tvnamer v2 development

Posted on Mar. 7, 2010 by Ben Dickson.

This is an old post from 2010. The content may be outdated or no longer relevant.

This is an old post I wrote, which was originally posted on neverfear.org on Sun, 7th Mar 2010 14:15:02. Archived here for posterity.

There are 2 comments on this post.

I've been working on a new version of tvnamer , the utility I discussed in "Automatically rename your torrent'd TV episodes" (archive.org link)

It's a pretty much complete rewrite. Some of the new features include:

It's still very much under development. The main functionality is now pretty much stable, there's a few features I'm still working on. I'm currently implementing the file-moving feature, so while it currently works, it may not be stable..

As it is still under development, currently easy_install tvnamer will install the old version 1. To get the latest version, see the README on Github (archive.org link) (ignoring the easy_install part)

You can follow tvnamer v2's progress on github.com/dbr/tvnamer (archive.org link) , and report bugs and request features on Lighthouse (archive.org link)

I haven't checked the comments on the original post (archive.org link) for a while, and was surprised to see about 10 new comments.. I'll reply to them here, as most of the requests are implemented in the tvnamer v2.

Loz (archive.org link) : Could this be extended to move files within a directory structure aswell?

Yes, this feature is currently being developed, as mentioned.

Loz (archive.org link) I use the command line in Linux allot and as such spaces in my file names are a bit of a pain, as such I added this to your script to allow it to strip spaces from the file names and replace them with underscores.

The custom_replacements (archive.org link) feature can do this. The following config ( saved at ~/.tvnamer.json or specified with the --config flag) will replace spaces with underscores in the output filename:

{
    "output_filename_replacements": [
        {"is_regex": false, "match": " ", "replacement": "_"}
    ]
}

Michael (archive.org link) Works very well on Snow Leopard--thank you!

I'd hope so! It's primarily developed on OS X Snow Leopard, using the system-installed Python 2.6. It's also tested on Python 2.5

Mike (archive.org link) it might be useful to OSX users if the script ignored filenames that begin with '._'

Good point, I've created a ticket for this (archive.org link)

James Jarvis (archive.org link) Although one suggestion. Is there anyway you could move the config to a .tvrenamer file in our home directory that way when we do an update we don't have to fix it manually each time? Thanks.

Yep, done. As mentioned, you can now change the default options via a JSON config file

Carlo (archive.org link) I have only a question. I'm Italian, so I would like to have episodes names in Italian.

In thetvdb.com there are also in italian. So I need only to change language ID from english to Italian.

This is settable via the config file.

{
    "language": "it"
}

..will use Italian episode names data, where available

Loz (archive.org link) Secondly are you intrested in testers for this.

Yes, definitely. Best place to report bugs is on tvnamer's Lighthouse project (archive.org link) , as I get notified of new tickets, and can reply directly, close tickets as they are fixed and so on..

Although I prefer Lighthouse, it can be a hassle signing up for yet-another-internet-account, so if you have a Github account, feel free to create an issue on it's Github issues page (archive.org link)

Cato (archive.org link) I am very interessted in getting the move script working. I have tested the autoPathTv script, but I am not using the same naming standard and I am unable to understand how to change from [01x23] to S01E23 or get the tvnamer.move.mod part of the script.

I've not used the autoPathTv command for a while, but you should just change the regexs in filename_config (archive.org link) (specifically tv_regex['with_ep_name'] )

die hard torrenter (archive.org link) So ... that's why there are so many dead torrents out there

Erm, not really. Torrents die because people stop seeding.. It's quite simple to copy the downloaded file to an external drive and run tvnamer on the copied file.. The in-development --move feature will make this even simpler, by having a option to copy the file to another location without touching the original file.