Add EXIF date-time from Google Photos takeout zip-file

takeout-fix-exif.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import shutil
import zipfile
import glob
import os.path
import json
import subprocess
from datetime import datetime, timezone

import exif
import pytz

shutil.rmtree('Takeout', ignore_errors=True)
with zipfile.ZipFile('/home/marnix/Downloads/takeout-20240323T163712Z-001.zip') as takeoutZipFile:
    takeoutZipFile.extractall()

shutil.rmtree('result', ignore_errors=True)
os.makedirs('result')

for jsonFileName in glob.glob('Takeout/**/*.*.json', recursive=True):
    with open(jsonFileName, 'rb') as jsonFile:
        metadata = json.load(jsonFile)
    imageFileName = jsonFileName[0:-len('.json')]
    if imageFileName.endswith('.mp4'):
        # skip non-images
        continue
    with open(imageFileName, 'rb') as imageFile:
        image = exif.Image(imageFile)
        hasDateTime = image.has_exif and 'datetime_original' in image.list_all()

    newImageFileName = os.path.join('result', os.path.basename(imageFileName))
    shutil.copy(imageFileName, newImageFileName)

    if hasDateTime:
        # don't update the EXIF timestamp in the file
        continue

    print(metadata)
    utcSeconds = int(metadata['photoTakenTime']['timestamp'])
    dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(utcSeconds, timezone.utc)
    dt = dt.astimezone(pytz.timezone('Europe/Amsterdam'))
    date = dt.strftime("%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S.%f%z")
    print(date)

    try:
        proc = subprocess.run([
            "exiftool",
            f"-SubSecDateTimeOriginal={date}",
            "-overwrite_original",
            newImageFileName
            ], check=True, capture_output=True)
    except Exception as ex:
        print("stdout:", ex.stdout)
        print("stderr:", ex.stderr)
        raise