PhotoSort Project

What is PhotoSort?

PhotoSort simplifies your photo inbox, it watches for a set of photo input directories, to catalog and move into a predefined storage, it can delete the input or keep it.

It does take care of duplicate files, if there is a duplicate in a it will be moved to the duplicates directory

Easy install

pip3 install photosort

PhotoSort depends on exiftool, please install exiftool in your system.

Alternate install method

git clone https://github.com/mangelajo/photosort
cd photosort
sudo python3 setup.py install

How to use it

Create a config file in /etc/photosort.yml or anywhere else and use the --config parameter.

Then run:

photosort rebuilddb # only for the first time

photosort sync # to sync new files in

or

photosort monitor # to keep it running and watching for new files

The database

It's a plain textfile for now, I want to be able to remove or edit entries by hand if needed, at least on early stages of the project.

In the future this must be an sqlite file.

Dependencies

photosort depends on exiftool to identify the original creation time of videos or pictures.

Configuration

Configuration is stored in YAML format

Don't create the field 'file_prefix' if no change is desired in the filename of the media items.

This is an example file:

sources:
  dropbox:
    dir: '/Users/ajo/Dropbox/Camera Uploads'
  nasinbox:
    dir: '/mnt/nas/Pictures/inbox'


output:
  dir: '/mnt/nas/Pictures'
  dir_pattern: "%(year)d/%(year)04d_%(month)02d_%(day)02d"
  file_prefix: "%(year)d%(month)02d%(day)02d%(hour)02d%(minute)02d%(second)02d_"
  duplicates_dir: 'duplicates'
  chmod: 0o774
  log_file: 'photosort.log'
  db_file: 'photosort.db'

Release Notes

2021.1.4

• PIL image library has been replaced for exiftool so datetime from videos can be obtained too.
• Files with no creation datetime EXIF or tags are ignored for now.