Book file naming with Filebot

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DigidocTN
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Book file naming with Filebot

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I have a good selection of books (perhaps 30,000). Some are audio, some ebooks, some comics. I have never attempted to use Filebot on these files. Is there a way to retrieve meta-info and add the genre to the book names? For instance, I have the following:

🗀Starsea Cycle 04 The Chosen Of The Manifold
Starsea Cycle 01 The Mages of Starsea.rar
Starsea Cycle 02 The Orb of Binding.rar
Starsea Cycle 03 The Rifts of Binding.rar

I wish to have:

🗀Starsea Cycle 04 The Chosen Of The Manifold [Sci-fi, Fantasy]
Starsea Cycle 01 The Mages Of Starsea [Sci-fi, Fantasy].rar
Starsea Cycle 02 The Orb Of Binding [Sci-fi, Fantasy].rar
Starsea Cycle 03 The Rifts Of Binding [Sci-fi, Fantasy].rar

For folders, add genre to the end. For RAR files, add genre before the final .rar. Would this be possible or am I just dreaming? Are there meta-data lookups for books?
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You will have to build your own solution to some degree, but you can do this from FileBot and a custom format. Custom Scraper will get you started.

The key is the metadata lookup. You might know a website where you can search via the file name and then scrape the details from a webpage. The Audible example does exactly that. You could also try with LLM AI and natural language and see if that works. The ChatGPT example will be relatively easy to adapt but you will have to buy usage credits and it might not always work the way you want.
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