Photo Organizer

Need an organizer for your media content on the computer? Run this!

Features

• Organize photos and videos in a folder structure based off creation dates.

  • Photos organized based off of EXIF creation dates.

  • Whitelisted photo file types. ("jpeg", "jpg", "JPEG", "JPG", "HEIC", "heic", "PNG", "png")

  • Video organized based off of FFMPEG creation dates.

  • Whitelisted video file types. ("mp4", "MP4", "mov", "MOV")

  • User provides target folder of unorganized images. Will move photos to a default photos directory in the directory where the binary was ran. The outputed folders will be the respective creation dates on the media.

• Allow configurable destination folder.

  • Use the --dest flag.

Dependencies

• C++ build tools (or equivalent like build-essentials) (for ffmpeg-next package)
• FFMPEG

CLI usage

To quickly organize photos in the target folder, run the following command to output them into the default destination directory.

bash photo_organizer --target test-media

To add a destination folder for all the organized photos, add the --dest <DEST_FOLDER> flag to the end.

While developing with cargo, forward the flags.

bash cargo run -- --target test-photos

Future development

• Make a multi-media organizer binary.
• Organize single file entry through cli.
• through CLI organize specific media files.
• Organize audio files? https://github.com/pdeljanov/Symphonia

• Export web assembly binary to use in JS/Node/Electron.

  • Watch out for DEST_FOLDER environment variable.

• Option to index photos.

• Option to compress image sizes.