📷 Metadata Stripper

Your photos know more than you do. Read it, then erase it.

"The photo was innocent. The GPS coordinates were not."

What is it?

Every JPEG whispers: where it was taken, with what camera, at what exact moment. That whisper is EXIF — and half the time it includes the GPS coordinates. Metadata Stripper reads the whisper, shows it to you, and then removes it for good by re-encoding the pixels clean. No EXIF, no ICC, no XMP survives the trip.

Features

• 🔍 scan — dump every metadata field, flag GPS presence
• ✂️ strip — re-encode without metadata, in place or to a new file
• 🗂️ strip-dir — clean every image in a folder
• 📡 hasgps — one-word answer for scripts: yes / no
• 🖼️ JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, BMP

Install

pip install metadata-stripper

From source:

git clone https://github.com/AnonymoDGH/metadata-stripper
cd metadata-stripper
pip install -e .

Quickstart

# What is this photo hiding?
metastrip scan vacation.jpg
# [*] vacation.jpg (2,345,678 bytes)
#     Make: Secret Agent Camera
#     DateTime: 2026:08:13 03:33:33
#     GPS: ⚠ present

# Kill it
metastrip strip vacation.jpg
# [+] vacation.jpg -> vacation.jpg  (removed 5 EXIF entries)

# Or clean a whole folder of camera exports
metastrip strip-dir ./export/
# [=] 142 images cleaned in place.

# Scripting? Ask a yes/no question
metastrip hasgps vacation.jpg
# no

CLI reference

How it works

Tests

pip install pytest
pytest

The test suite hand-crafts a JPEG with a real GPS IFD (the way cameras write it) and proves the strip removes it.

License

MIT — a fiction research prop. Clean your own photos and let the protagonist's geotag be a plot point, not a leak.