eirki / tinyxmp

Pure Python module for reading and writing metadata as raw XMP packets in various file formats.

tinyxmp

tinyxmp is a pure Python module for reading and writing metadata as raw XMP packets. It is designed to have very few external dependencies making it easily portable across platforms, server installations, etc.

Installation

pip install https://github.com/commonsmachinery/tinyxmp/tarball/master

Usage

import tinyxmp
x = tinyxmp.Metadata.load("webcam.png")
x.get_xmp()
x.write_xmp(xml_string)

Supported formats

• JPEG (JFIF)
• PNG

Known limitations and TODOs

Extended XMP packets in JPEG are not supported. Trying to write an XMP packet longer than 65502 bytes will result in exception.

Files are not locked while writing metadata.