`tvnamer`

tvnamer is a utility to rename files from some.show.s01e03.blah.abc.avi to Some Show - [01x03] - The Episode Name.avi (by retrieving the episode name using data from tvdb_api)

It supports Python 3.5 onwards. The last version of tvnamer to support Python 2.7 was tvnamer==3

TV information is provided by TheTVDB.com, but we are not endorsed or certified by TheTVDB.com or its affiliates.

Installing

The "official" way to install tvnamer is via pip:

pip install tvnamer

This installs the tvnamer command-line tool and the requirements from the tvnamer package on PyPI

Alternatively, the community have packaged tvnamer in various platform/distro specific package managers, including:

Homebrew for OS X - brew install tvnamer
Debian - apt-get install tvnamer
FreeBSD/DragonFlyBSD/MacPorts - pkg install py36-tvnamer etc
Nix package manager - nix-env -iA nixpkgs.python37Packages.tvnamer

Although not recommended for general use, see CONTRIBUTING.md for details on installing the unstable development version.

Features

Interactive command line based interface, with a non-interactive "batch" mode for automation.
Comprehensive set of file-name matching patterns
Handles non-ASCII names
Support for anime filenames, such as [Shinsen-Subs] Beet - 19 [24DAB497].mkv
Support for multi-episode files, such as scrubs.s01e23e24.avi
Extensive configuration options (via a JSON config file) and command-line arguments, including output name customising, series name replacements
Support for moving files to specific location after renaming (/media/tv/{series name}/season {seasonnumber}/ for example)

Bugs?

Please file issues on tvnamer's Github Issues page

Please make tickets for any possible bugs or feature requests, or if you discover a filename format that tvnamer cannot parse (as long as a reasonably common format, and has enough information to be parsed!), or if you are struggling with the a custom configuration (please state your desired filename output, and what problems you are encountering)

Basic usage

From the command line, simply run:

tvnamer the.file.s01e01.avi

For example:

$ tvnamer brass.eye.s01e01.avi
####################
# Starting tvnamer
# Found 1 episodes
# Processing brass.eye.s01e01.avi
TVDB Search Results:
1 -> Brass Eye [en] # http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=70679&lid=7
Automatically selecting only result
####################
# Old filename: brass.eye.s01e01.avi
# New filename: Brass Eye - [01x01] - Animals.avi
Rename?
([y]/n/a/q)

Enter y then press return and the file will be renamed to "Brass Eye - [01x01] - Animals.avi". You can also simply press return to select the default option, denoted by the surrounding []

If there are multiple shows with the same (or similar) names or languages, you will be asked to select the correct one - "Lost" is a good example of this:

$ tvnamer lost.s01e01.avi
####################
# Starting tvnamer
# Found 1 episodes
# Processing lost.s01e01.avi
TVDB Search Results:
1 -> Lost [en] # http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=73739&lid=7
2 -> Lost [sv] # http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=73739&lid=8
3 -> Lost [no] # http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=73739&lid=9
4 -> Lost [fi] # http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=73739&lid=11
5 -> Lost [nl] # http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=73739&lid=13
6 -> Lost [de] # http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=73739&lid=14
Enter choice (first number, ? for help):

To select the first result, enter 1 then return, to select the second enter 2 and so on. The link after # goes to the relevant [thetvdb.com][tvdb] page, which will contain information and images to help you select the correct series.

You can rename multiple files, or an entire directory by using the files or directories as arguments:

$ tvnamer file1.avi file2.avi etc
$ tvnamer .
$ tvnamer /path/to/my/folder/
$ tvnamer ./folder/1/ ./folder/2/

You can skip a specific file by entering n (no). If you enter a (always) tvnamer will rename the remaining files automatically. The suggested use of this is check the first few episodes are named correctly, then use a to rename the rest.

Note, tvnamer will only descend one level into directories unless the -r (or --recursive) flag is specified. For example, if you have the following directory structure:

dir1/
    file1.avi
    dir2/
        file2.avi
        file3.avi

..then running tvnamer dir1/ will only rename file1.avi, ignoring dir2/ and its contents.

If you wish to rename all files (file1, file2 and file3), you would run:

tvnamer --recursive dir1/

Command line arguments

There are various flags you can use with tvnamer, run..

tvnamer --help

..to see them, and a short description of each.

The most useful are most likely --batch, --selectfirst and --always:

--selectfirst will select the first series the search found, but will not automatically rename any episodes.

--always will ask you select the correct series, then automatically rename all files.

--batch will not prompt you for anything. It automatically selects the first series search result, and automatically rename all files (identical to using both --selectfirst and --always). Use carefully!

--series-id will allow you to use a specific ID from theTVdb. This can help with name detection issues.

Configs

One of the largest improvements in tvnamer v2 is the ability to have custom configuration. This allows you to customise behaviour without modifying the code (as was necessary with tvnamer v1).

To write the default JSON configuration file, which is a good starting point for your modifications, simply run:

tvnamer --save=./mytvnamerconfig.json

To use your custom configuration, you must either specify the location using tvnamer --config=/path/to/mytvnamerconfig.json or place the file at ~/.config/tvnamer/tvnamer.json

Important: If tvnamer's default settings change and your saved config contains the old settings, you may experience strange behaviour or bugs (the config may contain a buggy filename_patterns regex, for example). It is recommended you remove config options you are not altering (particularly filename_patterns). If you experience any strangeness, try disabling your custom configuration (moving it away from ~/.config/tvnamer/tvnamer.json)

If for example you wish to change the default language used to retrieve data, change the option language to another two-letter language code, such as fr for French. Your config file would look like:

{
    "language": "fr"
}

If search_all_languages is true, tvnamer will return multilingual search results. If false, it will return results only in the preferred language.

For an always up-to-date description of all config options, see the comments in config_defaults.py

Custom output filenames

If you wish to change the output filename format, there are a bunch of options you can change.

The most common is an episode with both a season and episode number. There are two patterns, one for when an episode name is found, and one without the episode name:

One for a file with an episode name (filename_with_episode). Example input: Scrubs.s01e01.my.ep.name.avi
One for a file without an episode name (filename_without_episode). Example input: AnUnknownShow.s01e01.avi

Next, for episodes without a season number:

One for a filename with no season number, and an episode name (filename_with_episode_no_season). Example input: Sid.The.Science.Kid.E11.avi
One for a filename with no season number, and no episode name (filename_without_episode_no_season). Example input: AnUnknownShow.E24.avi

Date-based episodes (which used aired-date instead of episode numbers):

One for date-based episodes (filename_with_date_and_episode). Example input: AnUnknownShow.2000-01-23
Date-based episode without epiosde nam (filename_with_date_without_episode)

Finally, anime episodes have the usual with/without episode names, and again with/without the CRC value:

filename_anime_with_episode - for example, [SubGrp] SeriesName - 02 - Episode Name [CRC1234].ext
filename_anime_without_episode - for example, [SubGrp] SeriesName - 02 [CRC1234].ext
filename_anime_with_episode_without_crc - for example, [SubGrp] SeriesName - 02 - Episode Name.ext
filename_anime_without_episode_without_crc - for example, [SubGrp] SeriesName - 02.ext

This may seem like a lot, but they are mostly the same thing. They all have sensible default values, so you can only change the values you use commonly (say, you could ignore the date-based and anime episodes if you rarely rename such files)

Say you want the format Show Name 01x24 Episode Name.avi, your filename_with_episode option would be:

%(seriesname)s %(seasonno)02dx%(episode)s %(episodename)s%(ext)s

The formatting language used is Python's string f

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