Automatically Renaming and moving torrents

[ExtremePC]

Hi Guys,

Wouldn't it be good if there was a script or app that would automagically rename downloaded torrents of TV Episodes and moved them into an appropriate folder.
ie. if you downloaded the latest episode from the ficticious new show called Last its usually called something like:

Last.S03E23.HR.HDTV.XviD-CTU.avi

Now if you ran said app on it, it would be nice if the file was renamed to:

23. Through the Rabbit Hole (2).avi

And automagically moved to \\Server\TV Shows\Last\Season 3\

The filename can be parsed for all the details like:
TVShowName
SeasonNumber
EpisodeNumber
Using the parsed results you could do a scrape against http://www.epguides.com/TVShowName and parse the resultant page for the EpisodeName.

Then you could rename the file in all sorts of combinations of TVShowName, SeasonNumber, EpisodeNumber, EpisodeName. The combination would probably come from some type of config file you could edit and set your preference.

Moving the file would also be fairly easy so long as there is an existing directory structure or it might test to see if the directory exists and if it doesnt dump it into an unsorted folder like \\Server\TV Shows\Unsorted\

You could even have your favorite torrent client run the app automatically when its finished downloading, most allow you to do that these days.


Just some thoughts.

[Rumbaar]

I'm sure you can rename the save files name directly when you first launch the torrent. So technically the only thing script/app would/should need to do is move it into the appropriate location. But for that you would need to know all the information on the file before you initiated the save.

I like the idea tho and have thought about something similar in the past. uTorrent has the move after download feature but it's a global setting and not individual file setting.

[arkay]

So what's this "Last" about?

Is it any good?

Cheers,

Arkay.

[simbot82]

I have heard that Last has sparks of sheer brilliance and then dulls you to death for 2 weeks

Extreme, check out "btrenamer" and get in touch with the author. He released an app for download and then removed it but on 1st May made a forum post asking if he should release it.

[Z0r0b]

I've been thinking about doing this for ages. Set Az to copy downloaded files to some directory. After download, run a prog to unrar, rename and move files to other directory based on some ini file somewhere. I've just been too lazy to do it.

[arkay]

I just spent an hour cutting perl code to see how easy this would be. It sounds simple. But it isn't. The html output from epgguides is all over the place.. Had it working for "Last" but when I tried it for "23" it failed.... It seems too inconsistent. I'd hate to imagine the amount of code you'd have to write to get it to be reliable. If you know of a site that lists episode numbers,names and descriptions in a comma delimited standard format that would be real nice..

Cheers,

Arkay.

[supafly]

would be terrific if there was a plugin/app that could do this, for now im just renaming by hand (like everyone else), i tend to name them like this:

Entourage: S03 E19 - The Prince's Bride

[simbot82]

http://www.matthew.ath.cx/cgi-bin/ma...tml?btrename+1

Check this one out, might try and get this working

[Z0r0b]

Originally Posted by arkay

I just spent an hour cutting perl code to see how easy this would be. It sounds simple. But it isn't. The html output from epgguides is all over the place.. Had it working for "Last" but when I tried it for "23" it failed.... It seems too inconsistent. I'd hate to imagine the amount of code you'd have to write to get it to be reliable. If you know of a site that lists episode numbers,names and descriptions in a comma delimited standard format that would be real nice..

Cheers,

Arkay.

html from epguides seems quite straight forward to scrape. The TV listing is space delimited and appears to be fixed format as well (at least it is for last, 23 and 2 other shows i checked).

I looked at the source of http://epguides.com/23/ and http://epguides.com/last/ and the tv listing data is consistent:
* episode number, pos 7 (5 chars - SS-EE where SS is season and EE is episode, left padded with space - eg. " 3- 3" season 3 episode 3)
* episode name, pos 40 to end of string (extract text from <a> tag).

To find the line in the source, look for the line with matching episode number at pos 7. Doubt that you would get more than 1 match (if you do the spacing right).

I checked a few other shows and they were all consistent with this format.

[arkay]

Wasn't what I saw between last and 23.

Just had another look though and it does appear to be consistent. Hmmm. Pity I deleted the code I wrote in a fit of "WTF?"

I might have another look at this.. Would be a sweet way of populating the mythTV database with valid descriptions for any show... and of course could be useful as a torrent re-namer

Cheers,

Arkay.