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It’s hidden in a context menu for the series. If you navigate to the series overview (like clicking the series name after searching for it) there will be a hot dog menu (vertical …) with an item that says “identify” or something along those lines. This will bring up an interface where you can search for the series name and select the right one.
PS: renaming the series folder to “[series name] [YYYY]”, where [YYYY] is the year when the first episode was released can help with initial identification.
Why does it need to be a scripting (by this I assume interpreted) language? For your requirements - particularly lightweight distribution - a precompiled binary seems more appropriate. Maybe look into Go, which is a pretty simple language that can be easily compiled to native binaries.