Phockup

Media sorting tool to organize photos and videos from your camera in folders by year, month and day.

How it works

The software will collect all files from the input directory and copy them to the output directory without changing the files content. It will only rename the files and place them in the proper directory for year, month and day.

All files which are not images or videos or those which do not have creation date information will be placed in a directory called unknown without file name change. By doing this you can be sure that the input directory can be safely deleted after the successful process completion because all files from the input directory have a copy in the output directory.

Installation

Linux (snap)

Requires snapd

sudo snap install phockup

Note: snap applications can access files only in your home and /media directories for security reasons. If your media files are not located in these directories you should use the installation method below.
If your files are in /media you should run the following command to allow access:

sudo snap connect phockup:removable-media

Linux (without snap)

If you are using distro which doesn't support snapd or you don't want to download the snap you can use the following commands to download the source and set it up

sudo apt-get install python3 libimage-exiftool-perl -y
curl -L https://github.com/ivandokov/phockup/archive/latest.tar.gz -o phockup.tar.gz
tar -zxf phockup.tar.gz
sudo mv phockup-* /opt/phockup
sudo ln -s /opt/phockup/phockup.py /usr/local/bin/phockup

Mac

Requires Homebrew

brew tap ivandokov/homebrew-contrib
brew install phockup

Windows

Download and install latest stable Python 3
Download Phockup's latest release and extract the archive
Download exiftool from the official website and extract the archive
Rename exiftool(-k).exe to exiftool.exe
Move exiftool.exe to phockup folder
Open Command Prompt and cd to phockup folder
Use the command below (use phockup.py instead of phockup)

Docker

docker run -v ~/Pictures:/mnt ivandokov/phockup:latest phockup /mnt/Input /mnt/Output [PHOCKUP ARGUMENTS]

The -v ~/Pictures:/mnt part of the command mounts your ~/Pictures directory to /mnt inside the container. You can pass any absolute path to be mounted to the container and later on be used as paths for the phockup command. The example above provides your ~/Pictures/Input as INPUTDIR and ~/Pictures/Output as OUTPUDIR. You can pass additional arguments afterwards.

Usage

Organize photos from one directory into another

phockup INPUTDIR OUTPUTDIR

INPUTDIR is the directory where your photos are located. OUTPUTDIR is the directory where your sorted photos will be stored. It could be a new not existing directory.

Example:

phockup ~/Pictures/camera ~/Pictures/sorted

Version

If you want to view the version of phockup use the flag -v | --version.

Date format

If you want to change the output directories date format you can do it by passing the format as -d | --date argument. You can choose different year format (e.g. 17 instead of 2017) or decide to skip the day directories and have all photos sorted in year/month.

Supported formats:
    YYYY - 2016, 2017 ...
    YY   - 16, 17 ...
    MM   - 07, 08, 09 ...
    M    - July, August, September ...
    m    - Jul, Aug, Sept ...
    DD   - 27, 28, 29 ... (day of month)
    DDD  - 123, 158, 365 ... (day of year)

Example:
    YYYY/MM/DD -> 2011/07/17
    YYYY/M/DD  -> 2011/July/17
    YYYY/m/DD  -> 2011/Jul/17
    YY/m-DD    -> 11/Jul-17

Missing date information in EXIF

If any of the photos does not have date information you can use the -r | --regex option to specify date format for date extraction from filenames:

--regex="(?P<day>\d{2})\.(?P<month>\d{2})\.(?P<year>\d{4})[_-]?(?P<hour>\d{2})\.(?P<minute>\d{2})\.(?P<second>\d{2})"

As a last resort, specify the -t | --timestamp option to use the file modification timestamp. This may not be accurate in all cases but can provide some kind of date if you'd rather it not go into the unknown folder.

Move files

Instead of copying the process will move all files from the INPUTDIR to the OUTPUTDIR by using the flag -m | --move. This is useful when working with a big collection of files and the remaining free space is not enough to make a copy of the INPUTDIR.

Link files

Instead of copying the process will create hard link all files from the INPUTDIR into new structure in OUTPUTDIR by using the flag -l | --link. This is useful when working with good structure of photos in INPUTDIR (like folders per device).

Original filenames

Organize the files in selected format or using the default year/month/day format but keep original filenames by using the flag -o | --original-names.

File Type

By default, Phockup addresses both image and video files. If you want to restrict your command to either images or videos only, use --file-type=[image|video].

Fix incorrect dates

If date extracted from photos is incorrect, you can use the -f | --date-field option to set the correct exif field to get date information from. Use this command to list which fields are available for a file:

exiftool -time:all -mimetype -j file.jpg

The output may look like this, but with more fields:

[{
  "DateTimeOriginal": "2017:10:06 01:01:01",
  "CreateDate": "2017:01:01 01:01:01",
]}

If the correct date is in DateTimeOriginal, you can include the option --date-field=DateTimeOriginal to get date information from it. To set multiple fields to be tried in order until a valid date is found, just join them with spaces in a quoted string like "CreateDate FileModifyDate".

Dry run

If you want phockup to run without any changes (don't copy/move any files) but just show which changes would be done, enable this feature by using the flag -y | --dry-run.

Log

If you want phockup to run and store the output in a log file use the flag --log. This flag can be used in conjunction with the flag -q | --quiet.

--log=<PATH>/log.txt

Quiet run

If you want phockup to run without any output (displaying only error messages, and muting all progress messages) use the flag -q | --quiet.

Limit directory traversal depth

If you would like to limit how deep the directories are traversed, you can use the --maxdepth option to specify the maximum number of levels below the input directory to process. In order to process only the input directory, you can disable sub-directory processing with: --maxdepth=0 The current implementation is limited to a maximum depth of 255.

Development

Running tests

To run the tests, first install the dev dependencies using

pip3 install -r requirements-dev.txt

Then run the tests using

pytest

To run the tests with coverage reports run

pytest --cov-report term-missing:skip-covered --cov=src tests/

Please add the necessary tests when committing a feature or improvement.

Style Guide Ruleset

Please make sure that the code is compliant as described below when committing a feature or improvement.

Flake8

We use flake8 to check the PEP 8 ruleset.

Code style for the line length are following the description of the tool black In a nutshell, this comes down to to 88 characters per line. This number was found to produce significantly shorter files.

isort

We also use [isort](https://github.com/PyCQA/isort to check if import are sorted alphabetically, separated into sections and by type.

single-quotes and double-quotes

We try to adhere to the following as much as possible: Use single-quotes for string literals, e.g. 'my-identifier', but use double-quotes for strings that are likely to contain single-quote characters as part of the string itself (such as error messages, or any strings containing natural language), e.g. "You've got an error!".

Single-quotes are easier to read and to type, but if a string contains single-quote characters then double-quotes are better than escaping the single-quote characters or wrapping the string in double single-quotes.

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