ComfyUI-MetaWipe

MetaWipe adds two practical media utility nodes to ComfyUI:

• MetaWipe (All-in-One): creates cleaned copies of media files with non-essential metadata removed.
• MetaWipe Metadata Inspector: inspects media metadata before/after cleanup with a built-in per-file viewer.

Why Use This

• View and clear sensitive metadata before publishing to the web
• Clean metadata from many sources - single files or entire folders and subfolders of mixed images, videos, audios
• Keep final outputs organized while retaining your original copies

Installation

1. Clone this repository in ComfyUI/custom_nodes/.

git clone https://github.com/UltimateIntent/ComfyUI-MetaWipe/

2. Restart ComfyUI.

3. Add MetaWipe (All-in-One) and/or MetaWipe Metadata Inspector nodes to your ComfyUI workflow

Runtime Requirements

• Python packages: pillow, numpy
• System dependency: ffmpeg available in PATH

Node: MetaWipe (All-in-One)

Creates cleaned media copies with stable sequential naming.

Inputs

• any_input (required): accepts media from:
  • file path strings (single or multiline)
  • directory paths
  • IMAGE VIDEO and AUDIO types
  • compatible wrapper objects
• recursive (BOOLEAN, default false): if true, includes subfolders in metadata cleaning
• output_subfolder (STRING, default %Y-%m-%d): target folder under ComfyUI output directory.
  • Supports strftime formatting (%Y, %m, %d, etc.)
  • Supports environment variable expansion (Windows-style %VAR%)
• output_filename_prefix (STRING, default clean_): prefix for saved cleaned files.

Outputs

• output_files (STRING): newline-separated list of created file paths.
• any_out (Any): passthrough-oriented output for downstream chaining.

Naming Rules

• Uses incrementing sequence numbers (00000, 00001, ...).
• Continues from highest existing sequence in the destination folder.
• Includes original source filename in saved copy names.
• Handles collisions with _(1), _(2), etc.

Node: MetaWipe Metadata Inspector

Inspects metadata and provides a selectable per-file JSON viewer in the node UI.

Inputs

• any_input (required): accepts the same input forms as MetaWipe.
• recursive (BOOLEAN, default false): if true, includes subfolders in metadata viewer

Outputs

• metadata_text (STRING): readable metadata summary.
• metadata_json (STRING): structured JSON metadata.
• filepaths_out (STRING): list of inspected file paths.
• any_out (Any): output of input for graph chaining

Viewer Behavior

• Dropdown selector lets you switch file-by-file.
• Viewer panel displays pretty JSON for the selected item.

Typical Workflows

• Before/after verification
  • Any source -> Metadata Inspector (precleaned) -> MetaWipe -> Metadata Inspector (postclean verification)
• Direct cleanup
  • Any source -> MetaWipe
• Path-based chaining
  • MetaWipe.output_files -> Metadata Inspector.any_input