How to add metadata file to .cbz result

[Enrique-Venegas-A]

Hello,

I'm trying to add this custom formatted metadata file to my .cbz file, this are my current settings to download:

{
  "directory": [
    "{category}",
    "{artist[:3]}",
    "{{{gallery_id}}} - [{language}] - {count} pages - {title[:100]:?_//}"
  ],
  "filename": "{gallery_id} - {num}.{extension}",
  "postprocessors": [
    {
      "name": "metadata",
      "mode": "custom",
      "filename": "info.json",
      "extension-format": "json",
      "content-format": "{{ \n \"Title\": \"{title}\", \n \"Tags\": {tags!j}, ...etc \n}}"
    },
    {
      "name": "zip",
      "compression": "store",
      "extension": "cbz",
      "keep-files": false
    }
  ]
}

For each download this results in a folder, inside the folder it downloads the gallery and creates alongside an info.json file, then creates a .cbz file with all the gallery files and then leaves out the info.json file.

Thanks for your help!

[mikf]

Not really possible at the moment, at least not with the zip post processor. It really should be, and I guess now is as good a time as any to implement something in this regard, but you currently have to use the exec post processor with some other tools like 7zip or plain zip to add any non-downloaded file to an archive.

[Enrique-Venegas-A]

It works with this syntax but it adds the whole folder to the .cbz, I'll try to fix the zip command and see what happens

"command": ["zip", "-ur", "{_directory[:-1]}.cbz", "{_directory}info.json"],

[mikf]

it adds the whole folder to the .cbz,

Maybe because you're using -r, which means recurse into directories?

[mikf]

j/--junk-paths seems to be the zip option you want, although it might not work with -r according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9710141/create-zip-file-and-ignore-directory-structure

-m/--move might also be useful.

[mikf]

I've been testing with the following and it seems to do what you want.
You just need to update the metadata post processor settings.

    "postprocessors": [
        {
            "name": "metadata",
            "event": "init",
            "filename": "info.json"
        },
        {
            "name": "exec",
            "event": "init",
            "command": ["zip", "-0jmu", "{_directory[:-1]}.cbz", "{_directory}info.json"]
        },
        {
            "name": "zip",
            "extension": "cbz",
            "compression": "store"
        }
    ]

[Enrique-Venegas-A]

Yes!, that's exactly what I was trying to do, thanks for your help!

[DeadNews]

This works for me:

"postprocessors": [
  {
    "name": "metadata",
    "event": "init",
    "filename": "info.json",
  },
  {
    "name": "zip",
    "compression": "zip",
    "extension": "cbz",
    "files": ["info.json"],
  }
]

[mikf]

(The files option didn't exist back when this discussion was opened b361253)