This is a library that calls the exif_tool command line tool and gets the EXIF metadata and brings it into Gleam with some nice types.

You need to have the exif_tool installed already and somewhere the shellout library can find it.

Someday it would be great if this library could just parse media files directly, but for now this solves my needs.

You can run it as a cli program, although, there's probably not many good reasons to do that.

gleam run <media-file-path>

gleam add exif_reader@1

import exif_reader

pub fn main() -> Nil {
  let file_path = "picture.jpg"
  echo exif_reader.get_media_file_metadata(file_path)
    |> exif_reader.get_description
}

gleam run   # Run the project
gleam test  # Run the tests