[Jobu279]

Hi Rednoah - thanks for your help so far. I will maybe look at groovy but for now I have build a batch file which checks a folder for new files and then runs.

What I run is:

filebot -get-missing-subtitles --lang de E:\ServerFolders\Downloads

filebot -get-missing-subtitles --lang en E:\ServerFolders\Downloads

filebot -rename E:\ServerFolders\Downloads --format "E:/ServerFolders/Series/{n}/{n.space('.')}.{s00e00}.{t.space('.')}.{vf}" -non-strict

Of couse I have some unmatched episodes still enjoying life in the Downloads folder - however when using the non-strict on the rename cli it moves a bunch of episodes - but also some it shouldn't (only based on matching S01E13 info). If I remove the non-strict it will not match/move the files at all Can I do something about this? Otherwise I will have to search for missing episodes with wrong names... And that is going to suck donkey ass

By default FileBot will only fetch "perfectly matched" subtitles from OpenSubtitles and Sublight via hashlookup. OpenSubtitles can be unstable at times.

TIP: Set -non-strict flag to enable name matching when looking up subtitles (e.g. matching SxE pattern, very similar in name, etc).


Heard about that site, but do they have a public API? Now if they also support hash-lookup I will definitely add support.


Yes, absolutely! But as soon as you need an if-then or for-loop to get your stuff done. Then you will LOVE to learn Groovy. Personally, I just can't be bothered with cmd scripts, and I'd hate to help people out with that.

Groovy is just nice to work with and Windows/Linux/Mac people get a common platform to collaborate and share scripts for automation. Doesn't even have to be about renaming/subtitles, can be anything that makes sense. I myself use filebot -script BuildData.groovy to update the shared movie/series index.


That will work in strict mode. Run once forcing --db tvdb and then --db themoviedb. But you need S00E00, 1x01, etc in episode names and {name} {year} for movies. Don't set -non-strict in a movies/episodes mixed setting!

There a script that'll try to make it work without SxE for episodes and without (year) for movies:
http://filebot.sourceforge.net/forums/vi...4&t=5#p512