Release v0.8 (Installation)
GuessIt is a python library that tries to extract as much information as possible from a video file.
It has a powerful filename matcher that allows to guess a lot of metadata from a video using only its filename. 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"
}
At the moment, the filename matcher is able to recognize the following property types:
[ title, # for movies and episodes
series, season, # for episodes only
episodeNumber, episodeDetails, # for episodes only
date, year, # 'date' instance of datetime.date
language, subtitleLanguage, # instances of babelfish.Language
country, # instances of babelfish.Country
fileSize, duration, # when detecting video file metadata
container, format,
videoCodec, audioCodec,
videoProfile, audioProfile,
audioChannels, screenSize,
releaseGroup, website,
cdNumber, cdNumberTotal,
filmNumber, filmSeries,
bonusNumber, edition,
idNumber, # tries to identify a hash or a serial number
other
]
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.
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.
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
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:
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"
GuessIt is under active development, and contributions are more than welcome!
GuessIt is licensed under the LGPLV3 license.