Photo management script. This script will copy photos from "~/Pictures/iPhone Incoming" into a tree the script creates, with folders representing month and years, and photo names timestamped. Completely based on the work of the amazing Dr. Drang; see here: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/10/photo-management-via-the-finder/You can see more …

organize-photos.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import os, shutil
import subprocess
import os.path
from datetime import datetime

######################## Functions #########################

def photoDate(f):
  "Return the date/time on which the given photo was taken."

  cDate = subprocess.check_output(['sips', '-g', 'creation', f])
  cDate = cDate.split('\n')[1].lstrip().split(': ')[1]
  return datetime.strptime(cDate, "%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S")


###################### Main program ########################

# Where the photos are and where they're going.
destDir = '/Volumes/Photos'
sourceDir = destDir + '/Queue'
errorDir = destDir + '/Unsorted'

# The format for the new file names.
fmt = "%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S-"

# The problem files.
problems = []

# Get all the photos in the source folder.
photos = os.listdir(sourceDir)
photos = [ x for x in photos if x[-4:] == '.jpg' or x[-4:] == '.JPG' or x[-4:] == '.cr2' or x[-4:] == '.CR2']

# Prepare to output as processing occurs
lastMonth = 0
lastYear = 0

# Create the destination folder if necessary
if not os.path.exists(destDir):
  os.makedirs(destDir)
if not os.path.exists(errorDir):
  os.makedirs(errorDir)

# Copy photos into year and month subfolders. Name the copies according to
# their timestamps and the origional filename.
for photo in photos:
  # print "Processing %s..." % photo
  original = sourceDir + '/' + photo
  try:
    pDate = photoDate(original)
    yr = pDate.year
    mo = pDate.month

    if not lastYear == yr or not lastMonth == mo:
      sys.stdout.write('\nProcessing %04d-%02d...' % (yr, mo))
      lastMonth = mo
      lastYear = yr
    else:
      sys.stdout.write('.')
    
    newname = pDate.strftime(fmt) + photo
    thisDestDir = destDir + '/%04d/%02d' % (yr, mo)
    if not os.path.exists(thisDestDir):
      os.makedirs(thisDestDir)

    duplicate = thisDestDir + '/%s' % (newname)
    shutil.copy2(original, duplicate)
  except Exception:
    shutil.copy2(original, errorDir + photo)
    problems.append(photo)
  except:
    sys.exit("Execution stopped.")

# Report the problem files, if any.
if len(problems) > 0:
  print "\nProblem files:"
  print "\n".join(problems)
  print "These can be found in: %s" % errorDir