Digikam is a great DAM (Digital Asset Management) application and image editor. This script adds some non-gui (= cron capable) batch export features to Digikam.
digikam-select is a Ruby application and so needs a Ruby interpreter. (v2.2 will do fine) In addition, the following Ruby gems are required.
require 'progressbar' # required for eye candy during conversion
require 'fileutils' # required to move and link files around
require 'sqlite3' # required to access iPhoto database
require 'optparse' # required to parse options
require 'pp'
They can be installed using these commands e.g. on Ubuntu 16.04:
$ sudo apt-get install ruby2.2 ruby2.2-dev libsqlite3-dev
$ sudo gem2.2 install sqlite3 progressbar
But any newer Ruby version should also do if already installed.
$ ruby digikam-select.rb --help
Usage: digikam-select.rb [options]
-v, --verbose Show detailed progress while working
-q, --quiet Show no output while working
--interactive Ask before overwriting or deleting files
-d, --dry-run Pretend mode. Do not write any files.
-i, --input=DBFILE Set input Digikam database (digikam4.db)
-o, --output=DIR Set output directory
--no-albums Do not create album folders (default: yes)
-m, --mode=MODE Transfer mode (*copy*/link/symlink/convert)
-c, --compress=OPTS Process images using imageMagick 'convert'
Example: '-quality 80 -geometry 1920x1080'.
Will set '--mode=convert' and skip non-JPG
files. Requires 'convert' binary in PATH.
-f, --force Force overwriting existing images in target
folder structure (default: skip)
-t, --tags=x,y,z Match images with any listed tag (exact
string match). Hierarchical tags are
not supported yet (flat name only).
-r, --minrating=N Match images with at least N stars
-a, --album=STR Match albums matching this (sub)string
All matches are concatenated using 'AND'.
-h, --help Show this message
--version Show version number
Export all images with rating 3 or better:
$ ruby digikam-export.rb -i ~/Pictures/digikam4.db -o ~/image_export -r3
Export all images tagged "Funny" or "Sad":
$ ruby digikam-export.rb -i ~/Pictures/digikam4.db -o ~/image_export -t Funny,Sad
Export all images in Albums matching "Tour":
$ ruby digikam-export.rb -i ~/Pictures/digikam4.db -o ~/image_export -a Tour
Export, and convert to 50% dimensions:
$ ruby digikam-export.rb -i ~/Pictures/digikam4.db -o ~/image_export -c "-geometry 50%"
The license of this script is GPL3 as of now. If this causes problems with your intended usage please contact me.
Contact me at [email protected] or via Github.