GuessIt¶
Release v0.11.0 (Installation)
GuessIt is a python library that extracts as much information as possible from a video file.
It has a very powerful filename 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: {
[1.00] "mimetype": "video/x-msvideo",
[0.80] "episodeNumber": 3,
[0.80] "videoCodec": "XviD",
[1.00] "container": "avi",
[1.00] "format": "HDTV",
[0.70] "series": "Treme",
[0.50] "title": "Right Place, Wrong Time",
[0.80] "releaseGroup": "NoTV",
[0.80] "season": 1,
[1.00] "type": "episode"
}
Filename matcher¶
The filename matcher is based on pattern matching and is able to recognize many properties from the filename,
like title
, year
, series
, episodeNumber
, seasonNumber
,
videoCodec
, screenSize
, language
. Guessed values are cleaned up and given in a readable format
which may not match exactly the raw filename.
The full list of available properties can be seen here:
Other features¶
GuessIt also allows you to compute a whole lof of hashes from a file, namely all the ones you can find in the hashlib python module (md5, sha1, ...), but also the Media Player Classic hash that is used (amongst others) by OpenSubtitles and SMPlayer, as well as the ed2k hash.
If you have the ‘guess-language’ python package installed, GuessIt can also analyze a subtitle file’s contents and detect which language it is written in.
If you have the ‘enzyme’ python package installed, GuessIt can also detect the properties from the actual video file metadata.
Usage¶
GuessIt can be used from the command line:
$ guessit
usage: guessit [-h] [-t TYPE] [-n] [-c] [-X DISABLED_TRANSFORMERS] [-v]
[-P SHOW_PROPERTY] [-u] [-a] [-y] [-f INPUT_FILE] [-d] [-p]
[-V] [-s] [--version] [-b] [-i INFO] [-S EXPECTED_SERIES]
[-T EXPECTED_TITLE] [-Y] [-D] [-L ALLOWED_LANGUAGES] [-E]
[-C ALLOWED_COUNTRIES] [-G EXPECTED_GROUP]
[filename [filename ...]]
positional arguments:
filename Filename or release name to guess
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
Naming:
-t TYPE, --type TYPE The suggested file type: movie, episode. If undefined,
type will be guessed.
-n, --name-only Parse files as name only. Disable folder parsing,
extension parsing, and file content analysis.
-c, --split-camel Split camel case part of filename.
-X DISABLED_TRANSFORMERS, --disabled-transformer DISABLED_TRANSFORMERS
Transformer to disable (can be used multiple time)
-S EXPECTED_SERIES, --expected-series EXPECTED_SERIES
Expected series to parse (can be used multiple times)
-T EXPECTED_TITLE, --expected-title EXPECTED_TITLE
Expected title (can be used multiple times)
-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)
-E, --episode-prefer-number
Guess "serie.213.avi" as the episodeNumber 213.
Without this option, it will be guessed as season 2,
episodeNumber 13
-C ALLOWED_COUNTRIES, --allowed-country ALLOWED_COUNTRIES
Allowed country (can be used multiple times)
-G EXPECTED_GROUP, --expected-group EXPECTED_GROUP
Expected release group (can be used multiple times)
Output:
-v, --verbose Display debug output
-P SHOW_PROPERTY, --show-property SHOW_PROPERTY
Display the value of a single property (title, series,
videoCodec, year, type ...)
-u, --unidentified Display the unidentified parts.
-a, --advanced Display advanced information for filename guesses, as
json output
-y, --yaml Display information for filename guesses as yaml
output (like unit-test)
-f INPUT_FILE, --input-file INPUT_FILE
Read filenames from an input file.
-d, --demo Run a few builtin tests instead of analyzing a file
Information:
-p, --properties Display properties that can be guessed.
-V, --values Display property values that can be guessed.
-s, --transformers Display transformers that can be used.
--version Display the guessit version.
guessit.io:
-b, --bug Submit a wrong detection to the guessit.io service
Other features:
-i INFO, --info INFO The desired information type: filename, video,
hash_mpc or a hash from python's hashlib module, such
as hash_md5, hash_sha1, ...; or a list of any of them,
comma-separated
It can also be used as a python module:
>>> from guessit import guess_file_info
>>> guess_file_info('Treme.1x03.Right.Place,.Wrong.Time.HDTV.XviD-NoTV.avi')
{u'mimetype': 'video/x-msvideo', u'episodeNumber': 3, u'videoCodec': u'XviD', u'container': u'avi', u'format': u'HDTV', u'series': u'Treme', u'title': u'Right Place, Wrong Time', u'releaseGroup': u'NoTV', u'season': 1, u'type': u'episode'}
User Guide¶
This part of the documentation, which is mostly prose, shows how to use Guessit both from the command-line and as a python module which you can use in your own projects.
Web Service API¶
The guessit.io server also provides a free webservice that allows you to perform filename detection, even you don’t have python installed (eg: you need to use it from an Android app, or NodeJS, etc.).
You can look at the documentation for the web API here: http://api.guessit.io
Developer Guide¶
If you want to contribute to the project, this part of the documentation is for you.
You may also want to familiarize yourself with the following classes:
Support¶
The project website for GuessIt is hosted at ReadTheDocs. There you will also find the User guide and Developer documentation.
This project is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/wackou/guessit
Please report issues and/or feature requests via the bug tracker.
You can also report issues using the command-line tool:
$ guessit --bug "filename.that.fails.avi"
Contribute¶
GuessIt is under active development, and contributions are more than welcome!
- 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.
- Fork the repository on Github to start making your changes to the master branch (or branch off of it).
- Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
- Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :)
License¶
GuessIt is licensed under the LGPLv3 license.