Serveur Photo

Organize and resize your photos. The input photos are to be pasted in a dropbox folder, e.g. Dropbox. The date and time data is extracted from metadata and is used to organize the files in a YYYY/MM directory tree. Photos are automatically renamed to be easily browsed in chronological order.

If the picture is larger than a user-defined threshold, say 1MB, a miniature version of the image is also created and sorted under the YYYY/MM format.

An example folder tree would be:

The configuration file config.toml is used to specify the input/output directories and the other user-defined parameters.

Install

Get the sources

If git is installed on your system, your can clone the repository by running.

cd ~
mkdir serveur_photo
cd serveur_photo
git clone https://github.com/qdouasbin/ServeurPhoto.git 

Otherwise, simply download the ZIP file from https://github.com/qdouasbin/ServeurPhoto and extract it in the directory of your choice.

Install the required Python packages

Use the requirement.txt file to ensure that the Python libraries are installed.

cd ~/serveur_photo/Scripts/
pip3 install requirement.txt

Run the scripts

For instance, creating small pictures can be done by:

1. Copy/pasting your pictures, or folder containing pictures, in the Dropbox directory
2. Running the organize_pics.py script
3. Running the create_small.py script

Step 2 is done by going to the folder containing the scripts and running the script via the python interpreter:

cd ~/serveur_photo/Scripts/
python3 organize_pics.py

Step 3:

cd ~/serveur_photo/Scripts/
python3 create_small.py

Example of config file

#
# Configuration file of the picture save/organization/treatment
#
[Sort]
# Input directory (Dropbox), dir. where the new, non-organized, non-treated pictures are to be sought
input_dir = "../Dropbox"
# Output directory for photos organized by YYYY/MM/
output_dir = "../Sorted/Large"

[Resize]
# Size (in MegaBytes) of the "small" pictures
size_small = 1.0
# Output directory
small_dir = "../Sorted/Small"

[Videos]
video_dir = "../Sorted/Videos"