I can do about this besides manually removing the files each time? Also what would be cool, is when running the scan for renaming, that it not only automatically renames the files you put into the GUI, but also the files excluded (greyed out) so it does a sort of a cleanup, nothing left behind (especially awesome when moving from one drive to another! Or even a share!).

Just a thought.

As usual, awesome work Reinhard!!

Post by **rednoah** » 25 Mar 2013, 20:50

Nope, not gonna delete files. Only people smart enough to use cmdline and the cleaner script should be able to batch delete files.

GUI's logical as it is. If you only wanna rename some files (e.g. search for *.avi) then only drop those files in. If you don't wanna rename .nfo files just don't drop them in.

Deadmano · Post by **Deadmano** » 27 Mar 2013, 21:39

Point taken! But when it comes to a variety of movie file types, such as .avi, .mp4, .mkv etc, it tends to get slightly repetitive, but yet again much easier than not using Filebot at all! I just thought there was a way to automate the process, like when batch renaming hundreds of files and not having to manually filter.

Nonetheless, thanks ever so much for the reply, and once again thank you for creating one of the most essential programs used today! You rock!

Post by **rednoah** » 28 Mar 2013, 03:21

I'm pretty sure you can create a search folder for .avi OR .mp4 OR .mkv then you have a kinda virtual folder (called library on win 7) that'll only contain video files without any folder structure.

With scripting you can of course very easily build in that filter. Just can't think of a universal / smart / non-clutter way to build that into the UI. Not gonna add a "Rename only Video Files" button, that way I might as well add a thousand options that people would then waste time on figuring out what they do.

EDIT:
You can do that check in your format though. As a very simple example:

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{ext =~ /avi/ ? episode : fn}

For .avi files use default episode formatting, for everything else use original filename.

koztya · Post by **koztya** » 11 Jun 2013, 10:18

Would be good to add possobility to make manual associations for episode renaming.
I.e. I load files, then select name of serial, and associate episodes manually.

Post by **rednoah** » 11 Jun 2013, 10:57

FAQ:
http://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7

Video Tutorials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJca0ipOCAg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TaKjKnuYvc

koztya · Post by **koztya** » 12 Jun 2013, 09:29

yes, I know how to enter name of serial manually, but I'm talking about another topic - manually associate individual episodes with files.

Post by **rednoah** » 12 Jun 2013, 12:18

Also in the video... takes 2 minutes => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJca0ipOCAg

1. grab the episode list via episodes panel
2. align files/episodes manually

koztya · Post by **koztya** » 14 Jun 2013, 11:27

wow, thank you very much. really sorry that didn't find that in video

PhantomHelix · Post by **PhantomHelix** » 16 Jun 2013, 19:25

I was wondering if it would be possible to have filebot output a plain text file (during the rename process) of the original file names and the names they were changed to and have it placed into the directory where the files end up (if the files are moved for instance)

I know i could just take that info from the history but having it automagicaly done would be nice

something like this:

filebot result.txt

####################################
Filebot renaming list
####################################

Chuck - 01 Chuck Versus the Intersect - 720p.mkv -->> S01E01 - Chuck Versus the Intersect.mkv
Chuck - 02 Chuck Versus the Helicopter - 720p.mkv -->> S01E02 - Chuck Versus the Helicopter.mkv

####################################

Post by **rednoah** » 17 Jun 2013, 01:03

I guess you'd have to write a filebot script that checks through the history and writes some text files. Shouldn't be more than 4-5 lines.

Reneg · Post by **Reneg** » 14 Jul 2013, 09:21

Hi , I like the new forum , good job.

I want to suggest (if possible), to add a function to check which kind of 3D video is included in a MKV file like (H-SBS or H-TAB) and than add this TAG when renaming.
This function will be usefull in Plex Server.

Thank You
René

Post by **rednoah** » 14 Jul 2013, 10:24

In the Format Editor / Bindings Viewer you can check all properties MediaInfo can grab from movie files.

If you can find the video property that would tell me what kind of 3D movie it is let me know. Or how does Plex know it's a 3D movie? Is there 2 video streams? Is there a special video property that i can read with mediainfo?

ashfallen0 · Post by **ashfallen0** » 16 Jul 2013, 13:39

Grumpy wrote:* GUI for fetching artwork

this would be nice along with nfo

still using EMM for all of that, would be nice to have it all in one tool

XBMC scraper is one step above DIY, so getting the nfo/artwork in the GUI (perhaps as a checkbox []Fetch NFO/ART) when doing large rename jobs will kinda force XBMC to find stuff right.

Post by **rednoah** » 16 Jul 2013, 15:01

Heard MediaElch is doing a good job and nice and comprehensive GUI for artwork and info. Haven't tried it but with filebot naming everything nicely these tools should be doing a good job.

Post by **bonelifer** » 21 Jul 2013, 05:23

I personally use Ember Media Manager which can be found on the XBMC forums.

nephisto · Post by **nephisto** » 14 Aug 2013, 20:00

How much money are we talking about for adding and maintaining www.undertexter.se as a subtitle provider? Opensubtitles does not have nearly as many swedish subtitles.

Post by **rednoah** » 15 Aug 2013, 08:38

I'm pretty sure they have an API in which case I don't mind implementing and maintaining support. If later on you feel like donating because of that be my guest.

It's all Swedish though. Mind pointing me to the docs for the APIs? Or how I can access their subtitle search/fetch/upload functions programatically?

PS: I'll be in Yunnan till 17 August till 1 September so it'll have to wait till I'm back in Taipei.

nephisto · Post by **nephisto** » 15 Aug 2013, 13:50

rednoah wrote:I'm pretty sure they have an API in which case I don't mind implementing and maintaining support. If later on you feel like donating because of that be my guest.

It's all Swedish though. Mind pointing me to the docs for the APIs? Or how I can access their subtitle search/fetch/upload functions programatically?

PS: I'll be in Yunnan till 17 August till 1 September so it'll have to wait till I'm back in Taipei.

Okay, sounds nice enough. I'll be sure to send you my second donation if undertexter.se starts working.

I dont have any knowledge in programming whatsoever so ill post a few links that i found and you tell me if thats enough. Ive also sent undertexter.se an email asking for an api since i couldnt find any info on their homepage about it.

https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/undertexter

https://github.com/oleander/Undertexter

https://github.com/paguini/UndertexterAPI

Post by **rednoah** » 15 Aug 2013, 16:39

Looking at these Ruby projects I see that they're all scraping data from the html website so I assume undertexter does not have an API. Sorry but I don't do scrapers anymore.

nephisto · Post by **nephisto** » 16 Aug 2013, 00:03

rednoah wrote:Looking at these Ruby projects I see that they're all scraping data from the html website so I assume undertexter does not have an API. Sorry but I don't do scrapers anymore.

Yeah supposed it's that way. Ill post again if i hear back from undertexter.se but i thank you for trying anyways

ChilliNr1 · Post by **ChilliNr1** » 20 Aug 2013, 21:03

Hi there,
I`m new here and first of all I`d like to thank you for this great time saving tool!!!
I`m from Germany and my problem is, when the files are found on the database, they will be renamed with ä, ö and ü instead of ae, oe and ue.
Is it possible to configure filebot to replace these letters?
Thank you in advance!

Post by **rednoah** » 23 Aug 2013, 03:48

You can try using the ascii() function or just do your own replacement logic. It's all in the format expression, just look at the examples and adapt to your needs.

Retexks · Post by **Retexks** » 02 Sep 2013, 12:17

I posted this in another thread but wanting to add it to the wishlist, support for the <AliasNames> field from the TVDB API.

Post by **rednoah** » 02 Sep 2013, 12:19

I'm planning on adding full support for aliases so the matching logic can take aliases in consideration as well. This gonna affect many different areas within filebot so it's gonna take a while.

dcassidy · Post by **dcassidy** » 11 Sep 2013, 15:43

Verification. I was wondering if there are any plan for providing functionality to assess the completeness of 'series' of episodes.

Supposing you have (in a File Tree) let's say 20 documentary series (or TV drama series for that matter). You would however like to 'report' on the completeness of those series. You may start by taking for example the following steps. (I will assume that the episodes have been renamed using e.g. TheTVDB ! Thus: A history of the source is maintained!)
1. FileBot - List - Load the first folder (sub-folder) containing the series and you see what you have. Save the List as e.g. MySeries_1_List.txt
2. FileBot - Episodes - 'Find' the related episodes of that series. Save the List as e.g. MySeries_1_Episodes.txt
So, manually you can compare through two notepad sessions or a comparison tool what's matching and what's missing (Notwithstanding the issue of the format of the episode names in the 2 text files.

A nice feature would be to go to a function or 'Tool'..under e.g. FileBot - Analyze...load the File Tree and have a 4th Tool Tab 'Verify' (After Archives, Disks, Types) called Verify (or something similar) to perform this functionality at one click of a button.
I realize that you always have to ultimate challenge in comparison of the old 'apples' and 'pears' chestnut...but with a few assumptions like 'From which source was the file 'Renamed' (e.g. TVRage) and of course the FileFormat used (so these would have to be stored as well ?) it may be possible.

Of course, if I am overlooking a neat way of achieving this functionality that I have overlooked I would be obliged to be advised.

Cheers,

Desmond.

Post by **rednoah** » 11 Sep 2013, 15:58

This is what I've come up with in a minimum amount of code:
http://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic ... =869#p5518

It's basically 3 lines of groovy so don't expect the world.

dcassidy · Post by **dcassidy** » 14 Sep 2013, 15:52

Excellent...many thanks...still getting to grips with this groovy script...I guess knowing Java would be a help !!!

RandmTask · Post by **RandmTask** » 27 Sep 2013, 05:55

Filebot quite often (for me) does not accurately scrape the correct match in RENAME.

This can be difficult to see when you are renaming to another directory

Suggest having a toggle button r option for whether to show the full path or just the filename in the NEW NAMES window. This would make it much easier to compare whether the file is matched correctly while also being able to check the path if desired

Thanks

Brodieman · Post by **Brodieman** » 31 Oct 2013, 11:42

How about shell integration? I attached a reg file you can run that will do it (at least in my format), but an option in the program to turn it on and off would be cool. Right now I can right click a file and rename it based on my format, rather than having to open the program. Then people can changed to their own format easily.

This is a simple "root" of the right click, not sure if you can write a shell extension for "subfolders" under the right click for TV, Movies....

Thanks for this by the way, I love filebot.

Post by **rednoah** » 31 Oct 2013, 14:35

Thanks for the samples.

Here's what I came up with:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\Rename Episode\command]
@="cmd /c filebot -rename -r \"%1\" --db TheTVDB -non-strict --log-file context.log"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\Rename Movie\command]
@="cmd /c filebot -rename -r \"%1\" --db TheMovieDB -non-strict --log-file context.log"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Import to Video Library\command]
@="cmd /c filebot -script fn:amc \"%1\" --output \"%%USERPROFILE%%\\Videos\" --action move -non-strict --log-file context.log --def artwork=n clean=y"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Fetch Artwork for TV Shows\command]
@="cmd /c filebot -script fn:artwork.tvdb \"%1\" --log-file context.log"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Fetch Artwork for Movies\command]
@="cmd /c filebot -script fn:artwork.tmdb \"%1\" --log-file context.log"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Fetch Subtitles\command]
@="cmd /c filebot -script fn:suball \"%1\" -non-strict --lang en --log-file context.log"

Because of the multi-platform nature I don't intent to add this to the application itself. But I'll provide the .reg file for people that would like these context actions.

Brodieman · Post by **Brodieman** » 03 Nov 2013, 13:06

victorroman · Post by **victorroman** » 04 Nov 2013, 15:46

Hello,
I first want to say thank you for making FileBot. It is truly awesome and saves me so much time, its so flexible and very good at what it does.

There are a couple of features that I would like that would help with a few "corner cases" that I run into from time to time and I hope they are not too difficult to implement.

First, it would be nice to have an argument like "--conflict confirm" that would pop up a dialog to confirm any conflicts. I realize that command line is typically used to avoid the gui but sometimes it is not correct and I personally would not mind confirming everything if it is just a simple "OK" with a drop-down of possible matches. Or maybe a new command-line argument like "--confirm {never, always, conflict}"

Second, I would like to be able to bring up the normal GUI via command line but have it loaded with a list of files to match that i provide via the command line arguments. I could not see a way to do this, maybe i missed it. Sometimes the file names are so completely mangled that I have to match it manually. If i could select a bunch of files and bring up filebot with that list as command line arguments that would be really nice.

If these are not trivial and you don't have the time to do it I understand, thanks anyways.

Again thank you so much for making this tool, it is truly awesome.

-VR

Post by **rednoah** » 04 Nov 2013, 16:49

1.
There will be no CLI operations with GUI mixed in. This can easily be scripted (like in the artwork.* scripts) based on existing CLI functions, i.e. run in test mode, confirm with user, run again in rename mode.

2.
I don't see starting filebot with args being more efficient that just dragging in selected files. You do use Drag-n-Drop right? Like in my video tutorial.

victorroman · Post by **victorroman** » 05 Nov 2013, 05:28

Thanks for taking the time to respond rednoah.

1: If it would be too much work then never mind, thanks anyways. Out of curiosity, can I ask why you would never want to run a gui even though the application was invoked command line? I realize that the cli is meant for automation, even in a head-less environment. However the CLI is very useful and can be used for automation with other tools that have gui elements (like FileMenu tools which i talk about below). It still has uses even in a gui environment.

2: No I dont use drag & drop. From within uTorrent i right click the torrent and open the containing dir. Then i use a tool called FileMenu Tools so i can right-click the file directly and that gives me an option on the right-click context menu to run FileBot with command line arguments i have setup (similar to the uTorrent run command).

Why not run the command automatically through uTorrent you ask? Well it has never worked right for me... i have spent a lot of time messing with it to get to work (reinstalled utorrent, run as admin, futzing with bat / groovy scripts...etc) but it simply does not run the command. The utorrent log says that it runs it but it does not.... that is not your problem however, nor do i care to solve it. I kinda prefer it this way because i download a lot of the same stuff and i like to screen things before i rename / move them over to my media server. Also, some things i download never end up going to the media server... so automatically moving them is not always ideal for me.

So, anyways, after all that, i wanted to be able to add another right-click option to run filebot with the files i have selected and i could do that if i could pass them in via command line.

I realize I am asking for things that are for my specific use case. If any of this happens to line up at all with some other objectives you have then great, if not and you are not willing to include them, no worries. The software is great as is, I was just trying to eek out a little more efficiency in my setup.

btw just donated 20 euros to show my thanks for making filebot. It's not much but hopefully it will pay for a few drinks as thanks for all the time you saved me. Cheers

Post by **rednoah** » 05 Nov 2013, 10:11

1.
CLI must be simple and clean. Also passing parameter would be rather limited. By CLI i mean the basic cmdline operations -rename -extract -get-subtitles etc, if you need advanced logic, or any kind of GUI controls as part of your logic, then it can all be done with groovy scripting. The artwork.* scripts do that already. So it'll be quite easy to add that later but i don't have time for fringe features right now.

2.
I figure most of your customizations would be quite easy to script. But you'd have to be a bit comfy with Groovy.

3.
About running filebot from utorrent there might be some hint in the AMC troubleshooting notes or FAQ. But I guess it's already working out for you.

Willi · Post by **Willi** » 14 Nov 2013, 17:41

I'm a movie and TV show Lover and Filebot has made that experience all the better to help me organised my Movie collection.

I have seen some posts in different forums asking to add Trailer download feature that can be used as an option, similar to post art. I would love to hear it is in the works to be able to use this option when sorting and organizing my movie collection along with a trailer. Perhaps a plug in that does something similar?

E.g. Couch Potato V2 does an awesome job of downloading trailers, much better than V1, and it would be nice...super nice to have the same option in Filebot so we can stick to this to one tool without any tradeoffs. Trailer can be used to decide wich movie to watch within an Plex application as an example.

Is someone else said earlier, it's how they decide what to watch. When you only have a couple of movie nights a week, you want to make the most of it.

Thank again for this great tool!

Post by **rednoah** » 15 Nov 2013, 09:03

The current TheMovieDB info I get does include youtube/apple trailers, but they do make it difficult to just download the video files.

I guess hd-trailers has some download links that work but i won't implement anything based on scraping web pages (unless someone want's to fund the work, and subsequent updates every time the page layout changes).

jeremyk · Post by **jeremyk** » 03 Dec 2013, 09:55

Hi

Feature request:
Filebot is, as we all know fantastic at renaming files. How about it also renames the directory in which the files are held?

I had many files in directories like 'shrek-the-third-oXXo-torrent' and in there was the file similarly named. An option to rename the directory too would be very cool.

Suggestion:
I for one appreciate all the work and effort that goes into this. You deserve a financial reward.
a) Limit the number of file fixes in a 24 hour period to say 5 for eval versions
b) Simply charge a low price say $10 (There must be a few thousand users out there) for a license
c) Have a premium feature set that costs.

Additional features that would be useful:
Have Filebot catalog video and audio files
Have Filebot help manage disk utilisation
Have Filebot manage duplicates
Have Filebot move the file to a target after rename

Anyway, its a great product. If you can build in a folder rename option that would make me very happy.

Cheers
Jeremy

Jeremy

Post by **rednoah** » 03 Dec 2013, 12:05

You can easily do something similar to folder-renaming by just organizing files into a new folder structure using the format. The only downside is that empty folders remain, but since they will be in a different folder structure u can either ignore them or delete all once in a while, or use the cleaner script.

I'll look into your suggestions, does make sense.

jeremyk · Post by **jeremyk** » 03 Dec 2013, 13:27

Hi rednoah

Whilst your suggestion is easily achieved using the CLI, I have not found a way to do it in the Gui console. Most user will not get to involved with the CLI.

Is there a way to do this in the gui?

Jeremy

Post by **rednoah** » 03 Dec 2013, 13:31

You just define an absolute path in the format. Then your files will be moved there, into the folder structure as defined by your format.

Just make sure the new path is in a different folder.

e.g.
From: X:/Downloads/...
To: X:/TV Shows/...

If there's empty folders in Downloads you can just delete the whole folder once in a while. Or ignore them, as empty folders don't take space.

jeffj · Post by **jeffj** » 18 Dec 2013, 23:29

I looked for this option and could not find it.

Could you include a way to define exclusions for file types whilst renaming.

For example, my laziness has ended up with pretty poor file naming that i am trying to resolve. However When i select a whole folder to rename it bites me in the butt as it will try to rename NFO files, txt files, RAR files and so forth. If these files all reside in the same directory, i get naming conflicts.

adding an option to only try to rename known media file types or the ability to make exclusions to file extensions would be absolutely brilliant!

Thanks! and Thank god for Filebot!

Post by **rednoah** » 19 Dec 2013, 06:06

Are you talking about the GUI?

Q: How can I make FileBot only process video files? i.e. ignore artwork, nfo files, etc
That's easy, just selectively drag in the files you want. Search by *.avi OR *.mkv, then select everything and drag it into FileBot. Alternatively you can use the Analyze panel to group files by extension and then drag over the groups of files you'd like to rename.
Alternatively you can also drag in a text file that contains only the paths you want to process.

From CLI you would do the same with some basic scripting.

ChilliNr1 · Post by **ChilliNr1** » 22 Dec 2013, 14:56

ChilliNr1 wrote:Hi there,
I`m new here and first of all I`d like to thank you for this great time saving tool!!!
I`m from Germany and my problem is, when the files are found on the database, they will be renamed with ä, ö and ü instead of ae, oe and ue.
Is it possible to configure filebot to replace these letters?
Thank you in advance!

Hello again,

I`m still having the problem above and no solution.
Can anyone describe me the way to rename the files with ae, oe and ue instead of ä,ö and ü?
I`ve tried something but I can`t figure it out.

Many thanks and Happy Holidays!

Post by **rednoah** » 22 Dec 2013, 16:06

ascii()
Convert Unicode to ASCII. (e.g. "Österreich" -> "Osterreich" or "カタカナ" -> "katakana").

Use ascii() function:

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{t.ascii()}

Or just replace:

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{t.replaceAll('ä', 'ae')}

FYI WRONG THREAD

ChilliNr1 · Post by **ChilliNr1** » 22 Dec 2013, 21:35

rednoah wrote:
...Or just replace:
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{t.replaceAll('ä', 'ae')}

Hi,
thank you so much. Replacing worked very well.
You saved me a lot of work in future.
Greetings!

Keef · Post by **Keef** » 26 Dec 2013, 19:41

I would like to request support for renaming e-books. My wife has ThOUSANDS of e-books. Some alphabetized using the first name and some using the last name. If there was a way to scan them and rename them like I do with my TV shows it would be awesome!

Post by **rednoah** » 27 Dec 2013, 05:10

Any ideas where the metadata would come from? Is the some sort of TheTVDB/TheMovieDB for eBooks?

If you just wanna rename pdf by title metadata it's easy. Wrote a script for that:
http://filebot.net/scripts/sort.ebooks.groovy

Doomguard · Post by **Doomguard** » 28 Dec 2013, 15:17

Maybe can use filebot to soft home photo into date taken or so on?

Post by **rednoah** » 28 Dec 2013, 15:48

Nothing really, I'd be custom logic like the sort.ebooks script above. But since you can access mediainfo data from scripting you can easily move/rename according to metadata.

matiasrpf · Post by **matiasrpf** » 31 Dec 2013, 02:28

My suggestion is that you add www.addic7ed.com , it is where i find the new episodes' subtitles the sooner.
Plus, it has a subtitle for a lot of different episode versions (and for a lot of languages).
If you added it, Filebot would be perfect.

Post by **bonelifer** » 31 Dec 2013, 05:33

matiasrpf wrote:My suggestion is that you add http://www.addic7ed.com , it is where i find the new episodes' subtitles the sooner.
Plus, it has a subtitle for a lot of different episode versions (and for a lot of languages).
If you added it, Filebot would be perfect.

Can't happen until they provide an API: it was recently request on Dec 1st, 2013, so obviously they don't currently have one: http://www.sub-talk.net/topic/463-make- ... d/?p=21532 Unless something has changed I think it's unlikely to happen per this post: http://www.sub-talk.net/topic/1444-addi ... ic/?p=9355

Post by **Ithiel** » 01 Jan 2014, 00:43

I noticed that subliminal supports Addic7ed (among others) - maybe checking out how they did it could shed some light on the situation?

https://preview-pypi.python.org/project/subliminal/
https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal
http://subliminal.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

There's also a subliminal synology app that someone else made (http://www.synocommunity.com/packages#subliminal) but it doesn't seem to get updated as often, and has a few bugs that render it unusable for me (bombs out when it finds accented characters lol), but there might be something there that can help expand on what FileBot can do.

Edit: Hopefully if we can add some other subtitle sources, we'll still be able to download what we need when opensubtitles goes down every few minutes, lol.
I managed to get a few subbies this morning, and since then, nothing but /!\ symbols :'-(

Post by **bonelifer** » 01 Jan 2014, 04:53

If they don't have an API, that means a "page scrapper", and rednoah has said on many occasions that he's not going down the page scrapping route. From the last link I find "BeautifulSoup to parse HTML and XML", which seems to suggest page scrapping.

Post by **rednoah** » 01 Jan 2014, 09:43

Yep, plus technically scraping their page is equal to stealing their data, and I don't quite feel like an enabler for this (not that I couldn't do it in a few hours

)

I'm pretty sure no one of addic7ed.com will ever official allow and encourage anyone to scrape their data. Until they do so I don't I won't be an ass helping people steal there stuff.

Post by **Ithiel** » 01 Jan 2014, 10:14

ah phooey :-/

Well, a bit of digging has turned up these fellas that do seem to have an API:

http://thesubdb.com/api/
http://www.allsubs.org/api.php
http://www.api.subtitleseeker.com/

With any luck, some of them may actually have a decent sized database, and more than a 100 subtitles/12 hour anti-leech limit, lol.

vetash · Post by **vetash** » 16 Feb 2014, 20:10

Please add movie scrapper for kinopoisk.ru for russian users

Post by **Ithiel** » 17 Feb 2014, 07:31

Hi vetash,

Please see the above comments regarding scrappers. Unless the site offers an API to legally 'give' you the data, rednoah does not want to create a scrapper to illegally 'take' it.

That being said, assuming it's official (and not just a fan made scrapper), I think this may be what he'd need to make it happen: https://github.com/ramusus/kinopoiskpy

~Ithiel

vetash · Post by **vetash** » 18 Feb 2014, 22:38

Ithiel wrote:Hi vetash,

Please see the above comments regarding scrappers. Unless the site offers an API to legally 'give' you the data, rednoah does not want to create a scrapper to illegally 'take' it.

That being said, assuming it's official (and not just a fan made scrapper), I think this may be what he'd need to make it happen: https://github.com/ramusus/kinopoiskpy

~Ithiel

Ok, got it. Thanks anyway.

SLiX · Post by **SLiX** » 31 Mar 2014, 09:56

Hey, me again. Found this thread so I don't have to open a new topic.

Concerning amc script again: AMC copies the data anyway.
My folder structure looks like this: data/finished.
AMC scans "data" and copies all data into "finished" Both folders are on the same HDD.
Is there an option to "MOVE" instead of "COPY" operations? It would be much faster in my case

Thanks in advance

Post by **rednoah** » 31 Mar 2014, 10:52

So you mean like --action move right? Though if it's on the same drive you should look into --action hardlink which is like --action copy except with none of the drawbacks.

Montago · Post by **Montago** » 28 Apr 2014, 17:49

(also posted as a thread)

My Windows 3.1 machine doesn't support colon ':' in filenames... neither does Windows 95, 98, XP, 2000, 2003, Vista, 7 nor 8.1...

So could you please auto-replace colon ':' with a minus '-' (preferably also with a padded space in case the colon is up close to the main title)

eg: "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - S01E01" is clearly not valid - which FileBot already know and a prompt will popoup.. However, I cant find a setting that auto-correct these titles !!

the obvious solution would be to replace : with - like this (padded):
"Cosmos - A Spacetime Odyssey - S01E01"

This would be AWESOME !... just like FileBot .. Goddamn AWESOME !!!!

Thanks

duffkins · Post by **duffkins** » 13 Jun 2014, 09:43

nfo creating functionality for movies, just to a simple nfo file containing the link to the imdb page would do.

i.e. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258463/

Montago · Post by **Montago** » 13 Jun 2014, 09:47

duffkins wrote:nfo creating functionality for movies, just to a simple nfo file containing the link to the imdb page would do.

i.e. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258463/

You should try Ember Media Manager .. it does that, and alot more.

Post by **rednoah** » 13 Jun 2014, 10:01

Manual wrote:--def extras=y Generate *.url files and fetch all available backdrops

If you just want .url files then filebot can generate them for you.

zaunfink · Post by **zaunfink** » 31 Aug 2014, 09:39

*GUI (or maybe just a script) for checking for missing episodes

How much for a gui option that handles special characters etc. and perhaps works for movie collections as well?

I'm lazy.

As for the ebook-thing. Calibre works, although it's manual-like and goodreads might be something to parse information from. Considering the xthousand ways ebooks are named though.... That'd be a hell of a lot of work.

Post by **rednoah** » 31 Aug 2014, 09:45

1.
There's a script for that.

2.
No idea what you mean, but I'm pretty sure it's supported already.

3.
Unless there's an API for book information I won't even look into this. Plus the lack of naming standards would make it difficult anyway.

Unsoluble · Post by **Unsoluble** » 21 Oct 2014, 05:07

Hi there!

Just picked up FileBot (Mac App Store version), and have already completely cleaned house in my media folders — many thanks!

Wondering: What are the chances we'd be able to apply OS X tags to files as they're renamed? Would love to embed metadata on this layer (tag/colour-coding for HD vs. SD, for example), instead of inline in the filename.

cheers,
john

Post by **rednoah** » 21 Oct 2014, 05:50

I might be inclined to write a Groovy script for auto-tagging files at some point, just to see if it's doable. But at this point I don't intend to add this feature to the GUI Application.

EDIT:

Use at your own peril

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filebot -script dev:xattr /path/to/media --action import

This script will import all kinds of tags into Finder (collection, series, y, source, vf, sdhd, genres, etc). It'll only work on files that have been previously renamed (and xattr tagged) with FileBot.

Not gonna clutter the UI with useless gimmicks like this though.

Unsoluble · Post by **Unsoluble** » 26 Oct 2014, 18:20

Hmm!

Are there more/different arguments that can be passed? I'm not really clear on how to determine all the options a particular script exposes.

Thanks

Post by **rednoah** » 26 Oct 2014, 19:23

Nope, there's no other arguments. You can look at the script itself if you wanna know more.

Unsoluble · Post by **Unsoluble** » 26 Oct 2014, 19:26

One more: Where are the scripts located?

Post by **rednoah** » 26 Oct 2014, 19:29

@see http://www.filebot.net/script.html
@see https://github.com/filebot/scripts

Unsoluble · Post by **Unsoluble** » 26 Oct 2014, 19:31

Oooohhh, I totally just noticed that the canonical scripts are on the web, and not stored locally. Roger. Thanks again!

vletroye · Post by **vletroye** » 05 Nov 2014, 22:49

I am in the process of renaming 1190 movies... and think about a possible improvement (maybe already suggested? But not found using google).

Matching so many files takes time... And each time filebot cannot automatically match a file with one movie, it stops and prompts me before continuing. So, I can't let it work alone and come back much later or watch a movie without being interrupted..

An idea could be to postpone the "prompts" until all files have been handled... I.e.: similar to moving files nowadays with Windows and being prompt for conflicts only when all files without conflict have been moved.

Doing so, time spent interacting with filebot would be minimized

V.

Post by **rednoah** » 06 Nov 2014, 00:30

That's already there. To a degree, due to parallel processing. If you have 4 cores there'll be 4 threads and up to 4 "prompts" will queue up. Let's say you want to force 32 processing threads when you only have 1-2 cores. In this case you can set -DthreadPool=32 which incidentally is configured that way if you run FileBot with the FileBot (platform) configuration.

That being said. FileBot GUI is made to be interactive. FileBot CLI is made to be non-interactive. If you want non-interactive processing you should be using the CLI.

EDIT:

Scratch that. What you want is already done that way. In movie mode things will continue in the background even if there's a blocking dialog visible. So you can wait for all the network requests to finish in background, and then start interacting with FileBot.

vletroye · Post by **vletroye** » 07 Nov 2014, 18:00

Great! (+ Great architecture too).

And thx for the explanation.

V.

Mech_Man · Post by **Mech_Man** » 12 Nov 2014, 13:02

Feature request: Export/Import settings
(per my other thread: http://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2184)

Used for Backing Up and-or Transporting to another computer, the Format Expressions and the Preferences and anything else that's customized by the user.

Thanks for this super great tool!

itsuia · Post by **itsuia** » 28 Dec 2014, 01:48

Feature request:

* Embedded version of Java.
This would alleviate any and all issues people have with this program regarding Java (I see your FAQ is filled with them).

* Allow users to set the path for Java.

Post by **rednoah** » 28 Dec 2014, 12:43

The Mac App Store and Ubuntu Software Center versions of FileBot come with an embedded JRE. So that kind of convenience is reserved for the paid version.

Setting the path for java should be possible one way or another for all operating system, though it's different for each of them.

itsuia · Post by **itsuia** » 28 Dec 2014, 16:20

rednoah wrote:The Mac App Store and Ubuntu Software Center versions of FileBot come with an embedded JRE. So that kind of convenience is reserved for the paid version.

I'm on Windows, I don't see a paid option.

rednoah wrote:Setting the path for java should be possible one way or another for all operating system, though it's different for each of them.

I'm not talking about the global environment path, I'm talking about a direct path to a Java executable for the application itself.

Post by **DavidRTurner** » 03 Jan 2015, 16:23

Feature Request: give GUI Select 'Shows matching ______' wider range

Presently, the 'Select' popup displays the term/word it has found for a given title, returning the shows it could match with that term.
When running just a few shows at a time, it's easy to remember what you're running, and figure out the best match.
But when running dozens of different shows, the Original File list runs past the end of the page, and one can lose track of the titles - and therefore lose track of what would be a good match.
One CAN simply limit the files one searches for to a few dozen at a time...
...but if the popup offered the full filename being searched from, perhaps with the key term found in BOLD, then we could more easily find matches, without having to worry about which file it might be trying to match.

Feature Request: Resizable windows in the GUI

Presently, the Original Files & New Names panes are equal-width.
Typically, the input filenames are not so important to me, so I'd love to be able to minimize that pane's width.
When testing formats, to be able to re-size each pane individually, so I can see the (long) test names without scrolling left/right, would be great!

ALSO: Maybe a word-wrap toggle, within the existing pane widths?
This might be messy on-screen, but toggling it on/off could be useful for those with particularly long formats

Feature Request: Colourized bindings in the GUI

Presently, folders are displayed with different colours, which is great.
If bindings were displayed with different colours, we could see more clearly the effects of tested changes.

As always, keep up the good work!

Post by **DavidRTurner** » 24 Jan 2015, 17:28

Feature Request: Multi-format GUI

The ability to select up to several different formats for a given type (i.e. episode, movies...) would be great!

I use my format with, or without, folders (depending on the collection), and have to switch between them regularly.
In this case, it's easy to dump/comment out the first section of my code; but I can think of circumstances where the code might be desired more variably, and one would need to keep separate files for different code formats.

DrTusk · Post by **DrTusk** » 08 Mar 2015, 21:36

Hi, thanks for making such a great tool. I've been using AMC to organize things, however, I'd like a way to change the output folder based on the series name. For example, I might want Sesame Street episodes to be moved into d:/kids and Dexter into d:/parents. I can probably figure out a way to modify the AMC script to do this, or I could write another script that runs afterwards and moves things. Thoughts?

Post by **rednoah** » 09 Mar 2015, 07:25

You don't need to modify the script, you just need to pass your own format.

e.g.

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--output "D:/Media" --def "seriesFormat={n =~ /Sesame.Street/ ? 'Kids' : 'Parent'}/{n}/{episode}"

Please read the manual. You'll find lots of information about how custom formats work.

Doogie · Post by **Doogie** » 15 Mar 2015, 18:17

Hello,

I already use the fn:amc script with deluge postprocessing, but want to process only movie files, while ignoring all tv shows. Is that already possible?

Post by **rednoah** » 16 Mar 2015, 03:50

Yes. Make a thread.

Normally you'd use labels like "ignore" but since Deluge doesn't pass that piece of information along properly I recommend using --def ignore=pattern instead. Just need to make sure that pattern matches all the TV Shows, easily achieved by downloading things into folder by label.

nikeb · Post by **nikeb** » 25 May 2015, 11:19

Hi

Would be a great idea to put in the email report (or in the log)
the duration time of execution of the command line... what do you think about it?

At least could be helpful for the ones that has nas or external storage.
At the moment in the email report there is this (truly helpful) row:

// Generated by FileBot 4.5.6 (r2818) on [HOSTNAME] at [DATE] [TIME]

Thanks

Post by **rednoah** » 25 May 2015, 14:06

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#!/bin/sh
echo START $(date)
time filebot ...
echo DONE $(date)

sersmax · Post by **sersmax** » 03 Jun 2015, 15:20

Hi,

very nice work you are doing here.
Dont even want to ask how much time you spend on this masterpice.
Anyway...
I think this wish is a hard one and i totaly understand if you dont want to do that:
Could you make a feature that allows us to merge the movies ect. with the subtitle.
So it gets only one file...
I think the most have .mkv or .mp4 and as subtitle .srt
Short:
merge(*.mkv;*.srt)
out: .mkv with sub in it
ofc i would donate for that (10$)

Post by **rednoah** » 03 Jun 2015, 15:31

Sorry, modifying / transcoding files is not in the scope of this project.

There's plenty of other tools for that:

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mkvmerge -o mymovie.mkv mymovie.avi mymovie.srt

@see https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvto ... e.examples

Jindai · Post by **Jindai** » 03 Jun 2015, 22:50

How about a nifty way to fix the colon problem in windows for Validation renaming? a simple offset colon "׃" works fine, youtube videos use this colon, and they download with it, fine, so why not replace a tv show filename like CSI: Cyber with CSI׃ Cyber? Much cleaner, and windows doesn't forbid it.

Post by **rednoah** » 04 Jun 2015, 04:01

Custom replacements can easily achieved in your format. There's lots of examples, especially for simple replacement.

mutley · Post by **mutley** » 18 Jun 2015, 16:31

Support Content / Sports DB. ????

While I used FileBot for TV's and Movies, I've been using my own scripts for renaming and indexing sports content as I have never really found a good source/DB for sports metadata. I recently came across www.TheSportsDB.com and it seems to have a lot of the content I'm after. Before I start writing my own scripts, I wanted to check if this was a DB that FileBot would consider using in it's lookups? It's by far the most comprehensive sports DB/metadata site I've found and seems to be steadily growing.

Thanks.

jobrien2001 · Post by **jobrien2001** » 17 Aug 2015, 05:40

Support for custom file paths based on label.

For example I would like my 3D movies to go on "D:\Movies 3D\" not on "D:\Movies".

thanks