media-organizer

CLI program for organizing your media files by dates from metadata when applicable or by created file date.

Installation

To make use of exiftool you will need to download and install the appropriate exiftool package for your system. Also you must have node and npm installed.

Mac OS X:

sudo brew update
sudo brew install exiftool

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl

For other systems or for information on how to compile exiftool from source refer to the official documentation for exiftool.

You also can use this app without exiftool if file creation date works for you.

npm i -g media-organizer

Usage

media-organizer location destination

And you will get folders structure:

tree destination
destination
├── 2016-06-08
│   └── IMG_0005.MOV
├── 2016-12-19
│   └── IMG_0003.MOV
├── 2018-12-25
│   └── MVI_8850.MOV
└── 2019-01-02
    └── GH010108.MP4