Script to Organize Dropbox’s Camera Upload folder

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Dropbox has a great feature called Camera Upload, where you can automatically upload pictures from your phone, making life for lazy people like me easier. The problem is that I take so many pictures with my phone that the folder ends up with a huge amount of files, making the task of browsing and viewing them slow and annoying.

To fix this problem, I created a python script that will automatically organize pictures inside folders Year > Month.

How to use: #

In order to use the script, put the file organize.py inside the ‘Camera Upload’ folder and run it from the terminal:

python organize.py

Enjoy!

Code: #

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#	Script to organize pictures uploaded from Mobile Devices to Dropbox's Camera Upload folder
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#	Daniel Spillere Andrade - www.danielandrade.net
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import os, time
import glob

#Define Pictures Folder
#You may have to change this!
folder = '/Users/admin/Dropbox/Camera Uploads/'

fileFormats = ['JPG','jpg', 'MOV', 'mov', 'PNG', 'png', 'mp4', 'MP4'];
months = ['January','February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
picPath = []

#Generate list of files
for formats in fileFormats:
	picPath = picPath + glob.glob(folder + "*."+formats)

for files in picPath:
	picName = files.split('/')
	filename = picName[-1][:-4].split(' ')
	date = filename[0].split('-')
	hour = filename[1]

	dateYear = date[0]
	dateMonth = date[1]
	dateDay = date[2]
	month = months[int(dateMonth)-1]
	monthNum = str(int(dateMonth)).zfill(2)

	#folder exists? if not, create them!
	if not os.path.exists(folder + dateYear):
	    print 'Making dir:' + folder + dateYear
	    os.makedirs(folder + dateYear)
	if not os.path.exists(folder + dateYear + '/' + monthNum + '-' + month):
	    print 'Making dir:' + folder + dateYear + '/' + monthNum + '-' + month
	    os.makedirs(folder + dateYear + '/' + monthNum + '-'  +month)


	#Move files
	print 'Movendo: ' + files + ' --> ' +  folder + dateYear + '/' + monthNum + '-' + month + '/'
	os.rename(picName[-1],folder + dateYear + '/' + monthNum + '-' + month + '/' + picName[-1])

print "Done :)"

😉