get_media_files

Python class to return a list of local media files from a folder with metadata of the files

Requirements

• Python 3

Modules

• pymediainfo
• click

Dependencies

• MediaInfo (for pymediainfo module)

get_media_files.__main__

Description: Returns list of files with data & file path of each file in its own list sorted by creation/metadata change time (oldest to newest (ascending order)) by default

Input: path to media files

Output: list of lists each containing media info of each media file

Usage

Use as CLI app such as python -m get_media_files my_path/Pictures or use it as an API and import via from get_media_files import GetMediaFiles.

Example

Suppose I have 2 image files, test2.jpg and test3.jpg, 1 text file, and 1 folder in the following path and

run the following code:

from get_media_files import GetMediaFiles

path = '/home/j/Documents/_Github-Projects/MediaToVideo/temp-imgs'
media = GetMediaFiles(path)
info = media.get_info(path, track_types=['Image','Video'])
print(info)

printed output:

[['/home/j/Documents/_Github-Projects/MediaToVideo/temp-imgs/test2.jpg',
{'Image':
    {'duration': None, 'format': 'JPEG', 'size': (1920, 1080)}},
'Image',
1473055449.7858396],
['/home/j/Documents/_Github-Projects/MediaToVideo/temp-imgs/test3.jpg',
{'Image':
    {'duration': None, 'format': 'JPEG', 'size': (291, 1080)}},
'Image',
1473055449.921839]]