diff --git a/src/utils/IllegalFilenameCharactersList.ts b/src/utils/IllegalFilenameCharactersList.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d0ceba1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/IllegalFilenameCharactersList.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// Illegal characters in the form `[illegal_character, replacement][]`
+export const ILLEGAL_FILENAME_CHARACTERS = [
+	['\/', '-'],
+	['\\', '-'],
+	['<', ''],
+	['>', ''],
+	[':', ' - '],
+	['"', "'"],
+	['|', ' - '],
+	['?', ''],
+	['*', ''],
+	['[', '('],
+	[']', ')'],
+	['^', ''],
+	['#', ''],
+];
diff --git a/src/utils/MediaTypeManager.ts b/src/utils/MediaTypeManager.ts
index c661368..29c78a2 100644
--- a/src/utils/MediaTypeManager.ts
+++ b/src/utils/MediaTypeManager.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { WikiModel } from '../models/WikiModel';
 import type { MediaDbPluginSettings } from '../settings/Settings';
 import { MediaType } from './MediaType';
 import { replaceTags } from './Utils';
+import { ILLEGAL_FILENAME_CHARACTERS } from './IllegalFilenameCharactersList';
 
 export const MEDIA_TYPES: MediaType[] = [
 	MediaType.Movie,
@@ -71,7 +72,14 @@ export class MediaTypeManager {
 
 	getFileName(mediaTypeModel: MediaTypeModel): string {
 		// Ignore undefined tags since some search APIs do not return all properties in the model and produce clean file names even if errors occur
-		return replaceTags(this.mediaFileNameTemplateMap.get(mediaTypeModel.getMediaType())!, mediaTypeModel, true);
+		let fileName = replaceTags(this.mediaFileNameTemplateMap.get(mediaTypeModel.getMediaType())!, mediaTypeModel, true);
+		return this.cleanFileName(fileName);
+	}
+
+	cleanFileName(fileName: string): string {
+		const cleanedFileName = ILLEGAL_FILENAME_CHARACTERS.reduce((str, char) => str.replaceAll(char[0], char[1]), fileName);
+		// Remove all duplicate whitespace in the file name
+		return cleanedFileName.replaceAll(/ +/g, ' ');
 	}
 
 	async getTemplate(mediaTypeModel: MediaTypeModel, app: App): Promise<string> {