episoder

Episoder

A node.js commandline utility for renaming the files of downloaded TV shows.

This program extracts showname, season and episode infomation from a filename or from user flags and queries the trakt.tv api to get episode title.

Currently only renames to the form Community - S01E04 - Social Psychology.mp4

It should work as a node.js module too, but I haven't really played with it beyond writing tests.

For example, it is able to rename the following files (amongst others):

Community_S01E04.mp4
Community-1x04.mp4
Community.104.mp4
Community - Season 1 Episode 4.mp4

to:

Community - S01E04 - Social Psychology.mp4

Installation

Requirements:

• trakt.tv api key (available at http://trakt.tv/api-docs/authentication)
• node.js
• npm (usually installed with node.js)

sudo npm install -g episoder
sudo episoder --save_api_key 'your-trakt-api-key-goes-here'

Usage

Basic usage:

episoder community-S01E04-ExampleBlagh.mp4

will rename the file Community - S01E04 - Social Psychology.mp4.

In true unix fashion it accepts globbed filenames:

episoder *

Show flag

The --show or -S flag will set a user defined show. If multiple words, please use quotation as per the example

Set custom showname:

episoder --show "parks and recreation" s01e04.avi

renames to Parks and Recreation - S01E04 - Boys Club.avi

Season flag

The --season or -s flag will set a user defined season.

episoder --season 1 archer_2009-04.avi

renames to Archer 2009 - S01E04 - Killing Utne

It will also take words:

episoder --season specials archer_2009-04.avi

renames to Archer 2009 - Specials E04 - Heart of Archness: Part I.avi

It will also take words:

episoder --season specials archer_2009-04.avi

renames to Archer 2009 - Specials E04 - Heart of Archness: Part I.avi

Episode flag

The --episode or -e flag will set a user defined episode.

episoder --episode 4 bobs_burgers_s01e99.mp4

renames to Bobs Burgers - S01E04 - Sexy Dance Fighting

Offset flag

Sometimes the episode info from a filename doesn't quite match up with what's in the trakt.tv database. For example, sometimes pilot episodes are referred to as episode 0 (like in the example) but trakt starts the numbering from 1. If this is the case we can pass an offset value to correct the output.

Set episode offset:

episoder --offset=1 twin_peaks-1x00-pilot.mkv

Renames to Twin Peaks - S01E01 - Pilot.mkv.

Note that although it works for positive numbers without the equality symbol, it won't work for negative numbers, so it is advised to always use --offset= syntax to prevent weirdness.

Force flag

The default behaviour of episoder is to avoid overwriting files. If you really want to overwrite your files, use the --force or -f flag:

episoder --force community-s01e04.mp4

Save api key flag

In order to use the app you will need a trakt api key, available from http://trakt.tv/api-docs/authentication. You can easily save it to the config file in the following way.

episoder --save_api_key "api-key-goes-here"

All this does is create a file in the module's directory called config/traktApiKey.js with the following code:

module.exports = "api-key-goes-here";

Using the --save_api_key flag will clobber any existing file in this spot, so please use with care.