ANT upload checker

What does this script do?

This script is intended to be used on a directory containing films. It scans for films, parses some film properties, and checks whether a given film is already on ANT, and whether it's a duplicate or not. A CSV file will be created by the process, containing your film list. The idea is to help find films in your library that could potentially be uploaded.

Currently the script checks if a film is a duplicate based on resolution, codec and source (AKA media). It also checks if the release group (only if extracted successfully) is on the banned list.

Example CSV output:

How does it work?

The process searches through the given directory (or multiple directories), and finds all common video file formats (currently: mp4, avi, mkv, mpeg and m2ts). Using an existing package called guessit and some additional processing, film titles and their properties are parsed. For each film, a get request is sent to ANT's API, to check whether it can be found already. For certain titles, if an initial match is not found, the title is tweaked and re-searched. For example, films containing "and" could be spelt with "and" or "&", so both titles are checked.

The script outputs a csv file containing a list of films it's found and whether they've been found on ANT or not, and whether they are duplicates.

If an existing film_list.csv is found in the output location specified, any films in this that have already been found on ANT and are marked as duplicates (from version 1.7.0) will be skipped by the process. This means you can re-run the script without having to search through your whole film library again. It will not skip films that were not found on ANT or those that were not marked as duplicates (in case they've since been uploaded).

This is a work in progress - please feel free to give helpful feedback and report bugs.

Known issues

• Non-english films may not be found on ANT if their titles do not match
• Films with ellipsis may not be found. Currently guessit automatically removes these e.g. Tick Tick... BOOM! -> Tick Tick Boom!
• Films with alternate titles (Film X AKA Film Y) will not be found on ANT

Prerequisites

• You must have Python v 3.8 or later installed: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
• You must be a member of ANT
  • Please do not message me for an invite, or open issues requesting one, these will be ignored. ANT Staff is aware of and monitors this repo

How to setup and run ant_upload_checker

1. Optional step: setup a virtual environment (recomended but not required)
   • A virtual environment lets you install a package and its dependencies in a contained area, keeping it seperate from other Python projects on your system. It's good practise to use a virtual environment, but if you're not fussed about running other Python projects, or if you want to install it globally instead, feel free to skip this step (see https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html for more info)
   • Navigate to where you want to store the package
   • From the command line (e.g. Command Prompt) type python -m venv .venv. This should create a folder called .venv containing the virtual environment.
   • Then activate the virtual environment
     • Windows: If in a Command Prompt, type .venv/Scripts/activate. If using PowerShell, type .venv/Scripts/Activate.ps1
     • Linux: source .venv/bin/activate
2. Install the package
   • From the command line (e.g. Command Prompt) type pip install ant-upload-checker. This should install the package from PyPI
3. Run the package
   • Once installed, type ant-upload-checker to run the package
   • You should be asked for your ANT API key - you can paste this in after copying it from ANT
   • You should then be asked to enter your output folder, then your input folder(s).
   • When you run it for a second time, you can skip this stage by selecting "No" when asked whether you want to overwrite your existing settings
4. Check the output file
   • Open the output csv file to see which films already exist on the tracker
   • Please remember this is a work in progress - feel free to report any issues you come across!

How to update to the latest version

Assuming you've already installed ant_upload_checker, type pip install --upgrade ant-upload-checker. If there's a new version available, it should update the version you have installed.

Remember that if you originally installed the package into a virtual environment, you will need to first activate the virtual environment again (navigate to the folder, type .venv/Scripts/Activate.ps1 for Windows or source .venv/bin/activate for Linux)

How to work on the code

If you want to do any development work, don't install from PyPi. Instead:

1. Git clone the repository
2. Setup a virtual environment in the root directory (see step 1 of 'How to setup and run ant_upload_checker').
3. In the command line type pip install -e .[test]. This should install the package and the optional test dependencies.

Planned improvements

• Continue to add more film properties to dupe check
• Continue code refactor, finish adding type hints
• Increase max file path length
• Add automatic torrent creator using torf

See the changelog for recent changes.