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Posted: **27 Sep 2025, 19:59**

Stewart wrote:27 Sep 2025, 15:37 Hi Rednoah
Can filebot change file created metadata to match release date in jellyfin?

Thanks in advance

Stewar

rednoah wrote:27 Sep 2025, 16:36 I think you mean to set the Last-Modified and Creation-Date to the episode airdate / movie release date. The Set creation date feature will do just that.

PS: Please create a public thread if possible.

Hi rednoah

where do I put "--apply date" in filebot?

Thanks

Stewart

Posted: **28 Sep 2025, 02:29**

rednoah wrote: ↑14 Sep 2019, 20:35 Post-processing features can be enabled for newly renamed files via Renaming Settings ➔ Post Process.

If you're using the Desktop application, then you can enable the Set creation date feature via

Renaming Settings ➔

Post Process and ticking the Set creation date item.

Posted: **28 Sep 2025, 10:31**

Hi rednoah

Do i have to rename again with jellyfin preset and tick set creation date in post proccessing to change date added in jellyfin?

Thanks

Stewart

Posted: **28 Sep 2025, 11:58**

Assuming that files have been renamed with FileBot, and thus have xattr metadata readily available, Apply Post-Processing Features via Filter can be used to run the Set creation date at any time on a selected set of files.

rednoah wrote: ↑14 Sep 2019, 20:35 Post-processing features can be applied to an existing set of files via Attributes ➔ Apply assuming that xattr metadata is readily available.

Posted: **29 Sep 2025, 06:03**

Hi rednoah

Thank you for info how to change file attributes which i have got working fine.

I have set in jellyfin to use file creation date for date added but does not seem to work without removing file and adding back into jellyfin?

I wanted to know if filebot could change date added to date created in jellyfin metadata?

Regards

Stewart

Posted: **29 Sep 2025, 08:45**

Stewart wrote: ↑29 Sep 2025, 06:03 I wanted to know if filebot could change date added to date created in jellyfin metadata?

FileBot has no built-in way of talking to Jellyfin. Although what you want to do might be possible via a custom post-processing script we'd first have to figure out how to directly interface with Jellyfin and modify its internal database.

Posted: **29 Sep 2025, 09:17**

Hi rednoah

That would be great but i would not know how to do that, thanks anyway i will have to go through all my movie and do it manually in jellyfin

Thanks for you quick responses

Regards

Stewart

Posted: **29 Sep 2025, 12:54**

Well... looked easy at first, but did take quite a few hours in the end. The Jellyfin API is insane and stupid. Updating tags with API fails and corrupts item and api.py#L24 did help though and it got it working.

[Script] Set Jellyfin DateCreated property

Posted: **29 Sep 2025, 18:44**

Hi rednoah

Thanks a lot but can I just run this script or do I need to edit to suit my setup if so where ?

Please advise

Regards

Stewart

Posted: **29 Sep 2025, 19:48**

You'll need to adjust the first few lines to match your Jellyfin server configuration:

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def host = '127.0.0.1'
def port = 8096
def auth = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

Posted: **30 Sep 2025, 15:36**

Hi rednoah

I tried the following but did not work for me
Def host 192.0.168.6
Def port 8096
def auth I copiied and pasted from api in jellyfin api’s

What have i done wrong?

Regards

Stewart

Posted: **30 Sep 2025, 17:44**

How did you run a test? I guess I was doing test runs in the editor using a previously renamed file as sample file. It has occurred to me that if you organize files with FileBot, then Jellyfin might need a while to refresh. We change the date added property on the item if the item hasn't been added yet.

Please try the revised [Script] Set Jellyfin DateCreated property code. The code will now start by asking Jellyfin to refresh its libraries and then wait for 15 seconds. Hopefully that'll make it work right after Rename.

Posted: **30 Sep 2025, 18:35**

Hi rednoah,

I have created user script using your code and edited first few lines as below.

def host = 192.0.168.06
def port = 8096
def auth = 1aa3449d1862402f92bb6e5d6e4aab58 Note! (This in red solid box white lettering is this highlighting an error?)

I then tick this user script in post processing section to execute when renaming files

Regards

Stewart

Posted: **30 Sep 2025, 19:13**

Looks like you stripped the '...' that delimit the String value. That won't work.

Example code is this:

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def host = '127.0.0.1'
def port = 8096
def auth = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

So your code should be this

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def host = '192.0.168.06'
def port = 8096
def auth = '1aa3449d1862402f92bb6e5d6e4aab58'

That should work. For testing and debugging you can also run the code in the script editor. That'll use the most recently renamed files as sample data and give you some debug output. It'll also tell you about syntax errors.

Posted: **30 Sep 2025, 19:43**

Hi rednoah,

Ran script after delimiters and now works great

Thanks that's save me a lot of time

Regards

Stewart

Posted: **30 Sep 2025, 21:23**

Hi rednoah

Sorry it’s still not working thought it was but looked at some that i changed myself

Dont see any syntax errors so dont know why its not working

Any ideas

Regards

Stewart

Posted: **01 Oct 2025, 05:52**

You can add a few println to see what's happening / not happening:

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def host = '192.0.168.6'
def port = 8096
def auth = '1aa3449d1862402f92bb6e5d6e4aab58'

// refresh and wait
curl "http://${host}:${port}/Library/Refresh", [:], Authorization: "MediaBrowser Token=$auth"
// sleep 15000

// get all items
def r = curl "http://$host:$port/Items?Recursive=true&Fields=Path,Genres,SortName,Studios,Writer,Taglines,LocalTrailerCount,OfficialRating,CumulativeRunTimeTicks,ItemCounts,Metascore,AirTime,DateCreated,People,Overview,CriticRating,CriticRatingSummary,Etag,ShortOverview,ProductionLocations,Tags,ProviderIds,ParentId,RemoteTrailers,SpecialEpisodeNumbers,MediaSources,VoteCount,RecursiveItemCount,PrimaryImageAspectRatio", Authorization: "MediaBrowser Token=$auth"

// index items by folder name / file name
def index = r.Items.findAll{ it.MediaType == 'Video' }.groupBy{ it.Path.toFile().getRelativePathTail(2) }
println "INDEX: ${index.size()}"

model.each{ source, target ->
	println "FILE: ${target.getRelativePathTail(2)}"

	// lookup item by folder name / file name
	index[target.getRelativePathTail(2)].each{
		println "UPDATE: $it.Id"
		it.DateCreated = d.format(/yyyy-MM-dd/)
		// update item
		curl "http://$host:$port/Items/$it.Id", it, Authorization: "MediaBrowser Token=$auth"
	}
	?: "FILE NOT FOUND: $target"
}

What does the output say when you run it in the script editor for testing? A working run might look like this:

Posted: **01 Oct 2025, 14:36**

Hi rednoah,

Think I copied and pasted correct but see log below

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Run Script
POST http://192.168.0.5:8096/Library/Refresh {}
GET http://192.168.0.5:8096/Items?Recursive=true&Fields=Path,Genres,SortName,Studios,Writer,Taglines,LocalTrailerCount,OfficialRating,CumulativeRunTimeTicks,ItemCounts,Metascore,AirTime,DateCreated,People,Overview,CriticRating,CriticRatingSummary,Etag,ShortOverview,ProductionLocations,Tags,ProviderIds,ParentId,RemoteTrailers,SpecialEpisodeNumbers,MediaSources,VoteCount,RecursiveItemCount,PrimaryImageAspectRatio
INDEX: 5311
FILE: The Lost Century - And How to Reclaim It (2023) [tmdbid-1136906]/The Lost Century - And How to Reclaim It (2023) - 1080p.mp4
[FILE NOT FOUND: /Volumes/Media/Movies/The Lost Century - And How to Reclaim It (2023) [tmdbid-1136906]/The Lost Century - And How to Reclaim It (2023) - 1080p.mp4]
DONE

Yes ip address is correct told you the wrong one sorry

I think file not found looks like error?

Regards

Stewart

Posted: **01 Oct 2025, 15:51**

According to the log, your Jellyfin library does not contain the file at hand:

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The Lost Century - And How to Reclaim It (2023) [tmdbid-1136906]/The Lost Century - And How to Reclaim It (2023) - 1080p.mp4

You can use the following code to see the file paths that are in your Jellyfin library:

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def host = '192.168.0.5'
def port = 8096
def auth = '1aa3449d1862402f92bb6e5d6e4aab58'

def r = curl "http://$host:$port/Items?Recursive=true&Fields=Path,Genres,SortName,Studios,Writer,Taglines,LocalTrailerCount,OfficialRating,CumulativeRunTimeTicks,ItemCounts,Metascore,AirTime,DateCreated,People,Overview,CriticRating,CriticRatingSummary,Etag,ShortOverview,ProductionLocations,Tags,ProviderIds,ParentId,RemoteTrailers,SpecialEpisodeNumbers,MediaSources,VoteCount,RecursiveItemCount,PrimaryImageAspectRatio", Authorization: "MediaBrowser Token=$auth"

r.Items.findAll{
	println "[$it.MediaType] $it.Path"
}

Posted: **01 Oct 2025, 19:16**

Hi rednoah

Path Reported was as follows

/volume1/Media/Movies/The Lost Century - And How to Reclaim It (2023) [tmdbid-1136906]/The Lost Century - And How to Reclaim It (2023) - 1080p.mp4

This is correct and where all my movies are?

Regards

Stewart

Posted: **01 Oct 2025, 21:49**

That can't be right. It's either in the list or it isn't. It can't be both. Unless something changed over time.

What does the output say for this one? I've added even more debug output:

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def host = '192.168.0.5'
def port = 8096
def auth = '1aa3449d1862402f92bb6e5d6e4aab58'


// refresh and wait
curl "http://${host}:${port}/Library/Refresh", [:], Authorization: "MediaBrowser Token=$auth"
sleep 5000

// get all items
def r = curl "http://$host:$port/Items?Recursive=true&Fields=Path,Genres,SortName,Studios,Writer,Taglines,LocalTrailerCount,OfficialRating,CumulativeRunTimeTicks,ItemCounts,Metascore,AirTime,DateCreated,People,Overview,CriticRating,CriticRatingSummary,Etag,ShortOverview,ProductionLocations,Tags,ProviderIds,ParentId,RemoteTrailers,SpecialEpisodeNumbers,MediaSources,VoteCount,RecursiveItemCount,PrimaryImageAspectRatio", Authorization: "MediaBrowser Token=$auth"

// index items by folder name / file name
def index = r.Items.findAll{ it.MediaType == 'Video' }.groupBy{ it.Path.toFile().getRelativePathTail(2) }
println "INDEX: ${index.size()}"

model.each{ source, target ->
	def key = target.getRelativePathTail(2)
	if (key in index) {
		// lookup item by folder name / file name
		index[key].each{
			println "UPDATE: $it.Id"
			it.DateCreated = d.format(/yyyy-MM-dd/)
			// update item
			curl "http://$host:$port/Items/$it.Id", it, Authorization: "MediaBrowser Token=$auth"
		}
	} else {
		index.each{ k, v -> println "* [$key] ≠ [$k]" }
	}
}

println ""

That'll either print UPDATE or * [A] ≠ [A] and the latter can't possibly be because A = A.

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