A little Python daemon to keep my photos organized on Dropbox.
It watches a source directory for modifications and moves new image files to a target directory depending on when the photo was taken, using EXIF data and creation date as a fallback.
Directory and file names follow a simple naming convention (YYYY-MM/YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.ext) that keeps everything neatly organized. Duplicates are detected and ignored based on their SHA1 hash. Photos taken in the same instant get deduplicated by adding a suffix (-1, -2, etc) to their filenames.
The result looks somewhat like this:
├── 2013
│ ├── 2013-01
│ │ ├── 2013-01-05\ 13.24.45.jpg
│ │ ├── 2013-01-05\ 14.25.54.jpg
│ │ ├── 2013-01-05\ 21.28.48-1.jpg
│ │ ├── 2013-01-06\ 16.05.02.jpg
│ │ ├── 2013-01-06\ 19.59.25.jpg
│ │ ├── 2013-01-06\ 20.40.28.jpg
│ │ ├── 2013-01-06\ 21.14.38.jpg
│ │ ├── 2013-01-08\ 11.45.51.jpg
│ ├── 2013-02
│ | ├─ ...
│ ├── ...
│ └── 2013-12
├── 2014
│ ├── 2014-01
│ ├── 2014-02
│ ├── ...
│ └── 2014-12
├── ...
I use ~/Dropbox/Camera Uploads as the source directory and ~/Dropbox/Photos as the target. This means I can use Dropbox's phone apps to automatically upload and organize new photos.
Inspired by
- http://simplicitybliss.com/exporting-your-iphoto-library-to-dropbox/
- https://github.com/wting/exifrenamer
- http://chambersdaily.com/learning-to-love-photo-management/
$ git clone git@github.com:dbader/photosorter.git
$ cd photosorter
$ pyvenv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
$ py.test
Watch src_dir and sort incoming photos into dest_dir.
$ ./sorter.py src_dir dest_dir
- Move
photosorter.conf.exampleto/etc/initasphotosorter.confand edit it to suit your needs by replacing the user, source and target directories. - Run
$ sudo start photosorter. - Check the logs at
/var/log/upstart/photosorter.log.
Daniel Bader – @dbader_org – mail@dbader.org
Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.