Sometimes, I put pictures received via Whatsapp into my photo collection directory structure. This tool add date/time EXIF metadata to those images, implied from their file names, so that Photoprism can sort them correctly in the timeline.
Only files which do not already have date/time EXIF metadata are modified.
Needs exiftool installed (sudo apt-get install exiftool).
$ go install jo-m.ch/go/exifixer@latest
$ exifixer --help
Exifixer finds media files with missing EXIF tags,
tries to imply the timestamp from the file name,
and stores it in the file as EXIF tag.
Usage: exifixer [--log-pretty] [--log-level LEVEL] [--dry-run] DIR
Positional arguments:
DIR directory to process
Options:
--log-pretty log pretty [default: true, env: LOG_PRETTY]
--log-level LEVEL log level [default: info, env: LOG_LEVEL]
--dry-run, -d do not change any files [default: false]
--help, -h display this help and exit