fb2 file renamer

This python script unpacks .zip files that contains .fb2 files inside and then renames .fb2 files according to its <book-title> tags. If there are no .zip files in the specified directory, skips the unpacking part.

This version of script can rename russian book-titles only. I will hopefully work on other functionality later. Firstly, script checks for the .zip files in the specified directory (directory variable) and upacks files to the same directory with deleting the original ones. Then it checks for the .fb2 files in the directory and finds its tag text, renames the file with this text and prints the list of renamed .fb2 files in the console. Script should work fine with Python v3.7 and later.

Status

Download and Installation

To begin using this script, choose one of the following options to get started:

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/rvildanov93/fb2-file-renamer.git

or Download on GitHub

Also you have to install langdetect python module via console command:

pip install langdetect

Usage

First you have to copy directory path of your zipped books folder to paste it in the script later. In the example bellow directory path is C:\Users\RAMIL\Desktop\books.

Each .zip file contains .fb2 file inside. We are going to change the name of .fb2 file written in english according to its <book-title> xml tag which written in russian.

If you open .fb2 file in the text editor you will see <book-title> tag inside structured xml code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<FictionBook xmlns="http://www.gribuser.ru/xml/fictionbook/2.0" xmlns:l="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<description>
  <title-info>
    <genre>adv_animal</genre>
    <genre>sci_biology</genre>
    <genre>sci_popular</genre>
    <genre>science</genre>
    <author>
      <first-name>Конрад</first-name>
      <middle-name>Захариас</middle-name>
      <last-name>Лоренц</last-name>
    </author>
    <book-title>Кольцо царя Соломона</book-title>

Open fb2_file_renamer.py file in your Python interpreter (PyCharm for example) and paste your directory path you copied earlier in the directory variable value. Then change backslashes in pasted string to forward slashes so Python can read your file path.

# insert your directory in the "directory" variable
directory = 'C:/Users/RAMIL/Desktop/books/'

Finally run the script and you will see the list of renamed files in the console. If there are no .fb2 files in the specified directory script prints out message: “There are no .fb2 files in folder”.

renamed file: Архетипы и коллективное бессознательное.fb2
renamed file: Кольцо царя Соломона.fb2
renamed file: Мир как воля и представление.fb2
renamed file: Потерянный рай.fb2

You will see only renamed .fb2 files in specified folder. zip archives will be deleted automatically.

Bugs and Issues

Have a bug or an issue with this script? Open a new issue here on GitHub or write me a message on the ramilvildanov.ru.

About

fb2 file renamer was created by and is maintained by Ramil Vildanov.

fb2-file-renamer

Script that renames .fb2 files according to its book-title tags.