metaindex 0.2.0

Utilities to tag files

metaindex

metaindex allows you to find files based on metadata information.

For example, if you want to find all pictures that are have a certain width, you could do this:

metaindex find mimetype:image resolution:1200x

Installation

To install metaindex either install it directly through pypi:

pip install metaindex

Or clone the repository and install that then through pip:

git clone https://github.com/vonshednob/metaindex
cd metaindex
pip install .

Most modules are optional. If you, for example, want to use metaindex for audio files and PDFs, you will have to install it like this:

pip install metaindex[pdf,audio]

or, for the cloned repository:

pip install .[pdf,audio]

These modules exist for indexing:

• pdf, for PDF files,
• audio, any type of audio/music file,
• image, any type of image file,
• video, any type of video file (overlaps somewhat with audio),
• ebook, ebooks and comic book formats,
• xdg, support for XDG (if you use Linux, just add it),
• yaml, extra metadata in YAML format,
• ocr, find and extract text from images with tesseract (you must have tesseract installed for this to work).

In case you just want everything, this is your install command:

pip install .[all]

There is also an experimental FuseFS filesystem. To be able to use it, you will have to specify fuse as an additional module:

pip install .[all,fuse]

Usage

Before you can use metaindex to search for files, you have to initialize the cache by telling it where your files to index are, for example:

metaindex index --recursive --index ~/Pictures

Afterwards you can start searching for files by metadata, like this:

metaindex find 

Searching

Search queries for use with metaindex find allow you to search

• for files that have a metadata tag: metaindex find resolution?
• for files that have a metadata tag with a certain value: metaindex find title:"dude, where is my car"
• for files that have any metadata tag with a certain value: metaindex find "just anything"

Each value that you provide is actually a case insensitive regular expression.