Photo Library Tools

For a demo, visit rnpix.github.io.

The photo library is organized into "day" directories of the form YYYY/MM-DD/*.{jpg,mov,...}. In each day directory, index.txt contains:

foo.jpg Some description for foo on one line
bar.mov A movie of something

The file may have comments with a # starting on the first character. (Historical version allows a : after the image name.)

The tools search YY/MM-DD directories to create index.txt and uses it to create a searchable, static HTML tree:

1. identify appends to index.txt from the images in a day directory, prompting the user for each unidentified image.
2. generate reads index.txt to create index.html and thumbnail directories 50 (pixel) and 200, which are referenced in index.html
3. indexer reads index.txt to create rnpix-index.js, which is read by rnindex to find images by their description.
4. fix reads index.txt and images in directory, and verifies and fixes the format.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the excellent js-search by Carsten Brandt. It was first transliterated from the PHP to Python, and then rewritten to match the picture indexing problem, which was significantly different from the general HTML problem js-search solves. I wouldn't have gotten the idea of how to implement a search engine in Javascript without Carsten's project.

The rest of the code is all mine and evolved over a couple of decades from a collection of simple Perl programs to be transformed this year to Python.

License

License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

Copyright (c) 2016 Robert Nagler. All Rights Reserved.