Can output formats be specified using exiftool.ExifToolHelper()?

[abetomas]

Can output formats be specified using exiftool.ExifToolHelper()? I tried the formatting date for CreateDate and it did not work.

• the tagname was returned together with a groupname.
• I wanted to get the actual value of the TAG using get_tags() but the returned values included sourcefile and groupname:tagname.

• I previously used the older version of pyexiftool >> xx.get_tag('CreateDate', FileName) << will return only value of CreateDate without sourcefile and tagnames.

  import exiftool

  with exiftool.ExifToolHelper() as et: ... md=et.get_tags('./misc/20190105_153439.mp4','CreateDate',['-r','-s','-d','%Y-%m-%d']) ... print(md) ... [{'SourceFile': './misc/20190105_153439.mp4', 'QuickTime:CreateDate': '2019:01:21 22:08:12'}]

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Note: using exiftool.ExifTool() applies the date format specified in the common_args list and tagname does not contain groupname.

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import exiftool

with exiftool.ExifTool(common_args= ['-r','-s','-d','%Y-%m-%d','-CreateDate']) as et: ... md = et.execute_json("./misc/20190105_153439.mp4") ... print(md) [{'SourceFile': './misc/20190105_153439.mp4', 'CreateDate': '2019-01-21'}]

Thanks again for your help.

[sylikc]

I just pushed out a new release. ExifToolHelper.get_tags() isn't the same as the original get_tag() functionality. I had currently left that functionality in ExifToolAlpha because it can cause some inadvertent behavior.

In v0.4, try doing something like ExifTool.get_tag("*.mp4", "CreateDate") and wonder which is related to which file to get a sense of the problem...

So the functionality you're looking for is ExifToolAlpha.get_tag() . Try that

[abetomas]

Thanks.. I was able to figure this out after a further reading of the documentation. The following worked ok for me:

with exiftool.ExifToolHelper(common_args=['-s',b'-d',b'"%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S%z"']) as et:
    metadata = et.get_tags(source_filepath,'CreateDate')