metron-tagger 4.8.0
A program to write metadata from metron.cloud to a comic archive
Requires Python: >=3.10
Keywords: cb7, cbr, cbt, cbz, comic, comicinfo, metadata, metroninfo, pdf, tagger, tagging

# Metron-Tagger

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## Quick Description

A command-line tool to tag comic archives with metadata from
[metron.cloud](https://metron.cloud).

## Installation

### PyPi

Or install it yourself:

```bash
$ pipx install metron-tagger
```

There are optional dependencies which can be installed by specifying one or more
of them in braces e.g. metron-tagger[7zip]

The optional dependencies are:

- 7zip: Provides support for reading/writing to CB7 files.
- pdf: Provides support for reading/writing to PDF files.

## FAQ

**What comics formats are supported?**

- Metron-Tagger supports CBZ, CBR, CBT, CB7 (optional), and PDF (optional)
  comics.

**How to enable RAR support?**

- It depends on the unrar command-line utility, and expects it to be in your
  $PATH.
  > _NOTE_: unrar only supports reading archives, so you will need to convert
  > the archive to a cbz to write to it. To do so you can use
  > `-z, --export-to-cbz` and if you want you can remove the orginal .cbr
  > archive with `--delete-original` after successful conversion.

## Help

```
usage: metron-tagger [-h] [-r] [-o] [-m] [-c] [--id ID] [-d] [--ignore-existing] [--accept-only] [--missing] [-s] [-z] [--validate] [--remove-non-valid] [--delete-original] [--duplicates] [--migrate] [--version]
                   path [path ...]

Read in a file or set of files, and return the result.

positional arguments:
  path                 Path of a file or a folder of files.

options:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  -r, --rename         Rename comic archive from the files metadata. (default: False)
  -o, --online         Search online and attempt to identify comic archive. (default: False)
  -m, --metroninfo     Write, delete, or validate MetronInfo.xml. (default: False)
  -c, --comicinfo      Write, delete, or validate ComicInfo.xml. (default: False)
  --id ID              Identify file for tagging with the Metron Issue Id, or restrict directory matches to issues from a specific Metron Series Id. (default: None)
  -d, --delete         Delete the metadata tags from the file. (default: False)
  --ignore-existing    Ignore files that have existing metadata tag. (default: False)
  --accept-only        Automatically accept the match when exactly one valid match is found. (default: False)
  --skip-multiple      Skip files that have multiple matches instead of prompting for selection. (default: False)
  --missing            List files without metadata. (default: False)
  -s, --sort           Sort files that contain metadata tags. (default: False)
  -z, --export-to-cbz  Export a CBR (rar) archive to a CBZ (zip) archive. (default: False)
  --validate           Verify that comic archive has a valid metadata xml. (default: False)
  --remove-non-valid   Remove metadata xml from comic if not valid. Used with --validate option (default: False)
  --delete-original    Delete the original archive after successful export to another format. (default: False)
  --duplicates         Identify and give the option to delete duplicate pages in a directory of comics. (Experimental) (default: False)
  --migrate            Migrate information from a ComicInfo.xml into a *new* MetronInfo.xml (default: False)
  --version            Show the version number and exit
```

## Examples

To tag all comics in a directory with MetronInfo.xml that don't already have
one:

```
metron-tagger -om --ignore-existing /path/to/comics
```

To remove any ComicInfo.xml from a directory of comics:

```
metron-tagger -dc /path/to/comics
```

To validate any metadata, ComicInfo.xml and MetronInfo.xml, would be done by
running the following:

```
metron-tagger -cm --validate /path/to/comics
```

To write MetronInfo.xml metadata from comics with ComicInfo.xml data, and
migrate data for comics that don't exist at the Metron Comic Database:

```
metron-tagger -om --migrate /path/to/comics
```

To remove duplicate pages from comics (which should be only ran on a directory
of weekly release since we scan all the pages within a comic), would be done by
running the following:

```
metron-tagger --duplicates /path/to/weekly/comics
```

## Bugs/Requests

Please use the
[GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/Metron-Project/metron-tagger/issues)
to submit bugs or request features.

## License

This project is licensed under the [GPLv3 License](LICENSE).