adri organizes JPEG/TIFF photographs according to their EXIF date and location data into a custom directory structure.
In other words, it turns this:
$ tree photos/
photos/
├── IMG100001.jpg
├── IMG100002.jpg
└── IMG100003.jpg
To this:
$ tree photos/
photos/
└── 2018/
└── 10/
└── 14/
└── London
├── IMG100001.jpg
├── IMG100002.jpg
└── IMG100003.jpg
Installation
Install the necessary packages. For Debian/Ubuntu, issue:
sudo apt install ruby-full git build-essential libexif-dev
Install adri:
sudo gem install adri
Configuration
API key
The GPS coordinates (latitude, longitude) of each photograph's EXIF headers are converted to a corresponding location name using the Google Maps API. For this, you need a free API key with the Geocoding API enabled.
You can set the ADRI_GOOGLE_API_KEY
environment variable in your shell's
configuration file. For Bash, issue:
$ cat >>.~/.bashrc
export ADRI_GOOGLE_API_KEY=yourapikeyhere
^D
Note: ^D
stands for Ctrl-D
You can also pass the API key as a command line option with --api-key
. This
overrides the environment variable.
Location language
It's possible to configure the language (default is en
for English) used in
location names by setting the ADRI_LOCALE
environment variable in your shell's
configuration file.
To set the language to Greek in Bash, issue:
$ cat >>.~/.bashrc
export ADRI_LOCALE=el
^D
Note: ^D
stands for Ctrl-D
You can also pass the language as a command line option with --locale
. This
overrides the environment variable.
Use
To get the help text, issue:
$ adri -h
usage: adri [options] <path>...
-p, --prefix Place everything under this path (default: photo parent directory)
-f, --path-format Format path with strftime and %{location} (default: %Y/%m/%d/%{location})
--api-key Google Maps API key (default: $ADRI_GOOGLE_API_KEY)
--locale Locale to use for %{location} in path format (default: $ADRI_LOCALE or en)
--run Perform changes instead of a dry run
-q, --quiet Do not print operations
--version Print program version
-h, --help Print help text
Dry run mode (default)
By default, adri runs in dry run mode, printing (DRY RUN)
at the end of each
line. This means it simply prints out what it would do, without actually doing
it:
$ pwd
/home/agorf/work/adri/
$ tree photos/
photos/
├── IMG100001.jpg
├── IMG100002.jpg
└── IMG100003.jpg
$ adri photos/*.jpg
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100001.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/2018/10/14/London/IMG100001.jpg (DRY RUN)
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100002.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/2018/10/14/London/IMG100002.jpg (DRY RUN)
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100003.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/2018/10/14/London/IMG100003.jpg (DRY RUN)
$ tree photos/
photos/
├── IMG100001.jpg
├── IMG100002.jpg
└── IMG100003.jpg
Run mode
To apply the changes, use the --run
option:
$ adri --run photos/*.jpg
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100001.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/2018/10/14/London/IMG100001.jpg
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100002.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/2018/10/14/London/IMG100002.jpg
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100003.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/2018/10/14/London/IMG100003.jpg
$ tree photos/
photos/
└── 2018/
└── 10/
└── 14/
└── London/
├── IMG100001.jpg
├── IMG100002.jpg
└── IMG100003.jpg
Path prefix
To place everything under a path other than the parent directory of each
photograph, use the --prefix
option:
$ adri --prefix . photos/*.jpg
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100001.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/2018/10/14/London/IMG100001.jpg (DRY RUN)
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100002.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/2018/10/14/London/IMG100002.jpg (DRY RUN)
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100003.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/2018/10/14/London/IMG100003.jpg (DRY RUN)
Path format
The default path format is %Y/%m/%d/%{location}
which stands for
year/month/day/location. Everything other than %{location}
is formatted
according to strftime(3).
It is possible to specify a custom path with the --path-format
option:
$ adri --path-format '%{location}/%b %Y/%d' photos/*.jpg
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100001.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/London/Oct 2018/14/IMG100001.jpg (DRY RUN)
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100002.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/London/Oct 2018/14/IMG100002.jpg (DRY RUN)
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100003.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/London/Oct 2018/14/IMG100003.jpg (DRY RUN)
Processing many photos
It's also possible to process many photos at once by passing space-separated file names and directories (in which case adri will recurse):
$ adri photos/IMG100001.jpg photos/IMG100002.jpg photos/IMG100003.jpg
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100001.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/2018/10/14/London/IMG100001.jpg (DRY RUN)
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100002.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/2018/10/14/London/IMG100002.jpg (DRY RUN)
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100003.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/2018/10/14/London/IMG100003.jpg (DRY RUN)
$ adri photos/
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100001.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/2018/10/14/London/IMG100001.jpg (DRY RUN)
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100002.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/2018/10/14/London/IMG100002.jpg (DRY RUN)
/home/agorf/work/adri/photos/IMG100003.jpg -> /home/agorf/work/adri/photos/2018/10/14/London/IMG100003.jpg (DRY RUN)