Utilities to tag files
Project description
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
The following file formats are supported out of the box (although they might need additional python packages, see <#Installation>):
- images (png, jpg, etc.; whatever is supported by Pillow)
- audio (mp3, m4a, ogg, etc.; whatever is supported by mutagen)
- OpenDocument (odt, ods, etc.)
- Office Open XML (docx, pptx, xlsx)
- html
- epub
- abc music notation
- cbz (through ComicInfo.xml)
- gpx
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://codeberg.org/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 withaudio
),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]
Server dependencies
If you just want to connect to another instance of the metaindex server,
you are ready to go.
More likely though you will have to install Xapian
and its Python3 bindings. Please follow the usual way of your OS to install
both.
For example, on Archlinux you'd pacman -S xapian python-xapian
. On
debian-likes it would be apt install python3-xapian
.
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.
Usage from Python
To use the metaindex infrastructure from Python, you should instantiate a
Cache
and run queries against it (with find
).
Cache.find
will return an iterable of CacheEntry
instances, consisting of
path
, the location in the file system where that file was last seenmetadata
, a multidict of all metadatalast_modified
, the timestamp when the file was last modified on disk (to the knowledge of the cache)
You can just iterate over the CacheEntry
instances to get their tag, value
tuples.
To use the user's preferences, it's a good idea to load their configuration. Here's an example snippet that'll do both things:
from metaindex.configuration import load
from metaindex import Cache
config = load()
cache = Cache(config)
searchquery = 'mimetype:image'
for entry in cache.find(searchquery):
print(entry.path)
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