# Anyway to access the filename?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/anyway-to-access-the-filename/10937
**Category:** Web Sources Discussion
**Created:** [October 12, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/anyway-to-access-the-filename/10937 "2010-10-12T19:43:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@monty68](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/monty68)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/anyway-to-access-the-filename/10937/1 "2010-10-12T19:43:11Z")
I want to be able to access the filename (without the file extension) within
a web source script, any way to do this?
The reason is I want to pre-append the filename to the title for TV shows.
The %\_filename% variable does not seem to work in the web source script engine!
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### Author:  [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/anyway-to-access-the-filename/10937/2 "2010-10-12T20:54:00Z")
Funny, I just tried the same. I also found no way to get it work. What I tried:
outputto "filename"
outputto "\_filename"
outputto "FILENAME"
outputto "\_FILENAME"
all do not work.
But you can help yourself with an action group:
Include something like:
outputto "dummy filename"
in your script. After running your script, run an action group with to actions:
1st:
Format Tag Field:
Field: \_FILENAME
String: %dummy filename%
2nd:
Delete Tag Field:
Field: DUMMY FILENAME
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### Author:  [@monty68](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/monty68)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/anyway-to-access-the-filename/10937/3 "2010-10-13T20:57:17Z")
Hmm, nice little work around there, thanks.
Really hoping the developers could add this little change in to an upcomming (next) release.
Hint, hint, please, beg grovel 😃
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### Author:  [@monty68](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/monty68)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2010, 9:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/anyway-to-access-the-filename/10937/4 "2010-10-16T09:09:24Z")
Well I took your hint and knocked up a little Action script that does the job for me 😃
Still be nice to get to the %\_filename% within the web source script though 😉
[Add\_Filename\_to\_Title.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/e/ee55e96db428954e0feb23b291e4e4e936d9d3c1.mta) (111 Bytes)
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### Author:  [@monty68](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/monty68)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2015, 7:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/anyway-to-access-the-filename/10937/5 "2015-05-05T07:20:48Z")
Been a long while since I have been on the forum 🙂
I still require the ability to access the filename type variables within a web sources
script, please any chance this could be added in, this time I want to load up
a local XML file to extract tag data from rather than collect from a true web source
i.e.
[AlbumUrl]=file://%\_filename%.nfo
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### Author:  [@monty68](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/monty68)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2015, 10:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/anyway-to-access-the-filename/10937/6 "2015-06-01T10:53:10Z")
Sorry to pester but really would like to know if this feature could be added, it would save me hours?
Just want to know if its on the to-do list or not 🙂