# Reading Photo Info

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/reading-photo-info/46586>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Tags:** dynamo\
**Created:** [February 10, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/reading-photo-info/46586 "2020-02-10T15:17:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![cnealy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/cnealy/32/41186_2.png) [@cnealy](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/cnealy)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/reading-photo-info/46586/1 "2020-02-10T15:17:21Z")

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Hey all,

I’m wondering if anyone has seen a node or knows of a custom code block to read the “Date Taken” file info from a .jpeg file. I know virtually nothing about writing python script myself so my reliance on premade nodes is pretty much 100%.

Thanks for your help!

EDIT: Looks like the info I need is EXIF data. I found this on the web:

> **[Extracting date and time from images with Python](https://orthallelous.wordpress.com/2015/04/19/extracting-date-and-time-from-images-with-python/)**
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> For my time lapse script (which I’ve used to make this and this) I needed a way to get the date of when the image was taken for sorting purposes.

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23064549/get-date-and-time-when-photo-was-taken-from-exif-data-using-pil>

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**Author:** ![Kulkul](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/kulkul/32/49801_2.png) [@Kulkul](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Kulkul)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/reading-photo-info/46586/2 "2020-02-10T17:43:30Z")

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Hi @cnealy

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 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/a/4/a4d5224332b7f51ca4b4deb910a4c2357a01cf8e.png)

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**Author:** ![cnealy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/cnealy/32/41186_2.png) [@cnealy](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/cnealy)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/reading-photo-info/46586/3 "2020-02-10T17:51:50Z")

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Great!! Thank you!

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**Author:** ![c.poupin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/c.poupin/32/89152_2.png) [@c.poupin](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/c.poupin)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/reading-photo-info/46586/5 "2022-06-13T07:22:43Z")

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Split this topic on June 13, 2022, 7:22am UTC

A post was split to a new topic: [PIL package in Revit 2022 with python-3.10.5](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/pil-package-in-revit-2022-with-python-3-10-5/77574)

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**Author:** ![c.poupin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/c.poupin/32/89152_2.png) [@c.poupin](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/c.poupin)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/reading-photo-info/46586/6 "2022-06-13T07:22:58Z")

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Closed on June 13, 2022, 7:22am UTC