Metron-Tagger

Quick Description

A command-line tool to tag comic archives with metadata from metron.cloud.

Installation

PyPi

Or install it yourself:

pipx install metron-tagger

There are optional dependencies which can be installed by specifying one or more of them in braces e.g. metron-tagger[7zip]

The optional dependencies are:

7zip: Provides support for reading/writing to CB7 files.
pdf: Provides support for reading/writing to PDF files.
redis: Provides a Redis-backed rate limiter for the Metron API.

FAQ

How do I use the Redis rate limiter?

Install the redis extra (e.g. pipx install metron-tagger[redis]), and set redis_url and your Metron username (user) in the [metron] section of your settings.ini:
```
[metron]
user = your-metron-username
redis_url = redis://localhost:6379/0
```
The username is required even if you authenticate with an API token, since the shared rate limit is keyed by your Metron account rather than by token (each application usually has its own token). Every metron-tagger process using the same Metron username and Redis server will then share one rate limit, so running several at once won't exceed Metron's limits. If the username isn't set or Redis can't be reached, metron-tagger falls back to its local rate limiter. If Redis fails partway through a run, metron-tagger stops processing the remaining files.

How do I share the rate limit with other mokkari-based software?

Other software using mokkari's RedisRateLimiter will share metron-tagger's rate limit as long as it uses the same Redis server and database, mokkari's default key_prefix (mokkari:ratelimit), and your Metron username as the account name. For example:
```
from mokkari.redis_rate_limit import RedisRateLimiter

rate_limiter = RedisRateLimiter(redis_client, metron_username)
```

What comics formats are supported?

Metron-Tagger supports CBZ, CBR, CBT, CB7 (optional), and PDF (optional) comics.

How to enable RAR support?

It depends on the unrar command-line utility, and expects it to be in your $PATH.

NOTE: unrar only supports reading archives, so you will need to convert the archive to a cbz to write to it. To do so you can use -z, --export-to-cbz and if you want you can remove the orginal .cbr archive with --delete-original after successful conversion.

Help

usage: metron-tagger [-h] [-r] [-o] [-m] [-c] [--id ID] [-d] [--ignore-existing] [--accept-only] [--skip-multiple] [--ignore-modified] [--missing] [-s] [-z] [--validate] [--remove-non-valid] [--delete-original] [--duplicates] [--migrate] [--version]
                   path [path ...]

Read in a file or set of files, and return the result.

positional arguments:
  path                 Path of a file or a folder of files.

options:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  -r, --rename         Rename comic archive from the files metadata. (default: False)
  -o, --online         Search online and attempt to identify comic archive. (default: False)
  -m, --metroninfo     Write, delete, or validate MetronInfo.xml. (default: False)
  -c, --comicinfo      Write, delete, or validate ComicInfo.xml. (default: False)
  --id ID              Identify file for tagging with the Metron Issue Id, or restrict directory matches to issues from a specific Metron Series Id. (default: None)
  -d, --delete         Delete the metadata tags from the file. (default: False)
  --ignore-existing    Ignore files that have existing metadata tag. (default: False)
  --accept-only        Automatically accept the match when exactly one valid match is found. (default: False)
  --skip-multiple      Skip files that have multiple matches instead of prompting for selection. (default: False)
  --ignore-modified    Retag files with an existing Metron ID without using the last modified date, forcing a full refresh from the API. Useful for pulling in changes, such as an updated community rating, that don't update the issue's modified date. (default: False)
  --missing            List files without metadata. (default: False)
  -s, --sort           Sort files that contain metadata tags. (default: False)
  -z, --export-to-cbz  Export a CBR (rar) archive to a CBZ (zip) archive. (default: False)
  --validate           Verify that comic archive has a valid metadata xml. (default: False)
  --remove-non-valid   Remove metadata xml from comic if not valid. Used with --validate option (default: False)
  --delete-original    Delete the original archive after successful export to another format. (default: False)
  --duplicates         Identify and give the option to delete duplicate pages in a directory of comics. (Experimental) (default: False)
  --migrate            Migrate information from a ComicInfo.xml into a *new* MetronInfo.xml (default: False)
  --version            Show the version number and exit

Examples

To tag all comics in a directory with MetronInfo.xml that don't already have one:

metron-tagger -om --ignore-existing /path/to/comics

To remove any ComicInfo.xml from a directory of comics:

metron-tagger -dc /path/to/comics

To validate any metadata, ComicInfo.xml and MetronInfo.xml, would be done by running the following:

metron-tagger -cm --validate /path/to/comics

To write MetronInfo.xml metadata from comics with ComicInfo.xml data, and migrate data for comics that don't exist at the Metron Comic Database:

metron-tagger -om --migrate /path/to/comics

To remove duplicate pages from comics (which should be only ran on a directory of weekly release since we scan all the pages within a comic), would be done by running the following:

metron-tagger --duplicates /path/to/weekly/comics

Bugs/Requests

Please use the GitHub issue tracker to submit bugs or request features.

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv3 License.

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