Installation

Getting PyExifTool

PyPI

Easiest: Install a version from the official PyExifTool PyPI

python -m pip install -U pyexiftool

From Source

Check out the source code from the github repository
- git clone git://github.com/sylikc/pyexiftool.git
- Alternatively, you can download a tarball.
Run setup.py to install the module from source
- python setup.py install [--user|--prefix=<installation-prefix>]

PyExifTool Dependencies

Python

PyExifTool runs on Python 3.6+. (If you need Python 2.6 support, please use version v0.4.x). PyExifTool has been tested on Windows and Linux, and probably also runs on other Unix-like platforms.

Phil Harvey’s exiftool

For PyExifTool to function, exiftool command-line tool must exist on the system. If exiftool is not on the PATH, you can specify the full pathname to it by using ExifTool(executable=<full path>).

PyExifTool requires a minimum version of 12.15 (which was the first production version of exiftool featuring the options to allow exit status checks used in conjuction with -echo3 and -echo4 parameters).

To check your exiftool version:

exiftool -ver

Windows/Mac

Windows/Mac users can download the latest version of exiftool:

https://exiftool.org

Linux

Most current Linux distributions have a package which will install exiftool. Unfortunately, some do not have the minimum required version, in which case you will have to build from source.

Ubuntu

sudo apt install libimage-exiftool-perl

CentOS/RHEL
```
yum install perl-Image-ExifTool
```