EXIF Scrubber

A simple Python script to remove EXIF metadata from images. EXIF Scrubber does not modify your existing images.

Installation

Just clone the repository or download the exif-scrub.py file.

To install requirements, run pip install -r requirements.txt, or manually install the requirements listed in that file.

Usage

Give the script a glob of images to scrub EXIF data from.

$ python3 exif-scrub.py "GLOB" OPTIONS

Options

-G, --gps

Remove all GPS related EXIF data.

$ python3 exif-scrub.py "protest/*.jpg" --gps

- gps_version_id
- gps_latitude_ref
- gps_latitude
- gps_longitude_ref
- gps_longitude
- gps_altitude_ref
- gps_altitude
- gps_timestamp
- gps_satellites
- gps_status
- gps_measure_mode
- gps_dop
- gps_speed_ref
- gps_speed
- gps_track_ref
- gps_track
- gps_img_direction_ref
- gps_img_direction
- gps_map_datum
- gps_dest_latitude_ref
- gps_dest_latitude
- gps_dest_longitude_ref
- gps_dest_longitude
- gps_dest_bearing_ref
- gps_dest_bearing
- gps_dest_distance_ref
- gps_dest_distance
- gps_processing_method
- gps_area_information
- gps_datestamp
- gps_differential
- gps_horizontal_positioning_error

-A, --all

Remove all EXIF data form the image.

-P, --pattern

Provide a Regex pattern to match. EXIF tags are converted to snake_case, so your pattern should match.

$ python3 exif-scrub.py "protest/*.jpg" --pattern "datetime"

- datetime
- datetime_original
- datetime_digitized