This scanner extends plex filename parser to support Japanese standard media naming convention. This plugin has been developed mainly to work with my other agents:
This plugin has poor support for non Japanese media naming convention, while it does support the standard naming you are better fit to use plex agents for that.
Download or clone this repository. Copy the jp_scanner.py file to your plex Media Server Scanners/Series directory. What where is that? Go to this directory and then go one level up from there You most likely wont find a Scanners/Series directory, so create one and copy the file there.
Once that is done, restart your plex media server and you should be able to see the scanner in the list of scanners.
The Scanners directory should be next to the following directories: Logs, Plugins, Plug-in Support. If it isn't in that place, then the scanner won't show up.
Simply create new library and select the scanner from the list of scanners. Select the Agent to be one of the agents mentioned above.
The library should be structured as follows:
├── main_root_directory (The place where you store all of your jp media)
│ ├── the show title
│ │ ├── Season (Year)
│ │ │ ├── {date} Show Title -? ep01 - optional episode title.ext
│ │ │ ├── {date} title.ext
│ │ │ ├── title {date}.ext
│ │ │ ├── Series title - {date} - optional episode title.ext
The {date} in filename references one of the following formats:
We will use the following date as an example: 2021-10-21
21102121-10-2121_10_2121.10.21202110212021-10-212021_10_212021.10.21
All the formats you see above match the same date in the scanner.
If the date length is less than 8 and to avoid identifying multiple episodes that aired on same date, the episode Index is extended with 4 more digits the four digits comes from the file last modified date mmss.
So the final episode index becomes 1 + episode air date + last modified date.
Continuing with the example above, if the episode air date is 2021-10-21 and the file last modified date is 2021-10-21 12:34:56 then the episode index becomes 1-1021-3456.
Simply put, I like it this way, and there is no plans to change it.
You can do so by, creating a file named jp_scanner.json next to where you created Scanners directory. The file should be in the following format:
[
"(?P<title>.+?)\s?[Ee][Pp](?P<episode>[0-9]{1,4})$",
...
]This most likely due to matching date object and file modified time either from the file itself or the .info.json file for the yt-dlp agent. To Fix this issue, i included
utils.py file which is a command line that require modern python version. To fix the issue you need to download the utils.py file and run the following command:
$ python3 utils.py --recursive --update-id /home/media/....You can run the command on the entire collection or the specific show directory. The command will do what is needed to alter the mod time of the file or the epoch field inside info.json.
However, this will only work if you follow the standard naming we mentioned above. If you have a different naming convention, then you are better off using plex agents.
You can use the tester.py file to test the file names. The file is a command line tool that require modern python version. To test the file names, clone the repository and run the following command:
$ python3 tester.py -i 'path to the file or directory'