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Hi guys,

I am a MAC user and have been using the GUI to rename my movies for a while now however I want to automate this process.

I have little to no experience with creating scripts. So any help would be great!

I want to rename my movies and download english subs.

I dont want to move/relocate them just rename and subtitle.

Where do I start??

TA

Read this:
http://www.filebot.net/cli.html

Fetch subtitles: Rename movies: Done.

rednoah wrote:Read this:
http://www.filebot.net/cli.html

Fetch subtitles:

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filebot -get-missing-subtitles -non-strict -r /path/to/movies

Rename movies:

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filebot -rename -non-strict --db themoviedb -r /path/to/movies

Done.

Thanks for your reply - but again I'm a total noob so I have no idea what to do with that. The instructions page does not tell you either. Do I save it as a file in textedit?

tmanto02 those are ran from the command line/terminal. You'll need to change "/path/to/movies" to the path of the folder that contains your movies. It'll will expect that only movies are in the folder, so don't have any TV series episodes mixed in the folder.

bonelifer wrote:tmanto02 those are ran from the command line/terminal. You'll need to change "/path/to/movies" to the path of the folder that contains your movies. It'll will expect that only movies are in the folder, so don't have any TV series episodes mixed in the folder.

Thanks for you help mate, however when i do this terminal says:

-bash: filebot: command not found

If you don't have an alias that links to the filebot.sh yet it won't find that command. Instead just use the absolute path to filebot.sh (somewhere in the app bundle).

rednoah wrote:If you don't have an alias that links to the filebot.sh yet it won't find that command. Instead just use the absolute path to filebot.sh (somewhere in the app bundle).

Is it called install.sh?

install.sh will link filebot.sh into /usr/bin/filebot so it's recognized in the terminal. Maybe it's just called filebot, anyway, there's an executable that'll let you run filebot in terminal.

-get-missing-subtitles doesn't work for me when I have every movie in a separate folder. Is there anyway to let this command look into each folder?

vanhouten035 wrote:-get-missing-subtitles doesn't work for me when I have every movie in a separate folder. Is there anyway to let this command look into each folder?

if you feed it the top directory it should search subtitles for all video files in all subdirectories

It's just -get-subtitles now and it's doing what -get-missing-subtitles used to do by default now. It will only fetch subtitles for the given files/folders though.

If you want to recursively fetch subtitles for all directories and subdirectories you should use the suball script.