Organize your photos by date.
You need exiftool installed in order to read metadata from photos/videos.
On Ubuntu/Debian et al. you can install it with:
sudo apt install exiftool
For other distributions or platforms, please refer to these instructions.
git clone https://github.com/johan-andersson01/photo_organizer.git
cd photo_organizer
echo "use flake" >> .envrc
python3 photo_organizer.py -h
cd photo_organizer
pip install pyexiftool
python3 photo_organizer.py -h
photo_organizer will currently reorganize your photos/videos to directories named by year, inside of which the files are named by the complete date the photo/video was taken/shot.
There are future plans to also incorporate the geographical location of the photo/video in the file structure; probably as subdirectories for each year.
usage: photo_organizer.py [-h] [--exclude EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...]]
[--suffix SUFFIX [SUFFIX ...]]
[--prefix PREFIX [PREFIX ...]] --out OUT --dir DIR
[--log LOG] [--delete-after-copy]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--exclude EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...]
Exclude paths containing any of these strings
--suffix SUFFIX [SUFFIX ...]
Filter on file name suffix
--prefix PREFIX [PREFIX ...]
Filter on file name prefix
--out OUT Output directory path
--dir DIR Input directory path
--log LOG Log file path
--delete-after-copy Delete the original file after it has been copied and
renamed OR skipped. BACKUP your input before doing
this.
Executing ./photo_organizer.py --dir ~/Pictures/photo_organizer_test/ --out ./test --log log.txt gives the following.
├── photo_organizer_test
│ ├── 121010_m_uy543_012_by_wright_usmc_d5hr70h.jpg
│ ├── 3_times_a_day_by_hersley_dvzs8y.jpg
│ ├── an_odd_couple_by_driftermanifesto_d4y9ql7.jpg
│ ├── band_of_brothers_by_combatcamera09_d5a3pch.jpg
│ ├── baskunchak_by_alexmaker34_d3co5p2.jpg
│ ├── good_morning_vietnam___lampions_in_hue_by_rikitza_dc1xbja.jpg
│ ├── have_a_seat_by_ulivonboedefeld_d29qnz3.jpg
│ ├── hoi_an_people___xii_by_inayatshah_davrdz5.jpg
│ ├── ied_detection_dog_by_militaryphotos_d55rz1x.jpg
│ └── smiles_by_digitalgrace_d1llmdg.jpg
└── test
├── 2006
│ └── 2006.12.19_17.59.15.jpg
├── 2007
│ └── 2007.04.13_07.51.30.jpg
├── 2009
│ └── 2009.09.17_01.45.58.jpg
├── 2011
│ └── 2011.03.27_12.04.52.jpg
├── 2012
│ ├── 2012.01.04_16.39.13.jpg
│ ├── 2012.03.18_11.27.36.jpg
│ ├── 2012.07.22_20.54.54.jpg
│ └── 2012.10.10_10.23.01.jpg
├── 2014
│ └── 2014.01.06_03.34.56.jpg
├── 2018
│ └── 2018.01.18_06.15.46.jpg
└── failed