Sometimes you want to rename your movies on disk according to a fixed naming scheme. The following script searches the open movie database for your flick and then renames it as <movie title>(<year>).iso and also saves the cover picture for it.

The Script

#!/bin/sh
# Queries open movie database and renames iso files according ").iso" format.
# It also saves an xml file with movie information and downloads the cover picture.
# Copyright 2011 by Reiner Rottmann. Released under the BSD License.
apikey=dbaaa04ad5583f2****************
url=http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/Movie.search/en/xml/
for movie in *.iso
do
   query=`echo $movie| sed 's#^[0-9]*-##g'|tr "-" "+"|sed 's#.iso##g'`
   [ -e "$movie".xml ] || curl -s $url$apikey/"$query" > "$movie".xml
   title=`cat "$movie.xml"|grep -o ".*"|head -n1|grep -o ">.*<"|tr -d "<>"|tr "'" "-"`
   year=`cat "$movie.xml"|grep "released>"|head -n1|cut -d"-" -f1|sed "s#.*>##g"`
   imageurl=`cat "$movie.xml"|grep poster|head -n1|grep -o "http://.*jpg"`
   if [ -z "$title" ]
   then
       continue
   fi
   if [ -z "$year" ]
   then
       continue
    fi
   target="$title ($year)"
   [ -e "$target.iso" ] || echo mv \"$movie\" \"$target.iso\" 
   [ -e "$target.xml" ] || echo mv \"$movie.xml\" \"$target.xml\" 
   [ -e "$target.jpg" ] || echo wget -O \"$target.jpg\" $imageurl
done