New osxphotos import command

[RhetTbull]

I've added a new import command to osxphotos in v0.51.0 so it can be used to import photos and videos into Photos. It uses the same template system that export uses so you can use a template to specify the album(s), the metadata, etc.

For example:

Import files into Photos and add to album named for month of the year in folder named for the 4-digit year of
the file creation date:

osxphotos import /Volumes/photos/*.jpg --album "{created.year}/{created.month}" --split-folder "/"

Import files and use the parent folder as the album:

osxphotos import /Volumes/photos/Madrid/*.jpg --album "{filepath.parent.name}"

adds all photos to the album "Madrid" (the name of the file's parent folder).

import photos and use exiftool to set metadata from the imported file

osxphotos import /Volumes/photos/* --exiftool

Import all photos in /Volumes/Photos and all subdirectories, use the filepath of the imported photo to automatically create folders and albums (but exclude the parent folder of /Volumes/Photos from the imported filepath:

osxphotos import /Volumes/Photos/* --walk --album "{filepath}" --relative-to "/Volumes/Photos" --split-folders "/"

Use osxphotos help import

[dalisoft]

@RhetTbull Thank you for nice feature, but for it's does not work, i don't know why.

There log

/Volumes/Photos 
❯ osxphotos import "$PWD/Photos/*" \
      --exiftool \
      --dup-check \
      --merge-keywords
Importing 0 files ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   0% -:--:--
Done: imported 0 files, 0 errors, 
/Volumes/Photos 
❯ ls Photos | wc -l
   10217
/Volumes/Photos 
❯ 

[RhetTbull]

@dalisoft your command line is wrong. Wildcards do not get expanded inside quotes though environment variables do so "$PWD/Photos/*" becomes "/Volumes/Photos/*" and osxphotos finds no photos with the literal name *. Try the command without the quotes:

osxphotos import $PWD/Photos/* \
      --exiftool \
      --dup-check \
      --merge-keywords

[dalisoft]

@RhetTbull Thank you, yes it worked. Before such scripts worked but this time it's something new for me (bash scripting)