Organizing your photos automatically

Now that we have a class that allows us to gather information about photos, we can apply this information to perform useful tasks. In this case, we will use the file information to automatically organize a folder full of photos into a subset of folders based on the dates the photos were taken on.

 

 

The following screenshot shows the output of the script:

Script output to organize photos in folder

Getting ready

You will need a selection of photos placed in a folder on Raspberry Pi. Alternatively, you can insert a USB memory stick or a card reader with photos on it—they will be located in /mnt/. However, please make sure you test the scripts with a copy of your photos first, just in case there are any problems.

How to do it...

Create the following script in filehandler.py to automatically organize your photos:

#!/usr/bin/python3 
#filehandler.py 
import os 
import shutil 
import photohandler as PH 
from operator import itemgetter 
 
FOLDERSONLY=True 
DEBUG=True...