Add keywords to image metadata

[artemryzhov]

Hi!

I want to implement feature that add keywords to image metadata, by icloud album title. For example, I have 10 photos in album named "Test album", and I want to images have keyword "Test album", for quick search in Shotwell.

The difficulty in implementing data writing to a file..

I tried via piexif:

  exif_dict = piexif.load(path)
  exif_dict.get("0th")[40094] = tags // tags is string 'tag1,tag2'
  exif_bytes = piexif.dump(exif_dict)
  piexif.insert(exif_bytes, path)       

and got error

    zeroth_set = _dict_to_bytes(zeroth_ifd, "0th", 0)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piexif/_dump.py", line 337, in _dict_to_bytes
    offset)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piexif/_dump.py", line 193, in _value_to_bytes
    value_str = (_pack_byte(*raw_value) +
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piexif/_dump.py", line 162, in _pack_byte
    return struct.pack("B" * len(args), *args)
struct.error: cannot convert argument to integer

via iptcinfo:

        iptc.keywords = []
        tags = [x.strip() for x in tags.split(',')];
        iptc.keywords.extend(tags)
        iptc.save()

no errors, and no results - tags wasn't written to file...

Help, please...

[ndbroadbent]

Hi, wow that sounds difficult! Sorry but I've never really used the piexif or iptcinfo libraries, so I won't be able to help very much. (Someone else contributed the piexif code.) But it sounds like a great idea for a feature, and I'd be happy to merge a PR if you can get it working.

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On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 1:48 AM Artem Ryzhov ***@***.***> wrote: Hi! I want to implement feature that add keywords to image metadata, by icloud album title. For example, I have 10 photos in album named "Test album", and I want to images have keyword "Test album", for quick search in Shotwell. The difficulty in implementing data writing to a file.. I tried via *piexif*: exif_dict = piexif.load(path) exif_dict.get("0th")[40094] = tags // tags is string 'tag1,tag2' exif_bytes = piexif.dump(exif_dict) piexif.insert(exif_bytes, path) and got error zeroth_set = _dict_to_bytes(zeroth_ifd, "0th", 0) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piexif/_dump.py", line 337, in _dict_to_bytes offset) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piexif/_dump.py", line 193, in _value_to_bytes value_str = (_pack_byte(*raw_value) + File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piexif/_dump.py", line 162, in _pack_byte return struct.pack("B" * len(args), *args) struct.error: cannot convert argument to integer via *iptcinfo*: iptc.keywords = [] tags = [x.strip() for x in tags.split(',')]; iptc.keywords.extend(tags) iptc.save()``` no errors, and no results - tags wasn't written to file... Help, please... — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#102>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAIhENY16dtrz0ChPk7a1EOgiV2aAqJaks5ud9dlgaJpZM4W101h> .

[adamshand]

@artemryzhov did you ever find a way of doing this? I'm loving this as a way to get my photos out of iCloud, but losing 15 years worth of albums is a bummer. :-)

[RhetTbull]

@adamshand are your photos in Photos.app on a Mac or only in iCloud? If they're in Photos, I've written a tool (osxphotos) that will export them while preserving album and folder structure. It also preserves all metadata such as keywords and people in the image. It does not yet preserve album name as a keyword but that's in my backlog of "to do" features. If photos are in iCloud only, this won't help.

[adamshand]

I found your software shortly after posting this. It looks great, thanks!!

Unfortunately most of my photos are in icloud, but I’ve moved my library to an external HD and told iPhoto to start downloading them all. Pretty slow going so far but hopefully it’ll get there eventually!

I guess I can manually tag all my albums before running osxphotos as a work-a-round?

Thanks!!

[RhetTbull]

yes, manually tagging the photos with album name would work

[RhetTbull]

@adamshand I've gone ahead and implemented the feature to optionally add albums (and optionally persons) as keywords when exporting metadata to osxphotos. e.g.
python3 -m osxphotos export ~/path/to/export --directory "{album}" --album-keywords --exiftool --sidecar xmp

will export all photos, write metadata (including album name) to EXIF keywords and an XMP sidecar file and organize into directories based on album name

This fix in v0.28.7 on github.

[metahnetoutage]

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:21 PM Rhet Turnbull ***@***.***> wrote: @adamshand <https://github.com/adamshand> I've gone ahead and implemented the feature to optionally add albums (and optionally persons) as keywords when exporting metadata to osxphotos. e.g. python3 -m osxphotos export ~/path/to/export --directory "{album}" --album-keywords --exiftool --sidecar xmp will export all photos, write metadata (including album name) to EXIF keywords and an XMP sidecar file and organize into directories based on album name This fix in v0.28.7 on github. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#102 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ALE26ZVELZJMIUTBPBZCPMDROZYWNANCNFSM4FWXJVQQ> .

[adamshand]

@RhetTbull that's amazing! Photos are almost done downloading (will finish overnight) and I was just starting to experiment with tagging my albums by hand. Which was looking pretty tediously slow ... so thanks heaps! :-)