mdinfo-exiftool

Plugin for mdinfo that provides a template interface to exiftool.

Synopsis

$ mdinfo -p "{exiftool:XMP:Title}" -p "{exiftool:Keywords}" *.jpeg
flowers.jpeg: Zinia flowers in a field
pears.jpeg: Pears on a tree fruit pears

Installation

Requires mdinfo to be installed.

pip install mdinfo
pip install mdinfo-exiftool

Or if installed via pipx:

pipx install mdinfo
pipx inject mdinfo mdinfo-exiftool

Template Help

Photo and video files (and other files supported by exiftool)

Field Description

{exiftool} Format: '{exiftool:GROUP:TAGNAME}'; use exiftool (https://exiftool.org) to extract metadata, in form GROUP:TAGNAME or TAGNAME, from image. E.g. '{exiftool:Make}' to get camera make, or {exiftool:IPTC:Keywords} to extract keywords. See https://exiftool.org/TagNames/ for list of valid tag names. Group name is optional (e.g. EXIF, IPTC, etc) but if specified, should be the same as used in exiftool -G, e.g. '{exiftool:EXIF:Make}'. exiftool must be installed in the path to use this template field (https://exiftool.org/).

Field	Description
{exiftool}	Format: '{exiftool:GROUP:TAGNAME}'; use exiftool (https://exiftool.org) to extract metadata, in form GROUP:TAGNAME or TAGNAME, from image. E.g. '{exiftool:Make}' to get camera make, or {exiftool:IPTC:Keywords} to extract keywords. See https://exiftool.org/TagNames/ for list of valid tag names. Group name is optional (e.g. EXIF, IPTC, etc) but if specified, should be the same as used in `exiftool -G`, e.g. '{exiftool:EXIF:Make}'. exiftool must be installed in the path to use this template field (https://exiftool.org/).

The {exiftool} template uses the third-party exiftool app (https://exiftool.org) to extract metadata from photo and video files.

It must be used with one or more subfields which are exiftool tags, for example: {exiftool:EXIF:Make} for camera make, or {exiftool:IPTC:Keywords} for keywords. The exiftool Group name (e.g. IPTC) is optional.

There are two derived subfields: created and modified which represent the created date or the modified date, respectively. These subfields are datetime values and you can access the various attributes of the datetime by using an attribute name following a period, e.g. {exiftool:created.year} for the 4-digit year.

The following attributes are supported:

Attribute	Description
date	ISO date, e.g. 2020-03-22
year	4-digit year, e.g. 2021
yy	2-digit year, e.g. 21
month	Month name as locale's full name, e.g. December
mon	Month as locale's abbreviated name, e.g. Dec
mm	2-digit month, e.g. 12
dd	2-digit day of the month, e.g. 22
dow	Day of the week as locale's full name, e.g. Tuesday
doy	Julian day of year starting from 001
hour	2-digit hour, e.g. 10
min	2-digit minute, e.g. 15
sec	2-digit second, e.g. 30
strftime	Apply strftime template to date/time. Should be used in form {created.strftime,TEMPLATE} where TEMPLATE is a valid strftime template, e.g. {created.strftime,%Y-%U} would result in year-week number of year: '2020-23'. If used with no template will return null value. See https://strftime.org/ for help on strftime templates.

Testing

Tested on Ubuntu Linux and macOS Ventura using Python 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11.

Contributing