sort-media

Perl script to sync images & videos from Dropbox, extract the date of creation, and rename the media file in a centralized location.

It uses rclone to synchronize the files from the Camera Uploads folder in a Dropbox account.

It is designed to operate under the constraints of a resource-limited NAS, where only Perl is available by default.

The program tries a variety of create-date tags in a specific order, falling back to the last modification date of the file if none of the others are found.

Each copied file is named according to this pattern: ${copy-destination}/yyyy-MM-DD/yyyyMMDDTHHmmss_nn.typ

(nn is a serial number that is there to avoid duplicate name clashes. See here for details).

Setup

Before this can be used, rclone must be authorized to work with a Dropbox account:

$ rclone config

Usage

To run the script execute it with the name of the account configured above:

$ ./sbin/sync-photos.pl ebridges

Configuration

Managed in file etc/config.ini
Configuration Parameters

logging-config: Location of log4perl configuration file.
local-directory: Location where remote files will be sync'd to.
remote-directory: Remote location where files will be sync'd from.
copy-image-destination: Location where images are copied to.
copy-video-destination: Location where videos are copied to.
includes-file: Filename extensions of files that should be copied from the remote-directory.
rclone-bath: Path (either relative or absolute> to the `rclone` binary.
remove-remote-files: Remove remote files after successfully processing
purge-local-dir: Clean up local sync dir after running.

Environment

Specified in file profile
Variables

PERL5LIB: Specifies where the scripts modules are.
PATH: Appends the bin folder to the executable path.
IMGSORTER_ENV: Specifies the section of the config to pull from -- either `DEVELOPMENT` (default if absent) or `PRODUCTION`

To Do

Add support for copying videos that have an associated THM metadata file.
Remove functionality here which adjusts photos taken during an extended period of time where our camera had the wrong date.

ebridges / sort-media