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lupaxa-photo-renamer

Safely copy or move photographs and videos into consistent date-based filenames. Reads image EXIF or video metadata when available, falls back to filesystem modification time, detects common source apps, and reports progress with Rich.

Built for media libraries used by The Lupaxa Project.

Features

  • Date-based filenames from EXIF, video metadata, or filesystem mtime
  • Copy by default; --move only when you intend to remove sources
  • --dry-run plans and reports without writing files or logs
  • Never overwrites: collisions get _001, _002, and so on
  • Optional source labels in names (datetime, source, source-first)
  • Optional organise / flatten layout for detected sources
  • Concurrent copy/move workers and a tab-separated audit log
  • Fully typed, linted, formatted, and tested
  • MkDocs documentation included

Installation

From PyPI

pip install lupaxa-photo-renamer

From source (development mode)

pip install -e ".[dev]"

The console command is photo-renamer.

Video timestamp extraction uses MediaInfo. If it is unavailable on your system, install the MediaInfo package with your operating system's package manager (brew install mediainfo on macOS or apt install mediainfo on Debian/Ubuntu). auto still falls back to filesystem mtime.

CLI quick start

photo-renamer --help
photo-renamer --dry-run --recursive ~/Pictures
photo-renamer --recursive ~/Pictures
photo-renamer --recursive --format source ~/Pictures
photo-renamer --recursive --organise ~/Pictures
photo-renamer --recursive --output /Volumes/Archive --move ~/Pictures

By default, files are copied and results are written below PATH/renamed/. Existing relative directories are preserved:

Pictures/holiday/day-1/IMG-20260801-WA0001.JPG
→ Pictures/renamed/holiday/day-1/2026-08-01_14-55-22.jpg

Requirements

  • Python 3.13+
  • Runtime dependencies: rich, Pillow, pillow-heif, platformdirs, pymediainfo
  • System MediaInfo for video timestamps (optional; mtime fallback remains)

Documentation

Online documentation:

Documentation

Source repository:

GitHub

Serve docs locally

From a clone of the repository:

make mkdocs-serve

Then open the local URL printed by MkDocs in your browser.

Development

Clone the repository and install with Make:

make init                # first-time makefile-skills checkout
make python-install-dev  # editable install with [dev]
make python-check        # lint, type-check, and test
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