;;; el-exiftool.el --- Elisp wrapper around ExifTool -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; Elisp wrapper around ExifTool ;; Copyright (C) 2017 by Arun I ;; ;; Author: Arun I ;; Version: 0.1 ;; Keywords: data ;; Homepage: https://git.systemreboot.net/el-exiftool ;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "25")) ;; This file is part of el-exiftool. ;; el-exiftool is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or ;; (at your option) any later version. ;; el-exiftool is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with el-exiftool. If not, see . ;;; Commentary: ;; ;; el-exiftool is an elisp wrapper around ExifTool. ExifTool supports ;; reading and writing metadata in various formats including EXIF, XMP ;; and IPTC. ;; ;; There is a significant overhead in loading ExifTool for every ;; command to be exected. So, el-exiftool starts an ExifTool process ;; in the -stay_open mode, and passes all commands to it. For more ;; about ExifTool's -stay_open mode, see ;; http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#performance ;;; Code: (require 'subr-x) (require 'cl) (defun el-exiftool--tq-sync-query (tq question regexp) "Add a transaction to transaction queue TQ, block and read response. See `tq-enqueue' for details of arguments QUESTION and REGEXP." (let ((response)) (tq-enqueue tq question regexp nil (lambda (closure answer) (setq response answer))) (while (not response) (accept-process-output)) response)) (defun el-exiftool-run () "Start an exiftool process if one is not already running. If an exiftool process is already running, delete it, and create a new one. Return the process object of the newly created process." (when-let (exiftool (get-process "exiftool")) (delete-process exiftool)) (start-process "exiftool" "exiftool" "exiftool" "-stay_open" "True" "-@" "-")) (let ((tq (tq-create (el-exiftool-run)))) (defun el-exiftool-command (&rest args) "Execute a command in the currently running exiftool process. ARGS are arguments of the command to be run, as provided to the exiftool command line application." (string-trim (let ((suffix "{ready}\n")) (string-remove-suffix suffix (el-exiftool--tq-sync-query tq (concat (string-join args "\n") "\n-execute\n") suffix)))))) (defun el-exiftool-read (file &rest tags) "Read TAGS from FILE, return an alist mapping TAGS to values. If a tag is not found, return an empty string \"\" as the value. If no TAGS are specified, read all tags from FILE. \(fn FILE TAG...)" (mapcar (lambda (line) (cl-destructuring-bind (tag value) (split-string line ": ") (let ((value (if (equal value "-") "" value))) (cons tag value)))) (split-string (apply 'el-exiftool-command "-s" "-s" "-f" (append (mapcar (apply-partially 'format "-%s") tags) (list file))) "\n+"))) (defun el-exiftool-copy (source destination &rest tags) "Copy TAGS from SOURCE file to DESTINATION file. If no TAGS are specified, copy all tags from SOURCE." (apply 'el-exiftool-command "-overwrite_original" "-tagsFromFile" source (append (mapcar (apply-partially 'format "-%s") tags) (list "-all:all" destination))) (message "Tags from %s copied to %s" source destination) destination) (defun el-exiftool-write (file &rest tag-value-alist) "Write tags to FILE. The metadata to be written is specified as (TAG . VALUE) pairs. Specifying the empty string \"\" for VALUE deletes that TAG. \(fn FILE (TAG . VALUE)...)" (apply 'el-exiftool-command "-m" "-overwrite_original" (append (mapcar (cl-function (lambda ((tag . value)) (format "-%s=%s" tag value))) tag-value-alist) (list file)))) (provide 'el-exiftool) ;;; el-exiftool.el ends here