[digiKam-users] Help with scripts

[David Griffiths]

Thanks Peter.

I am migrating from Picasa so I would be very interested in your script to capture 
the captions if you are willing to share. I am not using sidecab files but I will 
investigate.

Cheers,
DG


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:

        

        Another possibilty would to have the display of the Album as an option on the 
        Slidehow plugin ;-) (wishlist)

        TIA,
        DG

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        David Griffiths
        Kurrajong (Sydney), Australia
        http://www.digitalgraphics.com.au

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David Griffiths
Kurrajong (Sydney), Australia
http://www.digitalgraphics.com.au
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