[Digikam-devel] [Bug 109820] New: Offer: Utility script to export tag information of images into the filesystem

[krienke at uni-koblenz.de]

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           Summary: Offer: Utility script to export tag information of
                    images into the filesystem
           Product: digikam
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: krienke uni-koblenz de


Version:           0.8.0 (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)
Compiler:          gcc 3.3.5 
OS:                Linux

I am using digikam for management of my digital photos. One thing I was missing was to export virtual folders i.e. images that share the same tags to the filesystem so that other applications (like JAlbum) can access such a virtual folder. 

Since I did not find a way in digikam to this, I wrote a small perl script that opens the digikam.db file and extracts all images that have been tagged. 
It then creates a subfolder for each tag name found and then places symbolic links to the original images inside these folders for the images with this 
tag. The script depends on the sqlite application to access the database. 

The script (vers 1.1) currently works with digikam 0.7x and 0.8.0 you only have to set the correct sqlite executable version (sqlite2, sqlite3)in the scripts head.

The script can be downloaded from 
http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/ftp/unix/digikam/

I would happily provide this script for inclusion into digikam if you think that this would be a goog idea.