Aperture AppleScript: Export Metadata (Individual Files) 01
Well, you can’t say that my script names aren’t descriptive.
Select a bunch of images in Aperture and run this script. It will ask you for a destination folder and create a text file corresponding to each selected image. This text file will contain all of the useful metadata that I could glean from an image using AppleScript.
Each metadata item will appear on its own line preceded by the name of that particular metadata field. That should allow for easy enough reuse of the data if you wanted to do that.
This script was inspired by a comment posted to another of my scripts.
Export Metadata (Individual Files) 01.scpt
Tags: Apple Aperture, AppleScript
This post has 2 comments
November 18th, 2010
Back in the day…(and I don’t know what day since the post isn’t dated)… you published some info and scripts on Aperture database access at:
http://homepage.mac.com/brettgross/Aperture/Aperture/DatabaseAccess.html
How much if any of that is still valid for Aperture 3.x?
This comes up because somebody in an Aperture Apple Discussion Group was asking about embedding the path to the master image into a metadata field; I didn’t imagine it was as difficult as it seems to be (after all, Aperture has a Show in Finder command which at least works for referenced masters.)
-Steve
November 22nd, 2010
@Steve- the database has changed for Aperture 3. I did work out the needed changes, but I’ve never put things together in a nice format. If you’re comfortable with AppleScript I can send you my raw notes