Photo Keeper -¶
Photo Keeper is a small script that I wrote to address the demise of my Eye-Fi Wifi SD card. This script will take a source directory (say the contents of a flash card from a camera), scan all the image/video file EXIFs, and sort them into date-based folders in a user-specified directory. It will optionally only copy files that have not already been copied (deduplication per folder). Photo Keeper can also upload all the files to Flickr into the same date-based album structure, also taking care not to duplicate files.
At some point, I intend to integrate this with the FlashAir series of cards for auto-uploads directly from the camera, but that is still a work in progress.
- Free and open-source software: ASL2 license
- Blog: http://virantha.com/category/projects/photokeeper
- Documentation: http://virantha.github.io/photokeeper/html
- Source: https://github.com/virantha/photokeeper
Features¶
- Sort image files (JPEG/TIFF) and video files into date-based folders (currently only YYYY-MM-DD format supported)
- Upload images and videos to Flickr into date-based albums
- Avoid duplication of files based on photo taken time, size, and filename
Usage:¶
Examine files¶
Examine the files in a given source directory (no changes or copying):
photokeeper SRC_DIR examine
Results in:
Examining 482 files in /source
100%|██████████████████████████████████████▉| 481/482 [00:08<00:00, 59.88file/s]
Found images from 14 days
{ '2016-06-24': 5,
'2016-07-02': 30,
'2016-07-03': 12,
'2016-07-04': 32,
'2016-07-05': 3,
'2016-07-21': 1,
'2016-08-02': 20,
'2016-08-05': 51,
'2016-09-30': 13,
'2016-10-09': 131,
'2016-10-10': 46,
'2016-10-29': 91,
'2016-10-31': 45,
'2016-11-06': 1}
Total images: 481
Copy files to a directory¶
Copy the files in a given source directory to a target directory with no duplication:
photokeeper SRC_DIR TGT_DIR dedupe file
Upload files to Flickr¶
First, go to Flickr and get a private key at http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.api_keys.html
Then, create a directory from where you will start photokeeper, and create a file called flickr_api.yaml:
key: "YOUR_API_KEY"
secret: "YOUR_API_SECRET"
Now, use the following command:
photokeeper SRC_DIR TGT_DIR dedupe flickr
Full help¶
Usage:
photokeeper.py [options] SOURCE_DIR examine
photokeeper.py [options] SOURCE_DIR TARGET_DIR [dedupe] file
photokeeper.py [options] SOURCE_DIR [dedupe] flickr
photokeeper.py [options] SOURCE_DIR TARGET_DIR [dedupe] file flickr
photokeeper.py [options] SOURCE_DIR TARGET_DIR all
photokeeper.py --conf=FILE
photokeeper.py -h
Arguments:
SOURCE_DIR Source directory of photos
TARGET_DIR Where to copy the image files
all Run all steps in the flow (examine,dedupe,flickr,file)
examine Examine EXIF tags
dedupe Only select files not already present in target directory
flickr Upload to flickr
file Copy files
Options:
-h --help show this message
-v --verbose show more information
-d --debug show even more information
--conf=FILE load options from file
Installation¶
PhotoKeeper is currently only tested and provided for Python 3.5. I have no plans to backport this to Python 2.x as I am shifting all my new development to 3.x exclusively.
Disclaimer¶
The software is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.