Cleaning up Apple Photos Library with Python

[oPromessa]

Based on this blog entry Cleaning up Apple Photos Library with Python is there a way in python using import osxphotos library to add pics to an Album in a similar way as the option --add-exported-to-album "Archived Photos"does?

album = osxphotos.PhotosAlbum('Bad Photos')
album.add_list(bad_ps)

without the hack explained on the blog entry?

"Once we have it installed, we actually need to modify a single line in the library. Go to where the python library is installed, and modify the .../osxphotos/init.py file:

Add this line:

from .photosalbum import PhotosAlbum

"

[RhetTbull]

That hack is not needed. You can simply do this:

from osxphotos.photosalbum import PhotosAlbum

Now that I know people are using PhotosAlbum I'll expose it in osxphotos. It is an internal class for adding osxphotos PhotoInfo objects to an album. If you want to import photos not already in Photos into an album, take a look at photoscript which is used by PhotoAlbum. If you're using osxphotos to find specific photos as in the blog post and add those to an album, then PhotosAlbum is what you want.

[RhetTbull]

By the way, you could do what that blog post demonstrates with simply writing a query function. See this example. Assuming you save the query function as badphotos() in badphotos.py you can use it like this:

osxphotos query --query-function badphotos.py::badphotos --add-to-album "Bad Photos"

[RhetTbull]

I've added bad_photos.py to the examples folder -- this can be used as a query function to identify potentially bad photos.

[oPromessa]

Super.

For others which may want to adopt the example:

Besides the not p.screenshot I'm also considering the following filters: avoid videos; pics classified and documents (don't know if it would be the same as p.screenshot) and not hidden.

p.isphoto and not p.hidden and "Document" not in p.labels) ]

Still testing with the settings but getting the worst pics with the following criteria:

p.score.failure < -0.5,
p.score.overall < 0.1

[RhetTbull]

The label names might be localized so that might not work for everyone but you could specify it on the command line as a query eval:

--query-eval "'Document' not in photo.labels"

If you get the parameters tuned submit a PR or post the tuned parameters here so I can update the example. It makes sense that score.overall might give good results as I assume that's a weighted combination of the other scores.

[RhetTbull]

Also, you can experiment with only the command line if you're only tweaking a couple of score parameters:

osxphotos query --query-eval "photo.score.overall < 0.1" --query-eval "photo.score.failure < -0.5" --query-eval "'Document' not in photo.labels" --only-photos --not-screenshot --add-to-album "Bad Photos"