this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
7 points (88.9% liked)

Photography

4545 readers
72 users here now

A community to post about photography:

We allow a wide range of topics here including; your own images, technical questions, gear talk, photography blogs etc. Please be respectful and don't spam.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Photographer
7
Most scriptable organizing software? (self.photography)
submitted 1 year ago by KonaKoder to c/photography
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I currently use Lightroom & Lightroom Classic for organization, but I often find myself wanting to work on large numbers of files, while also being cautious about clobbering links or files. In LR Classic, I can write Lua-based scripts / plugins, which I can do, but is (for me) slow to author and worrisome about quality. And I don't at all feel like Adobe is committed to the plugin API, so I'm not even sure if it will be a future option.

With Darktable, I know I can also do Lua-based scripting.

Are there any other robust organizing tools capable of handling a >50K photo database that have a good scripting solution, either as an externally-callable API or in terms of a supported scripting language?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] KonaKoder 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MacOS primarily

[–] Prismo 1 points 1 year ago

I use Capture One for my image library which I script with AppleScript. It’s pretty adaptable considering how old AppleScript is.