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Allow regex to identify data for the scraper

Open wellloaded opened this issue 6 months ago • 1 comments

We all use a different naming convention for files and directory.

There is a semi-official standard but ultimately we all use something more or less different from it.

With this request I would like to have the possibility to use regex to identify e.g. Title, original name and year to mention an example.

Something that allows to pick up a pattern and consistently use it in a well-defined field. e.g.

My movie (my original title) [year]

could so be parsed to populate the scraper with relevant info. Tthis very format above queries "My movie my original title year" and of course it doesn't find anything. Allowing regex we could place My movie -> title [year] -> Year etc

thanks

wellloaded avatar Aug 19 '25 11:08 wellloaded

Hi,

thanks for opening this feature request!

Please note that I didn't get to work on MediaElch for the past >3 months, hence this very late reply. Thanks for staying patient! :)

I don't get where your user-defined RegEx would be used. Could you expand on that topic a bit? Should it be used for extracting data from the respective scraper's page, e.g. IMDB?

Kind regards,

Andre

bugwelle avatar Oct 26 '25 16:10 bugwelle