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Hi
I have a lot of epubs with various random formatted filenames. I would like to rename the files based on the embedded metadata in the epub (along the lines of what I can do with PDFs where I can reference the content of the pdf). I have found where I can set a condition based on kind=epub, but I can't see how I would reference the title and author in the epub's metadata.

Is this something that Hazel can do?

Thank you
Cheers, Liam

Select the file in Finder and do "Get Info". Check to make sure the metadata is available (most of it should be under "More info"). See how they are listed there and in Hazel, select "Other" and find those same attributes in the list that appears.

Mr_Noodle wrote:Select the file in Finder and do "Get Info". Check to make sure the metadata is available (most of it should be under "More info"). See how they are listed there and in Hazel, select "Other" and find those same attributes in the list that appears.

Thanks, I was on the right track just the epubs I was testing with appear to not have the metadata

Note that it may be the case that you don't have a Spotlight importer for epubs to provide that metadata. I don't think macOS ships with one but it's possible there's an epub app out there that has one to accompany it.