Handle files and photos which are in a defined range of dates

[rafo]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I try to move pictures from one Holyday into one folder. I just need to know from which date till when my holyday took place.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add the strings rangeCreated rangeModified exif
to the mode-parameter from the created filter

To define that you are searching for files created (modified == rangeModified) between e.g 2021-12-23 and 2021-12-26 and you want to move them in one folder, you could simply:

rules:
  - name: Christmas Wishlists
    locations: "~/Desktop"
    filters:
      - created:
          start: 2021-12-12
          end: 2021-12-20
          mode: rangeCreated
    actions:
      - move: "~/Lists/{created.start.year}/{name}-{created.start}-{created.end}/"

And for pictures, you could simply:

rules:
  - name: Christmas photos
    locations: "~/Desktop"
    filters:
      - created:
          start: 2021-12-23
          end: 2021-12-26
          mode: exif
    actions:
      - move: "~/Pictures/{created.start.year}/{name}-{created.start}-{created.end}/"

Describe alternatives you've considered
Maybe just use the python extension.

Additional context
Pandas is great for time series in general, and has direct support for date ranges. For example pd.date_range().

"Returns the range of equally spaced time points [...] such that they all satisfy start <[=] x <[=] end"

Maybe this could help?

[xdhmoore]

The following seems to work for me for last modified time using a python filter:

#  organize run .\time_test.yaml --working-dir .

rules:
  - name: "test"
    locations: .
    filter_mode: all
    filters:
      - extension: "txt"
      - python: |
         import datetime
         start = datetime.datetime(2022, 6, 2 , 0, 0, 0).timestamp()
         end = datetime.datetime(2022, 6, 4 , 20, 42, 0).timestamp()

         return start < path.stat().st_mtime < end

    actions:
      - echo: "matched"

It looks like st_ctime may work for creation time depending on your OS.

It also looks like this project already has Pillow as a dependency, so maybe extracting exif data in a filter may not be much harder.