PyExifTool – Python wrapper for Phil Harvey’s ExifTool

PyExifTool is a Python library to communicate with an instance of Phil Harvey’s ExifTool command-line application.

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Concepts
  • Nomenclature
• Package Overview
  • Design
  • Fork Origins / Brief History
  • License
• Installation
  • Getting PyExifTool
  • PyExifTool Dependencies
• Examples / Quick Start
  • Understanding input and output from PyExifTool base methods
  • ExifToolHelper
  • ExifTool
• Class exiftool.ExifTool
  • __init__()
  • block_size
  • common_args
  • config_file
  • encoding
  • executable
  • execute()
  • execute_json()
  • last_status
  • last_stderr
  • last_stdout
  • logger
  • run()
  • running
  • set_json_loads()
  • terminate()
  • version
• Class exiftool.ExifToolHelper
  • __init__()
  • auto_start
  • check_execute
  • check_tag_names
  • execute()
  • get_metadata()
  • get_tags()
  • run()
  • set_tags()
  • terminate()
• Class exiftool.ExifToolAlpha
  • copy_tags()
  • execute_json_wrapper()
  • get_metadata_batch_wrapper()
  • get_metadata_wrapper()
  • get_tag()
  • get_tag_batch()
  • get_tag_batch_wrapper()
  • get_tag_wrapper()
  • get_tags_batch_wrapper()
  • get_tags_wrapper()
  • set_keywords()
  • set_keywords_batch()
• FAQ
  • PyExifTool output is different from the exiftool command line
  • I can run this on the command-line but it doesn’t work in PyExifTool
  • PyExifTool json turns some text fields into numbers
  • I would like to use a faster json string parser
  • I’m getting an error! How do I debug PyExifTool output?
• API Reference
  • exiftool
• Source code on GitHub

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page