extract-iptc

Simple wrapper and parser around imagemagick's convert CLI utility call to extract IPTC/XMP metadata.

Installation

npm install extract-iptc

Usage

var ExtractIptc = require('extract-iptc');
 
// if convert utility isn'n in PATH variable
ExtractIptc.setImageMagickConvertPath('/path/to/bin/convert');
 
ExtractIptc.extract('/path/to/image.jpg', function (error, meta) { 
    if (error) {
        console.error(error);
    }
    console.log('Title is: ' + meta.title);
    if (meta.keywords) {
        if (typeof meta.keywords === 'string') {
            console.log('Single keyword is: ' + meta.keywords);
        } else {
            console.log('Keywords are: ' + meta.keywords.join(', '));
        }
    }
    console.log('Copyrighted by: ' + meta.copyright);
});

Resulting meta object fields reference

NB. Returns array for any tag values with multiple occurrences.

extract-iptc	IPTC	XMP
title	Object Name	Title
urgency	Urgency	Urgency
category	Category	Category
supplementalCategory	Supplemental Category	Supplemental Categories
keywords	Keywords	Keywords
instructions	Special Instruction	Instructions
dateCreated	Date Created	Date Created
author	By-line	Author
authorsPosition	By-line Title	AuthorsPosition
city	City	City
state	Province/State	State/Province
country	Country/Primary Location Name	Country
transmissionReference	Original Transmission Reference	Transmission Reference
headline	Headline	Headline
credit	Credit	Credit
source	Source	Source
copyright	Copyright Notice	Copyright Notice
description	Caption/Abstract	Description
writer	Writer/Editor	Description Writer