📸 Geo-Data Extractor

Media Metadata Extraction Tool

Extract metadata from your photos and videos with ease! 🎯

This repository contains a bash script for extracting metadata from media files:

• 🖼️ Images: JPG, JPEG, PNG
• 🎥 Videos: MOV, MP4

✨ Features

• 📅 Extracts creation date/time
• 🌍 Extracts GPS coordinates (when available)
• 📊 Generates detailed reports in a reports directory
• ⚡ Shows processing time and statistics
• 🎯 Identifies files with valid GPS data
• 📁 Handles both images and videos in a single pass

🛠️ Dependencies

The script requires exiftool to be installed on your system.

📦 Installing Dependencies

Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install exiftool

MacOS (Homebrew)

brew install exiftool

Other Unix Systems

Visit the ExifTool website for installation instructions.

🚀 Usage

./extract_metadata.sh [input_directory]

If no input directory is specified, the current directory will be used.

📋 Output

The script will:

1. 📁 Create a reports directory if it doesn't exist
2. 📝 Generate a report file with timestamp (e.g., media_metadata_20240101_120000.txt)
3. 🌍 Include a summary of files with GPS data
4. 📊 List detailed metadata for each processed file
5. 📈 Show processing statistics

📑 Report Format

Each report includes:

• 🗺️ Files with GPS coordinates (summary)
• 📝 Detailed metadata for each file
• 🔢 Total number of files processed
• 🌍 Number of files with GPS data
• ⏱️ Processing time
• 🕒 Timestamp of report generation

💡 Notes

• ✅ The script handles errors gracefully and will notify if ExifTool is not installed
• 🌐 GPS coordinates of (0,0) are treated as invalid and marked as "Not available"
• 🔄 All reports are timestamped to prevent overwriting

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Happy metadata extracting! 🎉

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