A script sorting images based on Exif-date into dated subdirectories, like Pictures/2023/09/2023-09-01/image.jpg.
- Crawls all subdirectories of the input-source, grabs exif-data from each file and copies it to a path based on the extracted date.
- If two files got the same name - compares the file contents and skips if its the same, adds a suffix if its not.
- If the date cant be decided - copies the file to a defined "no_date_dir" to be sorted manually.
- Logs everything to a
debug.log.
- Python3
- Exifread (python module, install with eg. pip)
- Only tested on Linux
Edit the media_datesort.py and adjust:
input_path = "./Testing/Input"
output_path = "./Testing/Output"
file_types = (".jpeg", ".jpg", ".png", ".mp4", ".dng")
no_date_dir = "NoDate" # name of the directory to store no-dated images
date_separator = "-" # character to separate dates, eg. 2023-01-01 or 2023.01.01 DONT use slashes
To change the final subdirectory layout from /2023/09/2023-09-01/image.jpg to /2023/09/01/image.jpg edit this line:
# from /YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD/image.jpg:
output_dir = os.path.join(output_path, date_list[0], date_list[1], date_stamp)
# to /YYYY/MM/DD/image.jpg:
output_dir = os.path.join(output_path, date_list[0], date_list[1], date_list[2])Started working on some kind of filename-date-extraction but before I started validating the dates, I realised without a defined pattern and some rules, many dates will be valid but wrong.
For another day..