My phone's camera, when creating files, uses a specific format to construct a name for the file. The purpose of gallerysorter is to automatically sort these files into appropriate subfolders.
I had a folder with photos taken with my phone's camera that looked something like this:
photos
├── 20160113_072355.jpg
├── 20160202_175535.mp4
├── 20160205_051739.jpg
├── 20160210_112559.mp4
├── 20160226_042816.jpg
└── 20160324_125037.mp4
A common trend among these photos is that their name represents the date they've been taken. Take a look at the example, 20160113_072355.jpg:
| File | Year | Month | Day | Hour | Minute | Second |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20160113_072355.jpg | 2016 | 01 | 13 | 07 | 23 | 55 |
For a file to fulfill this format, it has to have the following properties:
- First 4 characters represent the year.
- 5-6 represent the month.
- 7-8 represent the day.
- 9 is an underscore.
- 10-11 represent the hour.
- 12-13 represent the minute.
- 14-15 represent the second.
- Extension goes after these 15 characters.
Files that match these characteristics will from here be referred to as timefiles.
gallerysorter uses this data to organize timefiles like this:
photos
└── 2016
├── February 2016
│ ├── 20160202_175535.mp4
│ ├── 20160205_051739.jpg
│ ├── 20160210_112559.mp4
│ └── 20160226_042816.jpg
├── January 2016
│ └── 20160113_072355.jpg
└── March 2016
└── 20160324_125037.mp4
- Clone the repository
- Enter the directory using
cd gallerysorter - Run the program:
python gallerysorter.py
This program was written using Python 3.5 and should be compatible with 3.6 as well. Do not run it on 2.x versions of Python, as it will result in unexpected behavior. Backwards compabitility with Python 2.7 might be implemented at a later date.
gallerysorter requires no third party modules.
Tests can be run from the base directory of the repository.
Use python3 -m unittest discover
gallerysorter has 2 commands: sort and list.
usage: gallerysorter.py list [-h] [-r] [-e EXTENSIONS [EXTENSIONS ...]] source
The list command will print out all of the timefiles that have an allowed extension.
| Argument | Use |
|---|---|
| source | The directory containing the timefiles you want to list. |
| -r | Lists the source's timefiles recursively. |
| -e | Filter the extensions the program will search for (Default: JPG and MP4.) |
usage: gallerysorter.py sort [-h] [-r] [-c] [-v] [-e EXTENSIONS [EXTENSIONS ...]] source [destination]
The sort command is used to sort timefiles within a directory.
| Argument | Use |
|---|---|
| source | The directory containing the timefiles you want to organize. |
| destination | The base directory to organize the files in (Default: same as source.) |
| -r | Sorts the timefiles in the source recursively. |
| -c | Copies files into directory instead of moving them. |
| -v | Prints out the timefiles as they're being organized in a verbose manner. |
| -e | Filter the extensions the program will sort (Default: JPG and MP4.) |
SeeLICENSE.md