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How do I rename photos based on their shotwell titles?

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I recently gave ~200 photos numerical titles in Shotwell which describe their sequences--001, 002, etc. But I'd like for this sequence to be the same in the filenames, too, so that when I open the folder in Nautilus the photos are listed in order. I think Shotwell saved the title in the exif data somewhere. In fact, I finally found it using the Gnome image viewer, under XMP Other and photoshop:Headline. What I'd like is a way to read these Shotwell titles and have those used as the filenames. I could probably do this with Python if I knew how to access that metadata.

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answered 2 Years ago landarre · Accepted Answer

I did a apt-cache search exif, and found (among other packages):

exiv2 - EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation tool  

bins - Generate static HTML photo albums using XML and EXIF tags  

exif - command-line utility to show EXIF information in JPEG files  

exifprobe - Read metadata from digital pictures  

exiftags - utility to read Exif tags from a digital camera JPEG file  

jigl - Generates a static html photo gallery from one or more directories of images  

libexif-ruby1.9.1 - EXIF tag parsing Library for ruby1.9.1  

libimage-exif-perl - Perl module to extract EXIF information from image files  

libimage-exiftool-perl - Library and program to read and write meta information in multimedia files  

libimage-info-perl - allows extraction of meta information from image files  

metacam - extract EXIF information from digital camera files  

pyrenamer - mass file renamer written in PyGTK  

python-exif - Python library to extract EXIF data from tiff and jpeg files  

renrot - Rename and rotate files according to EXIF tags

So try pyrenamer. If you can't make it do what you like, you might build your own tool with python-exif