How to get Metadata from Image using python

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Answer 1

To get started, you need to install Pillow library:
pip3 install Pillow

Open up a new Python file and follow along:
from PIL import Image
from PIL.ExifTags import TAGS

Now this will only work on JPEG image files, take any image you took and test it for this tutorial (if you want to test on my image, you'll find it in the tutorial's repository):

# path to the image or video
imagename = "image.jpg"

# read the image data using PIL
image = Image.open(imagename)

After reading the image using the Image.open() function, let's call the getexif() method on the image which returns image metadat

# extract EXIF data
exifdata = image.getexif()

The problem with exifdata variable now is that the field names are just IDs, not a human-readable field name, that's why we gonna need the TAGS dictionary from PIL.ExifTags module which maps each tag ID into a human-readable text:

Answer 2

# iterating over all EXIF data fields
for tag_id in exifdata:
# get the tag name, instead of human unreadable tag id
tag = TAGS.get(tag_id, tag_id)
data = exifdata.get(tag_id)
# decode bytes
if isinstance(data, bytes):
data = data.decode()
print(f"{tag:25}: {data}")

Answer 3

Marcel žak