tagmkv

Tag MKV movies with metadata from The Movie Database via a CLI.

Requires: node, npm, mkvtoolnix

Installation

Mac OSX

• Install Homebrew.
• brew install node
• brew install mkvtoolnix
• npm install tagmkv -g
• Add your API key from The Movie Database to api-key.txt in the tagmkv folder.

Windows and Linux

I haven't had a chance to test these platforms, but it should work if you have the required tool dependencies installed.

Usage

tagmkv mkv-file

Options:

  -h, --help     output usage information
  -V, --version  output the version number
  -r, --rename   rename target file with canonical title and release year

Tags

Generated tags are a subset of the Matroska tagging spec that apply specifically to movies.

The following tags will be auto-populated from The Movie Database if they are available.

• TITLE
• DIRECTOR
• DATE_RELEASED
• SUMMARY
• DESCRIPTION