How can I export my Shotwell gallery?

Question

So I really like shotwell and I've been using it for about half a year now. The only problem, there is no export function, and I grouped all my events and named them. Is there any script/plugin out there I could export all of them into a folder structure like 2012_02 Event XY?

Answer 1

Okay, since I didn't modify the pictures in Shotwell I'm fine with this little script:

from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 as sqlite
import os
import shutil

targetdirectory = "/home/dan/pictures new/"

db = sqlite.connect('photo.db')
cur = db.cursor()
cur.execute('SELECT strftime("%Y_%m", datetime(PhotoTable.timestamp, "unixepoch")) ||" "|| EventTable.name, PhotoTable.filename FROM PhotoTable LEFT JOIN EventTable ON PhotoTable.event_id = EventTable.id')
for row in cur:

    dir = os.path.dirname(targetdirectory + str(row[0]) +"/")
    if not os.path.exists(dir):
            os.makedirs(dir)
    try:
        if os.path.exists(str(row[1])) and not os.path.exists(targetdirectory + str(row[0]) + "/" + os.path.basename(str(row[1]))):
            shutil.copyfile(row[1], targetdirectory + str(row[0]) + "/" + os.path.basename(row[1]))
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        print "Error: " + str(row[0])

I think it is really important to have an option to switch to another tool if you want to :)

Answer 2

You cannot export Folders directly however, you can open a Folder> Select all (Ctrl+A) and Export (Shift+Ctrl+E) > to > Location. (naming the folder)

I did find a script which may be adapted from https://github.com/johey/shotup

The Read me states:

Shotup is a tool for exporting a photo gallery from Shotwell, to a browsable online gallery.

Answer 3

There is now a shotwell export script based on Dan's example. It will dump the whole shotwell media library to a directory.

Call it like this to match your needs:

shotwell-export --filename "{y}_{m} {event}/{file}"

Disclaimer: it's written/adapted by me. Includes fixes for unicode problems and adds flexibility though arguments.