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Originally Posted by Kryz-El
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.
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If you haven't found that functionality in other software,I would suggest you haven't looked very hard. I would suggest using calibre for those files. The Adding books configuration allows you to parse the file name including using regex rather than reading metadata from the file contents. A lot easier than re-inventing the wheel.
Though I have to wonder where those files are coming from. I'm more used to files that have nonsensical looking names such as 0c5a9893-1a6c-4c7f-bedb-6524059edee44.epub but that have proper metadata in content.opf. Even most fanfic downloaders are good at generating metadata.
I would hate to think that you are asking for help with pirated ebooks which are about the only source I've seen for ebooks that have that much information in the filename but lousy metadata.