Media sorter

Media sorter sorts media files (only JPG images with EXIF data, for now) by extracting information from the files and make a directory structure with symbolic links based on the information.

At the moment, only location is used for sorting. This, of course, requires that the EXIF contains GPS information.

Usage

$ media_sorter <input directory> <output directory>

Where input is the directory containing unsorted images. No subdirectories are visited.

Output is where the directory structure and the symbolic links will be created.

Example

You have a directory looking like this:

$ ls /home/lanker/all_photos
...
DSC_2210.JPG
DSC_2211.JPG
DSC_2212.JPG
DSC_2213.JPG
DSC_2214.JPG
DSC_2215.JPG
DSC_2216.JPG
DSC_2217.JPG
DSC_2218.JPG
DSC_2219.JPG
DSC_2220.JPG
DSC_2221.JPG
DSC_2222.JPG
DSC_2223.JPG
DSC_2224.JPG
DSC_2225.JPG
DSC_2226.JPG
DSC_2227.JPG
DSC_2228.JPG
DSC_2229.JPG
DSC_2230.JPG
DSC_2231.JPG
DSC_2232.JPG
DSC_2233.JPG
DSC_2234.JPG
DSC_2235.JPG
DSC_2236.JPG
DSC_2237.JPG
DSC_2238.JPG
DSC_2239.JPG
...

I.e., no sorting…

You run:

$ media_sorter /home/lanker/all_photos/ out/

Which generates this:

$ tree out
.
├── SE
│   ├── Skane
│   │   ├── Lund
│   │   │   └── DSC_2121.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2121.JPG
│   │   └── Beddingestrand
│   │       ├── DSC_2110.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2110.JPG
│   │       ├── DSC_2111.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2111.JPG
│   │       ├── DSC_2112.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2112.JPG
│   │       ├── DSC_2113.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2113.JPG
│   │       ├── DSC_2114.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2114.JPG
│   │       ├── DSC_2115.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2115.JPG
│   │       ├── DSC_2116.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2116.JPG
│   │       ├── DSC_2117.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2117.JPG
│   │       ├── DSC_2118.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2118.JPG
│   │       └── DSC_2119.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2119.JPG
│   └── Stockholm
│       └── Stockholm
│           ├── DSC_2122.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2122.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2123.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2123.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2124.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2124.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2125.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2125.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2126.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2126.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2127.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2127.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2129.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2129.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2130.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2130.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2133.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2133.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2134.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2134.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2135.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2135.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2136.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2136.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2137.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2137.JPG
│           ├── DSC_2138.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2138.JPG
│           └── DSC_2139.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2139.JPG
└── unknown_location
    ├── DSC_2120.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2120.JPG
    ├── DSC_2128.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2128.JPG
    ├── DSC_2131.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2131.JPG
    └── DSC_2132.JPG -> /home/lanker/all_photos/DSC_2132.JPG

Building

$ cargo build --release

Credits

Uses https://github.com/gx0r/rrgeo for offline reverse geocoding.

License

GNU General Public License v3 (GPL-3)