Get Date of Photo/Image

get_date_image.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2.7

import sys
import locale
from PIL import Image
from PIL.ExifTags import TAGS
from datetime import datetime


 
def get_exif(fn):
  ret = {}
  i = Image.open(fn)
  info = i._getexif()
  for tag, value in info.items():
      decoded = TAGS.get(tag, tag)
      ret[decoded] = value
  return ret

#'DateTime': u'2017:12:21 10:52:44'
def get_fecha (fn):
  result = None
  data = get_exif(fn)
  key = 'DateTime'
  if key in data:
    dateTxt = data[key]
    datetime_object = datetime.strptime(dateTxt, '%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S')
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'es_ES.UTF-8')
    result = datetime_object.strftime("%A %-d de %B de %Y")
  return result

print get_fecha(sys.argv[1])