Regex help for tv shows

[PLUCKYHD]

Sean,

Not that good at regex how would I change the title mask for tv shows to do as I am doing

\\showtitle\season\episodenumber.mpg

is that possible?

[stuckless]

Plucky,

I'm sure what you are asking... the TitleMask in BMT is used to set the display title for a media item... and it has nothing to do with regex. Or are you asking how to build a tv filename parser for the format that you are asking?

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Plucky,

I'm sure what you are asking... the TitleMask in BMT is used to set the display title for a media item... and it has nothing to do with regex. Or are you asking how to build a tv filename parser for the format that you are asking?

Yes that is what I am asking sorry if I worded it wrong. I just though I needed the right regex method/parser needed to replace the default

tvtitle-season-epsiode-epsiodename

so it would get metadata on the tv files I have organized/named as per above

if this isn't possible and I need to rename everything sorry for the dumb question

[stuckless]

BMT uses an XBMC scraper for processing the filename patterns. They are included in the scrapers/xbmc/tvfilenames/ directory. You can drop a new file in there and it will be picked up (restart may need to be required)

Heres a sample scraper that uses Show Seaon ## Disc ##/Episode.avi format...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- 
   TV Filename Scraper.  Used to Scrape Show Name, Season and Episode from a given file URI
   $$1 is always the complete file uri
-->
<scraper name="title-s00d00" content="filename" thumb="thumb.png">
	<!-- 	input: 		$1=complete file uri -->
	<!-- 	returns: 	show name -->
	<GetShowName dest="3">
		<RegExp input="$$1" output="\1" dest="3">
			<expression>.*[/\\](.*)Season\s+([0-9]{1,2})\s?Disc\s+([[0-9]]{1,2})</expression>
		</RegExp>
	</GetShowName>

	<!-- 	input: 		$1=complete file uri -->
	<!-- 	returns: 	Season #-->
	<GetSeason dest="3">
		<RegExp input="$$1" output="\2" dest="3">
			<expression>.*[/\\](.*)Season\s+([0-9]{1,2})\s?Disc\s+([[0-9]]{1,2})</expression>
		</RegExp>
	</GetSeason>
	
	<!-- 	input: 		$1=complete file uri -->
	<!-- 	returns: 	Disc #-->
	<GetDisc dest="3">
		<RegExp input="$$1" output="\3" dest="3">
			<expression>.*[/\\](.*)Season\s+([0-9]{1,2})\s?Disc\s+([[0-9]]{1,2})</expression>
		</RegExp>
	</GetDisc>
</scraper>

TV Scraper Files have can contain the following functions
GetShowName
GetSeason
GetDisc
GetEpisode
GetAiredDate
GetAiringId

At a minimum you need to implement GetShowName, GetSeason and GetEpisode.
GetShowName is the Series Name.

Typcially when I'm creating scrapers, I tend to use Java and create a single regex pattern for that contains groups for Show,Season,Episode, and then when I put them into a regex scraper, I then change the output attribute to select the group that I want. ie, in the sample I posted here, the regex expression is exactly the same, but the output attribute selects either group 1,2,3.

A regex for what you want, may look something like...

.*[/\\]([^/\\]+)[/\\]([0-9]+)[/\\]([0-9]+)\.avi

In this case, group 1 is the showname, group 2 is the season number and group 3 is the episode number. You'll want to test this regex, since I just typed here without testing.

If you build the scraper, I can include it in future bmt builds.

[PLUCKYHD]

Thanks sean I will look at doing this and appreciate the examples regex is not a strong point for me

Also haven't used bmt in a long time and just wanted to say downloaded painfully the other day from the plugin manager and v4.0 is working very well nice job