For anyone else out there finding this, if you take the code and modify it or put it somewhere else public, let me know. If I do such a thing, I too will let you know.
First off, all I wanted was a way to find images for Throwback Thursday and I have a very messy folder called Pictures and in there my photos go back to 2003, November.
Some are older, but their modification/creation dates on my computer will not reflect their true date/time so this tool will be useless for those. Unless I modify it later, for example, I can think of an improvement. . . if date modified content does not match date in name of file (parse the name of the file) then use the name as the date.
[update] I am not sure how to make this better. It is definitely not 100% accurate. For example, today, some of the 10 images I've pulled up were created on 9/6/2012 (Thursday) BUT they were created for a web-site by a script I used in the past. By pure coincidence, it also happens to be originally taken on Thursday, July 19, 2012... so, here it is :).
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| Angel Island, Thursday, July 19, 2012 |
The code is currently below. I also put it on Siafoo.
================================= usage:
Mac OS X Terminal with python3 and python installed. This python3 is 3.4.
Show in Mac Preview app 10 files of png or jpg found in /foo/bar directory:
python3 tbt.py /foo/bar/ -n 10 -m
List all files in /foo/bar directory:
python3 tbt.py -l /foo/bar
List all options with -h:
unknown68a86d404130:play michaelcase$ python3 tbt.py -h
usage: tbt.py [-h] [-d D] [-l] [-m] [-mw] [-n N] directory
Program for "Throwback Thursdays" allows users to specify day of week to find,
defaults to Thursday, and provides a list of files of jpg and png within the directory you
specify that occurred on that day of week. However, precedence goes mw, m then
l. In other words, ONLY ONE of those flags will be supported, if you specify
more than one, the precedence is enforced.
positional arguments:
directory Required. Directory from which to read files.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d D Optional. Day of week. Defaults to Thursday. Can not do multiple
days.
-l Optional. Reply with list of files that can be passed to
something like xargs.
-m Optional. Mac OS open Preview App with resulting list of files.
If the list of files gets too long, the command may fail.
-mw Optional. Mac OS open Preview App with one image per window. Can
be torture to your screen, be careful.
-n N Optional. Number of files to *randomly* retreive from list.
(Revision 1.0 of 2015-12-14 14:15:28)
================================= code, cut here to end. put in file tyt.py
# use os.path.getctime to get creation date/time. # use date.weekday() to get 0 = Monday to 6 = Sunday. # then use present Thursdays as tbt files :) # ctime - the last time the file's inode was changed (e.g. permissions changed, file renamed, etc..) # mtime - last time the file's CONTENTS were changed # atime - last time the file was accessed. # author: Michael E. Case, mec at dcn dot davis dot ca dot us
import sys
import os
from datetime import *
import time
from sys import argv
#from subprocess import Popen
import argparse
import random
# 2015-12-14:
# Given a path, search through it and all it's subdirectories for "throwback thursday" files.
# info to identify program and current revision, and some globals.
global pgm, rev, date
pgm = (sys.argv[0]).replace('./','')
rev = '$Revision: 1.0 $'.replace('$','')[9:].strip()
date = '$Date: 2015-12-14 14:15:28 $'.replace('$','')[5:].strip()
def isint( s ):
try:
int(s)
except ValueError:
return False
else:
return True
def tbt_main():
#read command arguments
global pgm, rev, date
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog=pgm, epilog="(Revision "+rev+" of "+date+")", description="""Program for \"Throwback Thursdays\"
allows users to specify day of week to find, defaults to Thursday, and provides a list of files of jpg and png within the directory
you specify that occurred on that day of week. However, precedence goes mw, m then l. In other words, ONLY ONE of
those flags will be supported, if you specify more than one, the precedence is enforced.""")
ap.add_argument("directory", help="Required. Directory from which to read files.")
ap.add_argument("-d", help="Optional. Day of week. Defaults to Thursday. Can not do multiple days.", default="3")
ap.add_argument("-l", help="Optional. Reply with list of files that can be passed to something like xargs.", action="store_true", default=False)
ap.add_argument("-m", help="Optional. Mac OS open Preview App with resulting list of files. If the list of files gets too long, the command may fail.", action="store_true", default=False)
ap.add_argument("-mw", help="Optional. Mac OS open Preview App with one image per window. Can be torture to your screen, be careful.", action="store_true", default=False)
ap.add_argument("-n", help="Optional. Number of files to *randomly* retreive from list.", default=-1, type=int)
newargs = ap.parse_args()
#print(newargs)
#if ()
listfiles = newargs.l
indir = newargs.directory
nf = newargs.n
macprev = newargs.m
macprevwin = newargs.mw
dow = 3
if isint(newargs.d) == False:
lcd = newargs.d.lower()
if "monday" in lcd:
dow = 0
elif "tuesday" in lcd:
dow = 1
elif "wednesday" in lcd:
dow = 2
elif "thursday" in lcd:
dow = 3
elif "friday" in lcd:
dow = 4
elif "saturday" in lcd:
dow = 5
elif "sunday" in lcd:
dow = 6
else:
print(newargs.d+" not found in day of week. Day of week will default to Thursday (3).")
dow = 3
else:
if dow > 6:
print(newargs.d+" is greater than 6. Day of week will default to Thursday (3).")
dow = 3
if macprev == True and macprevwin == True and listfiles == True:
macprev = False
listfiles = False
print("Found -mw, -w and -l, precedence dictates using mw.")
if macprev == True and listfiles == True:
listfiles = False
print("Found -w and -l, precedence ditates using -m.")
if macprevwin == True and listfiles == True:
listfiles = False
print("Found -mw and -l, precedence dictates using -mw.")
# print(macprev, str(nf), indir, listfiles)
# print(indir)
fs = ""
fsofar = 0
randomfs = False
if nf != -1:
randomfs = True
nfilestot = 0
# probtofind = 0
rindstosave = []
# can't figure out how to do this using "probability of this picture being one of the n you requested."
# or rather, that solution did not always give me n. So the new solution is come up with n integers between
# one and nfilestot. Those will be the ones we get. No repeats, of course.
if randomfs == True:
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(indir, topdown=True):
#print("in first for")
for name in files:
tm = os.path.getmtime(os.path.join(root,name))
dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(tm)
if dt.weekday() == dow:
if len(name.split(".")) > 1:
spl = name.split(".")
last = spl[len(spl)-1]
if last.lower() == "jpg" or last.lower() == "png":
nfilestot +=1
#print("total number of all jpg and png = "+str(nfilestot))
if nfilestot > 0:
nsel = 0
while nsel < nf and nf > 0:
rn = random.randint(1, nfilestot) # [1, nfilestot]
if rn not in rindstosave:
rindstosave.append(rn)
nsel += 1
# print ("nsel = "+str(nsel))
# print (rindstosave)
rindstosave.sort()
# print (rindstosave)
# probtofind = nf / nfilestot
fc = 0
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(indir, topdown=True):
#print("in first for")
for name in files:
#print("in second for")
tm = os.path.getmtime(os.path.join(root,name))
dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(tm)
if dt.weekday() == dow:
if len(name.split(".")) > 1:
spl = name.split(".")
last = spl[len(spl)-1]
if last.lower() == "jpg" or last.lower() == "png":
fc += 1
#print("found jpg")
#os.system
#Popen
if macprev == True:
#print (fs)
if randomfs == False:
fs += "\""+os.path.join(root,name)+"\" "
else:
if fc in rindstosave:
fs += "\""+os.path.join(root,name)+"\" "
rindstosave = rindstosave[1:]
if macprevwin == True:
if randomfs == False:
os.system("open -a /Applications/Preview.app "+"\""+os.path.join(root,name)+"\"")
else:
if fc in rindstosave:
os.system("open -a /Applications/Preview.app "+"\""+os.path.join(root,name)+"\"")
rindstosave = rindstosave[1:]
if listfiles == True:
if randomfs == False:
print("\""+os.path.join(root,name)+"\"")
else:
if fc in rindstosave:
print("\""+os.path.join(root,name)+"\"")
rindstosave = rindstosave[1:]
#
# print(os.path.join(root,name))
# call("open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app", os.path.join(root,name))
if macprev == True:
#print ("open -a /Applications/Preview.app "+fs)
os.system("open -a /Applications/Preview.app "+fs)
if __name__ == "__main__":
tbt_main()
