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Kryz-El · 08-23-2020, 11:53 AM

I have a lot of epubs with wonderful filenames but absolutely no metadata.

If I could parse those filenames and write the metadata that would be great for me.

I'm thinking of a token system. An example would be,

Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 109 - The Golden Masks

I would tokenize that as,

%creator_file_as_01% - %series% %series% %series_index% - %title%

Maybe without the underscores. I don't know. That's why I'm here begging because I'm no programmer. Just create tokens for the common elements. Let the user format the string. And it would not be a batch operation, only the current open file.

Please! I can't find this functionality in any other software.

My current process is just that, a process that takes forever.

EpubMetadataEditor does the opposite of this, allowing you to rename the file based on metadata tokens.

Thanks for reading.

08-23-2020, 11:53 AM	#16
Kryz-El Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2020 Device: none	Plugin to parse filename to write metadata I have a lot of epubs with wonderful filenames but absolutely no metadata. If I could parse those filenames and write the metadata that would be great for me. I'm thinking of a token system. An example would be, Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 109 - The Golden Masks I would tokenize that as, %creator_file_as_01% - %series% %series% %series_index% - %title% Maybe without the underscores. I don't know. That's why I'm here begging because I'm no programmer. Just create tokens for the common elements. Let the user format the string. And it would not be a batch operation, only the current open file. Please! I can't find this functionality in any other software. My current process is just that, a process that takes forever. EpubMetadataEditor does the opposite of this, allowing you to rename the file based on metadata tokens. Thanks for reading.