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 variant currently supported)
• Upload image and assign it to the album based on the directory structure
• Upload updated images that changed locally
• Local metadata storage using sqlite to make change detection easier
• Rebuild the local metadata database without uploading any pictures. Though, The categories get created!

There are some features planned but not ready yet:

• Optimize performance on initial matadata build up.
• Upload more than one file at a time
• Fully support files within multiple albums
• Specify more than one root path to gather images on the local system
• Remove images no longer present (configurable)

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

go build cmd/PiwigoDirectoryUploader/PiwigoDirectoryUploader.go

Configuration

Command line

You get the following help information to the command line by using:

./PiwigoDirectoryUploader -help

The following options are supported to run the application from the command line.

Usage of ./PiwigoDirectoryUploader:
  -allowMissingConfig
        Don't terminate the app if the ini file cannot be read.
  -allowUnknownFlags
        Don't terminate the app if ini file contains unknown flags.
  -config string
        Path to ini config for using in go flags. May be relative to the current executable path.
  -configUpdateInterval duration
        Update interval for re-reading config file set via -config flag. Zero disables config file re-reading.
  -dumpflags
        Dumps values for all flags defined in the app into stdout in ini-compatible syntax and terminates the app.
  -imagesRootPath string
        This is the images root path that should be mirrored to piwigo.
  -logLevel string
        The minimum log level required to write out a log message. (panic,fatal,error,warn,info,debug,trace) (default "info")
  -noUpload
        If set to true, the metadata gets prepared but the upload is not called and the application is exited with code 90
  -piwigoPassword string
        This is password to the given username.
  -piwigoUrl string
        The root url without tailing slash to your piwigo installation.
  -piwigoUser string
        The username to use during sync.
  -sqliteDb string
        The connection string to the sql lite database file. (default "./localstate.db")

Configuration file

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 the uploader

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

./PiwigoDirectoryUploader -config=./localConfig.ini