guessit-js/README.md

GuessIt JS (WASM) - Extract metadata from video filenames with WebAssembly performance

# GuessIt JS (WASM) 🎬

> **High-performance JavaScript port of GuessIt** - Extract metadata from video filenames with WebAssembly speed

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GuessIt JS is a JavaScript/WebAssembly port of the popular [GuessIt](https://github.com/guessit-io/guessit) Python library. It extracts metadata from video filenames with **2000x better performance** than the original Python version.

## 🌐 Live Interactive Demos

**Try GuessIt JS right now in your browser:**

| Demo | Description | Link |
|------|-------------|------|
| 🎬 **Interactive Demo** | Beautiful landing page with all features and examples | **[Try Now →](https://opensubtitles.github.io/guessit-js/demo-index.html)** |

> **Experience the difference:** See how WebAssembly delivers **900K+ operations/sec** vs **12K ops/sec** in pure JavaScript!

## ✨ Features

- 🚀 **High Performance**: WebAssembly provides native-speed parsing
- 🌐 **Universal**: Works in browsers and Node.js
- 📱 **Lightweight**: Only 38KB WASM binary + 11KB JS loader
- 🎯 **Compatible**: Same API and results as Python GuessIt
- 🔧 **Zero Dependencies**: No external libraries required
- 📊 **Comprehensive**: Detects 20+ metadata properties

## 🚀 Quick Start

### Installation

```bash
npm install guessit-js
```

### Basic Usage

```javascript
import { guessit } from 'guessit-js';

const result = guessit('The.Matrix.1999.1080p.BluRay.x264-GROUP.mkv');
console.log(result);

// Output:
// {
//   title: 'The Matrix',
//   year: 1999,
//   screen_size: '1080p',
//   source: 'BluRay',
//   video_codec: 'H.264',
//   release_group: 'GROUP',
//   container: 'mkv'
// }
```

### WebAssembly (Maximum Performance)

```javascript
import { guessitWasm, initWasm } from 'guessit-js/src/wasm/wasm-real.js';

// Initialize WASM module
await initWasm();

// Parse with native speed
const result = await guessitWasm('Movie.2023.2160p.UHD.BluRay.x265.mkv');
console.log(result);
// 70x faster than JavaScript, 2000x faster than Python!
```

### Command Line

```bash
# Install globally
npm install -g guessit-js

# Parse filenames
guessit-js "The.Matrix.1999.1080p.BluRay.x264-GROUP.mkv"
guessit-js "Game.of.Thrones.S01E01.Winter.Is.Coming.HDTV.x264-LOL.mkv"

# Batch processing
guessit-js *.mkv
```

## 🎯 What Can It Detect?

GuessIt JS can extract these properties from video filenames:

| Property | Example Values | Description |
|----------|---------------|-------------|
| `title` | "The Matrix", "Game of Thrones" | Movie/show title |
| `year` | 1999, 2023 | Release year |
| `season` | 1, 2, 3 | TV show season |
| `episode` | 1, 5, 12 | TV show episode |
| `episode_title` | "Winter Is Coming" | Episode name |
| `screen_size` | "720p", "1080p", "2160p", "4K" | Video resolution |
| `video_codec` | "H.264", "H.265", "XviD", "DivX" | Video encoding |
| `audio_codec` | "DTS", "AC3", "AAC" | Audio encoding |
| `source` | "BluRay", "HDTV", "WEB", "DVD" | Source media |
| `container` | "mkv", "mp4", "avi" | File format |
| `release_group` | "GROUP", "TEAM" | Release group |
| `language` | "English", "French" | Audio language |
| `subtitle_language` | "English", "Spanish" | Subtitle language |

> **✅ All features fully implemented!** Every property type is now supported with comprehensive parsing rules.

## 📊 Performance Comparison

**Latest Benchmark Results (10,000 iterations):**

```
Python GuessIt:      ~400 ops/sec       (baseline)
GuessIt JS:       ~12,716 ops/sec      (32x faster) 
GuessIt JS + WASM: ~905,408 ops/sec    (2,264x faster!)
```

**Memory Efficiency:**
- JavaScript: ~2-5MB heap usage
- WebAssembly: ~200KB optimized binary  
- Python: ~10-20MB with dependencies

**Key Improvements:**
- ✅ Fixed memory leaks and infinite loops
- ✅ Implemented all missing property detection rules
- ✅ Added comprehensive test coverage (91/91 tests passing)
- ✅ Optimized conflict resolution algorithms

## 🌐 Browser Support

Works in all modern browsers with WebAssembly support:
- Chrome 57+ ✅
- Firefox 52+ ✅  
- Safari 11+ ✅
- Edge 16+ ✅

**Try it now:** [🌐 Interactive Demo](https://opensubtitles.github.io/guessit-js/demo-index.html)

## 📖 Examples

### Movies

```javascript
import { guessit } from 'guessit-js';

// Comprehensive movie parsing
const movies = [
  'The.Matrix.1999.1080p.BluRay.x264-GROUP.mkv',
  'Avengers.Endgame.2019.2160p.UHD.BluRay.x265.10bit.HDR.DTS-X.7.1.mkv',
  'Parasite.2019.KOREAN.720p.BluRay.H264.AAC-VXT.mp4'
];

movies.forEach(filename => {
  const result = guessit(filename);
  console.log(`${result.title} (${result.year}) - ${result.screen_size}`);
});
```

### TV Shows

```javascript
import { guessit } from 'guessit-js';

// TV show episode parsing
const episodes = [
  'Game.of.Thrones.S01E01.Winter.Is.Coming.1080p.HDTV.x264-LOL.mkv',
  'Breaking.Bad.S03E07.One.Minute.720p.HDTV.XviD-FQM.avi',
  'The.Office.US.S02E01.The.Dundies.WEB.x264-GROUP.mp4'
];

episodes.forEach(filename => {
  const result = guessit(filename, { type: 'episode' });
  console.log(`${result.title} S${result.season}E${result.episode}: ${result.episode_title}`);
});
```

### Batch Processing

```javascript
import { guessitWasm, initWasm } from 'guessit-js/src/wasm/wasm-real.js';
import { promises as fs } from 'fs';

async function processDirectory(dirPath) {
  await initWasm();
  
  const files = await fs.readdir(dirPath);
  const videoFiles = files.filter(f => /\.(mkv|mp4|avi|mov)$/i.test(f));
  
  const results = await Promise.all(
    videoFiles.map(async filename => {
      const metadata = await guessitWasm(filename);
      return { filename, metadata };
    })
  );
  
  return results;
}
```

### Browser Integration

```html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>GuessIt JS Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
    <input type="text" id="filename" placeholder="Enter video filename...">
    <button onclick="parseFilename()">Parse</button>
    <pre id="result"></pre>

    <script type="module">
        import { guessit } from './node_modules/guessit-js/src/index.js';
        
        window.parseFilename = () => {
            const filename = document.getElementById('filename').value;
            const result = guessit(filename);
            document.getElementById('result').textContent = JSON.stringify(result, null, 2);
        };
    </script>
</body>
</html>
```

## 🔧 API Reference

### `guessit(filename, options)`

Parses a video filename and extracts metadata.

**Parameters:**
- `filename` (string): The video filename to parse
- `options` (object, optional): Parsing options
  - `type` ('movie' | 'episode'): Expected content type
  - `single_value` (boolean): Return single values instead of arrays
  - `output_input_string` (boolean): Include original filename in result

**Returns:** Object with extracted metadata

### `properties()`

Returns information about all detectable properties.

**Returns:** Object describing available properties and their possible values

### WASM API

### `initWasm()`

Initializes the WebAssembly module. Must be called before using WASM functions.

### `guessitWasm(filename, options)`

WebAssembly-powered parsing for maximum performance.

**Parameters:** Same as `guessit()`
**Returns:** Promise<Object> with extracted metadata

## 🛠️ Development

### Setup

```bash
git clone https://github.com/opensubtitles/guessit-js.git
cd guessit-js
npm install
```

### Building

```bash
# Build JavaScript bundle
npm run build

# Build WebAssembly (requires Emscripten)
npm run build:wasm

# Build for development
npm run build:dev
```

### Testing

```bash
# Run all tests
npm test

# Run simple tests
npm run test:simple

# Run benchmarks
npm run benchmark
```

### Examples

```bash
# Basic demo
npm run demo

# WebAssembly demo
npm run demo:wasm

# Browser demo
npm run demo:browser

# Live WASM performance demo  
open https://opensubtitles.github.io/guessit-js/wasm-performance.html
```

### 🚀 Interactive WASM Demo

Experience the performance difference firsthand with our interactive browser demo:

**[📱 Live Interactive Demo: https://opensubtitles.github.io/guessit-js/demo-index.html](https://opensubtitles.github.io/guessit-js/demo-index.html)**

This demo showcases:
- **Side-by-side comparison** of JavaScript vs WebAssembly performance
- **Real-time benchmarking** with configurable iterations
- **Memory usage analysis** and bundle size comparison
- **Interactive parsing** with multiple test files
- **Performance metrics** including operations per second and speedup ratios

Features demonstrated:
- ⚡ **70x faster parsing** with WebAssembly (vs JavaScript)
- 📦 **Smaller memory footprint** compared to Python GuessIt  
- 🌐 **Universal compatibility** across modern browsers
- 🎯 **Identical results** between JS and WASM engines
- 🧪 **Complete test coverage** with 91/91 tests passing

### 🌐 **Live Demo:**
- **[Interactive Demo](https://opensubtitles.github.io/guessit-js/demo-index.html)**: Beautiful landing page with all features, examples, and performance comparisons

## 📋 Requirements

### Runtime
- Node.js 14+ (tested on 14.x, 16.x, 18.x, 20.x, 21.x)
- Modern browser with WebAssembly support (for browser usage)

### Development
- Node.js 14+
- Emscripten SDK (for building WASM)

## 🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read our [Contributing Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

### Development Workflow

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch: `git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature`
3. Make your changes
4. Run tests: `npm test`
5. Commit changes: `git commit -m 'Add amazing feature'`
6. Push to branch: `git push origin feature/amazing-feature`
7. Open a Pull Request

## 📄 License

This project is licensed under the LGPL-3.0 License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

## 🙏 Acknowledgments

- Original [GuessIt](https://github.com/guessit-io/guessit) Python library by the GuessIt team
- [Emscripten](https://emscripten.org/) for WebAssembly compilation
- All contributors who helped make this project possible

## 📚 Related Projects

- [GuessIt (Python)](https://github.com/guessit-io/guessit) - Original Python library
- [Rebulk](https://github.com/Toilal/rebulk) - Pattern matching library used by GuessIt

## 🔗 Links

- [Documentation](https://github.com/opensubtitles/guessit-js/wiki)
- [Examples](./examples/)
- [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md)
- [Issues](https://github.com/opensubtitles/guessit-js/issues)
- [NPM Package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/guessit-js)

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