guessit 2.0a3

GuessIt - a library for guessing information from video filenames.

GuessIt

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GuessIt is a python library that extracts as much information as possible from a video filename.

It has a very powerful matcher that allows to guess a lot of metadata from a video using its filename only. This matcher works with both movies and tv shows episodes.

For example, GuessIt can do the following:

$ guessit "Treme.1x03.Right.Place,.Wrong.Time.HDTV.XviD-NoTV.avi"
For: Treme.1x03.Right.Place,.Wrong.Time.HDTV.XviD-NoTV.avi
GuessIt found: {
    "title": "Treme",
    "season": 1,
    "episode": 3,
    "episode_title": "Right Place, Wrong Time",
    "format": "HDTV",
    "video_codec": "XviD",
    "release_group": "NoTV",
    "container": "avi",
    "mimetype": "video/x-msvideo",
    "type": "episode"
}

Important note

GuessIt 2 has been rewriten from scratch and is currently in Alpha. GuessIt is now a release name parser only, and support for additional features like hashes computations has been dropped.

To migrate from guessit 0.x or 1.x, please read MIGRATION.rst.

Previous version of GuessIt is still available in 1.x branch and using pip install guessit<2, but won’t be maintained anymore.

Install

Installing GuessIt is simple with pip:

$ pip install guessit

Filename matcher

The filename matcher is based on Rebulk and is able to recognize many properties from the filename. Guessed values are cleaned up and given in a readable format which may not match exactly the raw filename.

Usage

guessit can be use from command line:

$ guessit
usage: -c [-h] [-n] [-Y] [-D] [-L ALLOWED_LANGUAGES] [-C ALLOWED_COUNTRIES]
      [-E] [-T EXPECTED_TITLE] [-f INPUT_FILE] [-v] [-P SHOW_PROPERTY]
      [-a] [-j] [-y] [--version]
      [filename [filename ...]]

positional arguments:
  filename              Filename or release name to guess

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Naming:
  -n, --name-only       Parse files as name only, considering "/" and "\" like
                        other separators.
  -Y, --date-year-first
                        If short date is found, consider the first digits as
                        the year.
  -D, --date-day-first  If short date is found, consider the second digits as
                        the day.
  -L ALLOWED_LANGUAGES, --allowed-languages ALLOWED_LANGUAGES
                        Allowed language (can be used multiple times)
  -C ALLOWED_COUNTRIES, --allowed-countries ALLOWED_COUNTRIES
                        Allowed country (can be used multiple times)
  -E, --episode-prefer-number
                        Guess "serie.213.avi" as the episodeNumber 213.
                        Without this option, it will be guessed as season 2,
                        episodeNumber 13
  -T EXPECTED_TITLE, --expected-title EXPECTED_TITLE
                        Expected title to parse (can be used multiple times)

Input:
  -f INPUT_FILE, --input-file INPUT_FILE
                        Read filenames from an input text file. File should
                        use UTF-8 charset.

Output:
  -v, --verbose         Display debug output
  -P SHOW_PROPERTY, --show-property SHOW_PROPERTY
                        Display the value of a single property (title, series,
                        videoCodec, year, ...)
  -a, --advanced        Display advanced information for filename guesses, as
                        json output
  -j, --json            Display information for filename guesses as json
                        output
  -y, --yaml            Display information for filename guesses as yaml
                        output

Information:
  --version             Display the guessit version.

It can also be used as a python module:

>>> from guessit import guessit
>>> guessit(u'Treme.1x03.Right.Place,.Wrong.Time.HDTV.XviD-NoTV.avi')  # doctest: +ALLOW_UNICODE
MatchesDict([('title', 'Treme'), ('season', 1), ('episode', 3), ('episode_title', 'Right Place, Wrong Time'), ('format', 'HDTV'), ('video_codec', 'XviD'), ('release_group', 'NoTV'), ('container', 'avi'), ('mimetype', 'video/x-msvideo'), ('type', 'episode')])

MatchesDict is a dict that keeps matches ordering.

Command line options can be given as dict or string to the second argument.

GuessIt only accept unicode string, so you need to use u prefix for input string on python 2.

Support

This project is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/wackou/guessit

Docs will be available soon availabe ReadTheDocs.

Contribute

GuessIt is under active development, and contributions are more than welcome!

1. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug. There is a Contributor Friendly tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very familiar with the codebase yet.
2. Fork the repository on Github to start making your changes to the 2.x branch (or branch off of it).
3. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
4. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :)

License

GuessIt is licensed under the LGPLv3 license.

History

2.0a3 (2015-11-08)

• Allow rebulk customization in API module.

2.0a2 (2015-11-07)

• Raise TypeError instead of AssertionError when non text is given to guessit API.
• Fix packaging issues with previous release blocking installation.

2.0a1 (2015-11-07)

• Rewrite from scratch using Rebulk
• Read MIGRATION.rst for migration guidelines.