DMeta 0.1

Removing microsoft office files' metadata

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Table of contents

• Overview
• Installation
• Usage
• Issues & Bug Reports
• Todo
• Contribution
• Authors
• License
• Show Your Support
• Changelog
• Code of Conduct

Overview

DMeta is an open source Python package that removes metadata of Microsoft Office files.

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Installation

PyPI

• Check Python Packaging User Guide
• Run pip install dmeta==0.1

Source code

• Download Version 0.1 or Latest Source
• Run pip install .

Usage

In Python

Clear metadata for a .docx file

import os
from dmeta.functions import clear

DOCX_FILE_PATH = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "sample.docx")
clear(DOCX_FILE_PATH)

Clear metadata for all existing .docx files in the current directory

from dmeta.functions import clear_all
clear_all()

Update metadata for a .docx file

import os
from dmeta.functions import update

CONFIG_FILE_PATH = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "config.json") 
DOCX_FILE_PATH = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "sample.docx")
update(CONFIG_FILE_PATH, DOCX_FILE_PATH)

Update metadata for all existing .docx files in the current directory

import os
from dmeta.functions import update_all

CONFIG_FILE_PATH = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "config.json") 
update_all(CONFIG_FILE_PATH)

CLI

⚠️ You can use dmeta or python -m dmeta to run this program

Version

dmeta -v
dmeta --version

Clear metadata for a .docx file

dmeta --clear "./test_a.docx"

Clear metadata for all existing .docx files in the current directory

dmeta --clear-all

Update metadata for a .docx file

dmeta --update "./test_a.docx" --config "./config.json"

Update metadata for all existing .docx files in the current directory

dmeta --update-all --config "./config.json"

Supported files

File format	support
Microsoft word office(.docx)	✅

Issues & bug reports

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• Please complete the issue template

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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

Changed

[0.1] - 2024-06-19

Added

• CLI handler
• main function in __main__.py
• README.md
• clear function functions.py
• clear_all function in functions.py
• update function functions.py
• update_all function functions.py
• run_dmeta function functions.py
• dmeta_help function functions.py
• extract_namespaces function in util.py
• remove_format function in util.py
• extract_docx function in util.py
• read_json function in util.py

[0.1]: https://github.com/openscilab/dmeta/compare/9a4ad10 ...v0.1