Write Exif/Metadata to file

[Nbra]

Hi,

Has anyone a good solution for writing geotag data to a image file via Node Red? I see there is many good solutions for reading exif data.

Im extracting .jpeg images from a RTSP stream using ffmpeg in a exec node, but I would also like to add metada and geotags to those images after they are created.

[Steve-Mcl]

@Nbra

Im extracting .jpeg images from a RTSP stream using ffmpeg in a exec node, but I would also like to add metada and geotags to those images after they are created.

If you are using latest node-red, you could import piexifjs

Here is a demo that adds a date taken, camera model and GPS coords...

The flow...

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Checkout the function code ↑ in the flow (use CTRL+I to import the flow)

[Nbra]

This was simply spot on! Thanks for the help.

Was skratching my head for a while, but I had to remove piexifjs from the function node I imported and re-instate it, first it threw me this "TypeError: The argument 'path' must be a string or Uint8Array without null bytes".

Works like a charm now.