flinck 0.3.0

Sort your movies on filesystem using symlinks.

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[flingk]

verb tr. To create a symlink to a movie (flick)

Description

CLI tool to organize your movies into a browsable directory tree offering fast access by dates, imdb ratings, etc

Features

• smart extraction of movie name from its folder/file, use IMDB api to get infos

• sane limited set of configuration options, yet highly flexible directories resulting structure

• possible to split links into alphabetical buckets (A-C, D-F, etc) for large libraries

Install

flinck is written for Python 2.7 and Python 3.

Install with pip via pip install flinck command.

If you’re on Windows and don’t have pip yet, follow this guide to install it.

Usage

usage: flinck.py [-h] [-l LINK_DIR] --by
                 {country,director,decade,genre,rating,runtime,title,year}
                 [{country,director,decade,genre,rating,runtime,title,year} ...]
                 FILE|DIR

Organize your movie collection using symbolic links

Example: flinck ~/Movies --by genre rating

More infos on Wiki

Configuration

~/.config/flinck/config.yaml corresponding to the screenshot above :

link_root_dir: '/Volumes/Disque dur/Movies'

genre:
    dirs: true
    buckets: true

rating:
    link_format: %rating-%year-%title
    dirs: false
    buckets: true

decade:
    dirs: true

Top settings:

• link_root_dir: where the folders tree will be created. Must exist beforehand.

• file_extensions: files types to consider. Default: ['avi', 'm4v', 'mkv', 'mp4']

• file_min_size_mb: files whose size is below that threshold are ignored. Default: 20

• google_api_key: your Google API key (to enable the Google Custom Search backend)

Then, you can define a section for each metadata field you want to sort by. Inside it, available settings are :

• root: root dirname (or relative path from link_root_dir) for this metadata field. Default: the metadata field name.

• link_format: symlink naming format. Default: %title-%field

• dirs: put symlinks into an intermediary directory named after the field value. Default: no

• buckets: put symlinks into a parent matching directory if it does exist. Any directory that contains the field value or defines a matching range is valid. A range is defined by [] chars, eg [A-D] directory matches Drama genre field value.