Camera Photo Importer

This is a python utility useful to import photos from your camera. The default behavior is defined in a json configuration file and an example of policy is like the following:

{
    "globals": {
        "ingress": "~/Pictures/CANON/DCIM/100CANON",
        "egress": "~/Pictures/output",
        "retry": "/tmp/images.retry",
        "deep": "month"
    },
    "statistics": {
        "header": [
                "transferred",
                "skipped",
                "blacklisted",
                "failed",
                "total",
                "manually"
        ]
    },
    "format": {
        "allowed": [
                "JPG",
                "jpg",
                "jpeg",
                "png",
                "raw"
        ],
        "excluded": [
                "mp4",
                "avi",
                "jpg_",
                "png_",
                "rar"
        ]
    }
}

The nice feature of using a configuration like this is that a user can instruct application to define what it has to include/exclude from the import. It also defines the src (ingress) and dest (egress) locations and the mode to catalog the images (month, day, year are strings allowed).

If you clone this repo, the example configuration file can be found at:

~/path/to/clone/camimporter/config/parameters.json

or in your installation path of the python module.

Installation

If you are an Arch user, you can find this package on aur or you can manually install this package using the Makefile provided.

$ git clone https://github.com/fmount/camimporter /path/to/clone

$ cd /path/to/clone

$ make install  //It can also install all the required dependencies

How it works

This package provides a cli to run the import:

    usage camimporter -c config -i ingress_path -o egress_path -d depth -r path_retry

    Options:
      -h, --help  show this help message and exit
      -i INGRESS  path dir that contains a picture list to import
      -o EGRESS   path dir in which all imported pictures are placed
      -d DEPTH    type of grouping /by day - by month - by year
      -r RETRY    where store all failed import transactions
      -v          Print all statement during the algorithm execution
      -c CONFIG   config file to load all default config parameters.  Example file
                  can be found /usr/lib/python2.7/site-
                  packages/camimporter/config/parameters.json

Note that if you don't install the package, you can simply clone the repo, go inside the /path/to/clone/camimporter and launch the same command in this way:

$ python cli.py -c config -i ingress_path -o egress_path -d depth -r path_retry

License

It is distruibuted according to the MIT License