Get date and time when photo was taken from EXIF data using PIL
Found the answer eventually, the tag I needed was 36867:
from PIL import Imagedef get_date_taken(path): return Image.open(path)._getexif()[36867]
I like to use exif-py because it's pure-python, does not require compilation/installation, and works with both python 2.x and 3.x making it ideal for bundling with small portable python applications.
Link:https://github.com/ianare/exif-py
Example to get the date and time a photo was taken:
import exifreadwith open('image.jpg', 'rb') as fh: tags = exifread.process_file(fh, stop_tag="EXIF DateTimeOriginal") dateTaken = tags["EXIF DateTimeOriginal"] return dateTaken
This has changed slightly in more recent versions of Pillow (6.0+ I believe).
They added a public method getexif() that you should use. The previous version was private and experimental (_getexif()).
from PIL import Imageim = Image.open('path/to/image.jpg')exif = im.getexif()creation_time = exif.get(36867)