2012-07-11, 10:30
A bunch of times I have to go through the process of renaming folders and files so that they get picked up by the relevant scrapers. For me, using Windows and accessing the box remotely via network, this means dealing with files that are "locked or in use by another process". So I have to then fish the pc out of its nook and find a keyboard and mouse and mess about with files and processes.
What if there was a way to create a template using a regex or other simple pattern matcher that transformed the name of the show on disk and handed the transformed name to the tvdb or movie scraper so that it could look up that name instead. Pretty often naming mismatches are that your show is named "season_1_ep_5" or something and the tvdb is expecting "s01e05" or similar. There'd have to be a simple db to map names on disk to the pattern-transformed name that is being scanned for.
Tools do exist to rename files on disk based on pattern rules, and they still have the limitations of the OS to deal with - e.g. windows and its stupid process/file locking thing that it has always done and I have always hated.
How are these scapers coded? Can I open one up and change the database field that it reads the name of the show from?
What if there was a way to create a template using a regex or other simple pattern matcher that transformed the name of the show on disk and handed the transformed name to the tvdb or movie scraper so that it could look up that name instead. Pretty often naming mismatches are that your show is named "season_1_ep_5" or something and the tvdb is expecting "s01e05" or similar. There'd have to be a simple db to map names on disk to the pattern-transformed name that is being scanned for.
Tools do exist to rename files on disk based on pattern rules, and they still have the limitations of the OS to deal with - e.g. windows and its stupid process/file locking thing that it has always done and I have always hated.
How are these scapers coded? Can I open one up and change the database field that it reads the name of the show from?
