Dump pictures metadata into a MongoDB database for statistics purposes
https://pypi.org/project/exif-database/
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exif-database
Dump pictures metadata into a MongoDB database for statistics purpose
How does it work?
This script works by scanning all files in given directory and then serialize the EXIF metadata to push them into a MongoDB instances.
Installation
This package is available on PyPi. You can install it using pip.
$ pip install exif-database
Configuration
No configuration is needed. You only need to set up a MongoDB server with a dedicated collection and user in order for the script to save the data.
Note: A docker compose file is provided with this repository but is only used to set up a dev environment easily.
Executing the script(s)
This package provides two binaries:
exif-database
This is the main binary, the one used to parse the EXIF and send them to MongoDB.
$ MONGO_URI=mongodb://user:pass@server/db python3 -m exif_database <path to images dir>
exif-database.exiftool
This tool parse EXIF metadata of given file and output them to stdout.
$ python3 -m exif_database.exiftool <path to image file>