pyexiftool | Python library to communicate with an instance of Phil

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pyexiftool is a Python library. pyexiftool has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available and it has low support. However pyexiftool has a Non-SPDX License. You can install using 'pip install pyexiftool' or download it from GitHub, PyPI.

a Python library to communicate with an instance of Phil Harvey's excellent ExifTool command-line application.

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pyexiftool has a low active ecosystem.

It has 218 star(s) with 95 fork(s). There are 18 watchers for this library.

It had no major release in the last 6 months.

There are 17 open issues and 7 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 5 days. There are 8 open pull requests and 0 closed requests.

It has a neutral sentiment in the developer community.

The latest version of pyexiftool is current.

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pyexiftool has 0 bugs and 0 code smells.

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pyexiftool has no vulnerabilities reported, and its dependent libraries have no vulnerabilities reported.

pyexiftool code analysis shows 0 unresolved vulnerabilities.

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pyexiftool has a Non-SPDX License.

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pyexiftool releases are not available. You will need to build from source code and install.

Deployable package is available in PyPI.

Build file is available. You can build the component from source.

pyexiftool saves you 90 person hours of effort in developing the same functionality from scratch.

It has 231 lines of code, 22 functions and 5 files.

It has high code complexity. Code complexity directly impacts maintainability of the code.

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Get metadata for a given file
Execute a command
Execute a JSON query
Return a function to encode filename

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How to output JSON with PyExifTool

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How to output JSON with PyExifTool

Asked 2020-Apr-26 at 18:27

I am running the following code to output a list of image and video files on a shared drive along with the creation date. However, I just cannot seem to get the execute_json method working properly. The documentation for the project is not extensive.

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Answered 2020-Apr-26 at 18:27

I think you may be misunderstanding the documentation. If we look at the docs for the execute_json method, it says:

Execute the given batch of parameters and parse the JSON output.

This method is similar to :py:meth:execute(). It automatically adds the parameter -j to request JSON output from exiftool and parses the output. The return value is a list of dictionaries, mapping tag names to the corresponding values.

This clearly states that the exiftool module parses the output, which is to say it reads the JSON data and returns a list of Python data structures.

Similarly, the documentation for get_tags_batch says:

The format of the return value is the same as for :py:meth:execute_json().

So when you do this...

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61442704

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Install pyexiftool

You can install using 'pip install pyexiftool' or download it from GitHub, PyPI.
You can use pyexiftool like any standard Python library. You will need to make sure that you have a development environment consisting of a Python distribution including header files, a compiler, pip, and git installed. Make sure that your pip, setuptools, and wheel are up to date. When using pip it is generally recommended to install packages in a virtual environment to avoid changes to the system.

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