Copies photos from a folder, such as the DCIM folder of a digital camera, to a Dropbox folder, renaming the files according to their creation date in the process.

fetch_pictures_to_dropbox.py

#!/usr/bin/python2.7
#############################
## Author:   Stefan McKinnon Edwards <sme@iysik.com>
## Date:     May 2013
## Revision: 1
## Description:
##  Copies photos from a folder, such as the DCIM folder of a digital 
##  camera, to a Dropbox folder, renaming the files according to their
##  creation date in the process.
#############################
from __future__ import print_function
import os
import shutil
import argparse 
from glob import glob
import time
import sys

from Path import Path

class FileNotFoundException(Exception):
  pass

class FileAlreadyExistsException(Exception):
  pass

def copy_file(orig, destdir, fmt='%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S'):
  '''
  Copies the file `orig` to a dir (`destdir`), renaming it in the proces.
  Returns destination filename.
  '''
  orig = Path(orig)
  if not orig.exists:
    raise FileNotFoundException(orig)

  newname = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S', time.gmtime(orig.ctime))  
  dest = destdir.append(newname+'.'+orig.ext)
  if dest.exists:
    raise FileAlreadyExistsException(dest)

  shutil.copy(orig, dest)
  return dest


def main(source, destdir):
  print('Copying from {} to {}.'.format(source.abspath, destdir.abspath))

  files = (f for f in glob(source.append('*')) if f.endswith('.jpg') or f.endswith('.JPG') or f.endswith('.AVI'))
  for f in files:
    try:
      dest = copy_file(f, destdir)
    except FileNotFoundException:
      print('{} suddenly disappeared?'.format(f))
    except FileAlreadyExistsException as e:
      print('File {} already found as {}.'.format(f, e.message))
    except Exception as e:
      print('Other error:', e)     
      raise
    else:
      print('Copied {} to {}.'.format(f, dest))
     
  
  return 0
description = '''Copies photos from a folder, such as the DCIM folder of a digital 
camera, to a Dropbox folder, renaming the files according to their 
creation date in the process.'''
dropbox = Path('/home/stefan/Dropbox/Camera Uploads')

if __name__ == '__main__':
  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description)

  
  parser.add_argument('sourcedir', nargs='?', default='.', help='Directory to copy from.', type=Path)  

  parser.add_argument('-d','--destdir',dest='destdir', default=dropbox, type=Path, help='Destination directory. Must exist.')
 

  args = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
  #print(args.sourcedir.abspath)
  #print(sys.argv, args)
  st = main(args.sourcedir, args.destdir)
  sys.exit(st)