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=APIs for PicardQt Plugins=

API documentation for [[Picard Qt|PicardQt]] plugins.

==Metadata Processors==

[[MusicBrainz]] metadata can be post-processed at two levels, album and track.

Album metadata example:

<pre>
1 PLUGIN_NAME = 'Disc Numbers'
2 PLUGIN_AUTHOR = 'Lukas Lalinsky'
3 PLUGIN_DESCRIPTION = 'Moves disc numbers from album titles to tags.'
4
5 from picard.metadata import register_album_metadata_processor
6 import re
7
8 def remove_discnumbers(metadata, release):
9 matches = re.search(r"\(disc (\d+)\)", metadata["album"])
10 if matches:
11 metadata["discnumber"] = matches.group(1)
12 metadata["album"] = re.sub(r"\(disc \d+\)", "", metadata["album"])
13
14 register_album_metadata_processor(remove_discnumbers)
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Track metadata example:

<pre>
1 PLUGIN_NAME = 'Feat. Artists'
2 PLUGIN_AUTHOR = 'Lukas Lalinsky'
3 PLUGIN_DESCRIPTION = 'Removes feat. artists from track titles.'
4
5 from picard.metadata import register_track_metadata_processor
6 import re
7
8 def remove_featartists(metadata, release, track):
9 metadata["title"] = re.sub(r"\(feat. [^)]*\)", "", metadata["title"])
10
11 register_track_metadata_processor(remove_featartists)
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==Tagger Script Functions==

To define new [[Picard Qt/Scripting|tagger script]] function use <code><nowiki>register_script_function(function, name=None)</nowiki></code> from module <code><nowiki>picard.script</nowiki></code>.

Example:

<pre>
1 PLUGIN_NAME = 'Initials'
2 PLUGIN_AUTHOR = 'Lukas Lalinsky'
3 PLUGIN_DESCRIPTION = 'Provides tagger script function $initials(text).'
4
5 from picard.script import register_script_function
6
7 def initials(parser, text):
8 return "".join(a[:1] for a in text.split(" ") if a[:1].isalpha())
9
10 register_script_function(initials)
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[[Category:To Be Reviewed]] [[Category:Development]] [[Category:Picard]]

Latest revision as of 17:40, 8 July 2019