Renaming video files with a Java program

Question

I have a folder containing many videos that i'd like to rename. I can't think of any convenient way of doing so. The naming convention is the following "SeasonX, EpisodeY: Episode name". This is going to be "SXEY:Name" for short.

An example: S01E01:JavaCode That would be Season One, Episode One of Episode called JavaCode.

I wrote something that is able to change the file names, but I need different and unique file names for every episode because it's a TV show.

Here's the code:

import java.io.File;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class BatchFileRenamer {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        File folder = new File("C:\\Users\\Tony\\Videos\\New folder");
        TreeMap map = new TreeMap();
        String name = "name";

        File[] files = folder.listFiles();

        Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\..*");

        for (int i = 0; i != files.length; i++) {
            Matcher m = p.matcher(files[i].getName());
            System.out.println(files[i].getName());
            m.find();
            files[i].renameTo(new File(folder.getAbsolutePath() + "\\" + name + " S01E" +
                    (i < 10 ? "1" : "") + i + m.group()));
        }
    }
}

I was thinking of creating an array containing the episode names but that's just as much work as manually renaming them in Windows. I guess if I had a txt file to download for all the TV shows with the names of the episodes in it it'd be useful.

Anyway, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I think the best way to do this would be to use the Open Movie Database API. With this, you can get a REST response including a list of episodes for each season of a show. (Example request).

With this, you could use Gson or another parser to serialize the list of episodes:

Here is a Gist of some sample code. (There is probably a better getter method, but you get the point)

What the code does is it gets the information from the sample request above via the API, then it serializes it into a basic POJO from the Episodes.java class using Gson:

Gson gson = new Gson();
Episodes episodes = gson.fromJson(download, Episodes.class);
System.out.println(episodes);

You can then use this information to create the individual file names for the video files.