Name: changing-filebot-to-olaris-rename

Last reviewed by: Clipper, April 2026

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Filebot and olaris-rename

Bytesized supports two tools for automatic media renaming and symlinking after a torrent completes.

olaris-rename is the default on all new Bytesized installations since 2019. It was created by Bytesized as a free, lightweight alternative to Filebot. See this news post for the full announcement.

Filebot is a more powerful and accurate renaming tool, but its latest versions are paid software. It remains available for members who have a Filebot licence or were using it before it became paid.

For instructions on installing Filebot on your Appbox, see the Filebot page.

For more information on olaris-rename, see the olaris-rename page.

If you have an existing Filebot installation and want to switch to olaris-rename, follow the steps below.

If editing these files on Windows, use a Linux-compatible editor such as Notepad++ or VS Code. Standard Windows Notepad will corrupt the line endings and break the scripts.

Deluge

Open ~/.config/deluge/filebot.py with a text editor. Find the call_filebot() function and replace the cmd = (...) block with the olaris-rename equivalent:

# call filebot
def call_filebot():
    logging.info("Starting filebot")

    cmd = ("olaris-rename --log-to-file=true --verbose=true --skip-extracting=false --filepath=\"%s/%s\" " % (sys.argv[3], sys.argv[2]))

⚠️ This is a Python script — indentation is significant. Make sure the new line has exactly the same number of leading spaces as the cmd = (...) line you replaced.

rTorrent

Open ~/.config/rtorrent/filebot with a text editor. Find the line starting with filebot -script fn:amc and replace the entire line with:

# call olaris-rename
olaris-rename --log-to-file=true --verbose=true --filepath="$TORRENT_PATH" --skip-extracting=false

If you do not want archives to be extracted automatically, change --skip-extracting=false to --skip-extracting=true.