tvnamer mit Homebrew, Nix, apt installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• tvnamer

Projektgeschichte

The official GitHub repository was created in July 2009, placing tvnamer in the older generation of home-media-library command-line tools. Its README describes the core transformation from scene-style names such as `some.show.s01e03...avi` to cleaner names such as `Some Show - [01x03] - The Episode Name.avi`.

The README documents a v2-era shift toward extensive JSON configuration, saying custom configuration was one of the largest improvements in tvnamer v2. It later records Python 3.5+ support and notes that tvnamer 3 was the last version to support Python 2.7.

Adoptionsgeschichte

tvnamer's adoption came from media-library automation rather than from a single platform ecosystem. The official README says pip is the official install method and also lists community packaging for Homebrew, Debian, FreeBSD/DragonFlyBSD/MacPorts, and Nix; the supplied package metadata records Homebrew, Nix, and Ubuntu entries.

Its package-manager relevance comes from the old but durable need to normalize downloaded or ripped TV episode files before media centers, NAS folders, and archive scripts consume them.

Wie es verwendet wird

The basic workflow is `tvnamer file_or_directory`: tvnamer parses episode-like filenames, searches TVDB data, prompts the user to confirm a match, and renames files. It can run on individual files, multiple paths, directories, or recursively with `--recursive`.

For automation, the README highlights `--selectfirst`, `--always`, and `--batch`, plus `--series-id` for disambiguation. Users can save or place a JSON config at `~/.config/tvnamer/tvnamer.json` to customize language, filename formats, replacements, and safety behavior.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

tvnamer is a classic package-nerd utility: small, scriptable, long-lived, and very specific. It sits at the intersection of Python packaging, Homebrew/Debian/Nix distribution, and personal media curation workflows.

Zeitleiste

• 2009: Official GitHub repository created.
• 2010s: v2 series introduced JSON configuration according to the README.
• 2020: README notes tvnamer 3 as the final Python 2.7-compatible release.
• 2021: GitHub metadata shows the last push in May 2021 while package metadata still records active package-manager entries.

Related projects

• TheTVDB
• tvdb_api
• Python packaging
• media-center file organization

Quellen

• GitHub API for dbr/tvnamer: repository created 2009-07-16, homepage, description, license, and push metadata.
• current_curation.repo: existing curated repository URL corroborates official GitHub repo.
• https://github.com/dbr/tvnamer README: purpose, examples, official pip install, community package list, features, batch mode, recursive mode, config path, and Python version notes.
• source_facts.package-manager: Homebrew, Nix, and Ubuntu package-manager presence.