PiwigoDirectoryUploader

This tools mirrors the directory structure of the given root directory as albums and subalbums in piwigo and uploads all images to the albums.

Features

Currently the following features are supported

• Creating directory structure as album hierarchy in Piwigo
• Check if an image needs to be uploaded (only md5sum version currently supported)
• Upload image and assign it to the album based on the directory structure

Planned:

• Upload updated images that changed locally
• Remove images no longer present (configurable)
• Specify more than one root path to gather images on the local system
• Local metadata storage (sqlite or similar) to make change detection easier

Build and run the application

checkout

To get the latest version, you should check out https://git.haefelfinger.net/piwigo/PiwigoDirectoryUploader.git to your local go source directory.

Build

Get all dependencies first.

go get ./...

Build your main executable by using the following command. By default it gets the name main.go but can be renamed to your favorite application name.

go build cmd/PiwigoDirectoryUploader/PiwigoDirectoryUploader.go

Configure

Next you need to prepare at least one configuration file. You may create more than one configuration file if you have multiple Piwigo installations.

cp ./configs/defaultConfig.ini ./localConfig.ini
nano ./localConfig.ini

Run

Finally you may run the application using the following example command.

./PiwigoDirectoryUploader -config=./localConfig.ini