move image file into their time separated folders based on their EXIF (or fallback to creation time)

explain.md

requires exifread

pip install exifread

move.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os
import sys
from datetime import datetime
import exifread as exif

def _date_from_exif(filename, extension='.jpg'):
    date = None
    date_by = None
    if filename.lower().endswith(extension):
        try:
            with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
                tags = exif.process_file(f)
                candidates = [
                    datetime.strptime(tags[name].values, '%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S')
                    for name in [
                        'EXIF DateTimeOriginal',
                        'EXIF DateTimeDigitized',
                        'Image DateTime'
                    ] if name in tags
                ]
                if candidates:
                    date = min(candidates)
                    date_by = "exif"
        except:
            print(f"Error: {filename}")
    return date, date_by

def _data_from_stat(filename):
    attr = os.stat(filename)
    date = datetime.fromtimestamp(min(attr.st_mtime, attr.st_atime, attr.st_ctime))
    date_by = "ctime"
    return date, date_by

def process(filename):
    date, date_by = _date_from_exif(filename, extension='.jpg')
    if not date:
        date, date_by = _data_from_stat(filename)
    folder = os.path.join(str(date.year), str(date.month))
    src = filename
    #dst = os.path.join(folder, *filename.split('/')[2:])
    dst = os.path.join(folder, *filename.split('/')[2:])
    #dst = os.path.join(folder, filename)
    if src != dst:
        print(f"{src}: @{date_by}-> {dst}")
        os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(dst), exist_ok=True)
        os.rename(src, dst)


def from_stdin():
    try:
        #for line in iter(sys.stdin.readline, b''):
        for line in iter(sys.stdin.readline, ''):
            process(line.strip())
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        sys.stdout.flush()
        pass

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        filename = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])
        process(filename)
    else:
        from_stdin()