[digiKam-users] Help with scripts

[Peter Teuben]

David

     I  used to have albums from Picasa, and each album had a little 
descriptor file, so I wind up writing a python script that looked for 
that file and stuffed it into the appropriate field of the digikam4.db 
file. But this only covers the album caption. not each photo. Since I 
store them inside the JPG, they carried over easily :-)

My script can  be easily modified to use this album title in the 
tag/.... of each image in that album, I've not tried that, but looking 
at the code, this is straightforward.

If you use the sidecab files (which i don't), it might even be easier, 
since you an create those files with python quite easily. Here's a page 
that might help you getting started https://www.fastrawviewer.com/node/646

this way you don't need to play with the db file, but for each JPG you 
create a JPG.xmp file.

peter

On 6/2/20 10:50 PM, David Griffiths wrote:
> I need to write a script and I am not sure how to go about it.
>
> What I want to achieve is to set the Title of hundreds (thousands) of 
> photos to be the folder or album that they are in. So for example, I 
> have folders called 'Holiday 2017', 'Holiday Great Barrier Reef', 
> 'Birthday Party 2015' etc and I want these names in the image Title 
> tag so I can display them during a slideshow.
>
> Can I do this within digiKam or do I need an external script?
>
>  I am using Windows 10.
>
> Example, showing Title and two Face tags:
>
> graphic
>
> Another possibilty would to have the display of the Album as an option 
> on the Slidehow plugin ;-) (wishlist)
>
> TIA,
> DG
>
> -------------------------------------------
> David Griffiths
> Kurrajong (Sydney), Australia
> http://www.digitalgraphics.com.au
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