flickr/bulkr fixer

fixer.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import datetime
from dateutil.parser import parse
import os
import re
from pipes import quote
from subprocess import check_output, call

fn = sys.argv[1]
mdfn = os.path.splitext(fn)[0] + '.txt'


for line in open(mdfn,'r'):
    if re.match("^Taken.Date", line):
         # found the Taken line
         break

if "Taken" not in line:
    print("Taken date not found, aborting")
    sys.exit(0)

taken = line.rstrip()
taken = taken.replace('Taken Date   : ','')

exiftaken = (parse(taken).strftime('%Y:%m:%d %X'))
print (exiftaken)

print check_output (["exiftool", "-m", "-AllDates=\"{}\"".format(exiftaken), fn])

# fix hemisphere. this doesn't hurt if it's right.

print check_output (["exiftool", "-m", "-tagsFromFile", fn, fn])