New feature: --filter-input

[rprieto]

What about the idea of an input filter? Only the files that pass the filter would be processed and resized, and appear in the galleries. It could be a new CLI argument, parsed with https://www.npmjs.com/package/safe-eval:

--filter-input "file => file.meta.favourite === true"

Or maybe passing the path to a Node.js module:

--filter-input-path ~/filter.js

And the filter script can look like:

// filter.js
module.exports = (file) => {

  // based on the file path
  return file.path.match(/holidays/)
  
  // or based on metadata
  return file.meta.favourite === true
  return file.meta.rating > 4
  return file.meta.keywords.include('holidays')

}

[rprieto]

Cleaning up the issues, will re-open if this becomes a priority.

[seanakabry]

Is include() a typo? Should it be includes()?

(Just in case this saves Javascript novices like me a bit of time!)

[rprieto]

Hi. Yes you’re right the correct array syntax is .includes().

However this issue was a feature idea, which is not yet implemented.

For now you can’t filter the input, but you can create custom albums like --albums-from "file://mapper.js".