Participant

Question

Find and Replace in all of metadata

7 replies
522 views
Translate

Hi! Is there a script to find and replace a word in all of the fields of the metadata at the same time?

This topic is closed to new replies. Start a new post to keep the conversation going.

L

Lumigraphics

Legend

No, and its not even possible. Adobe's XMP library will not write to or display many fields. Even EXIFTool will not read/write to everything although it will come much closer. You would need a SPECIFIC list of what you want changed.

I would recommend the post examples for EXIFTool.

I have a script which helps integrate EXIFTool and Bridge, and may make this a bit easier if you are not familiar with the command line.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mg817g9a9ymbasi/AADTmXUVxmFfM58bcyYE7yiwa?dl=0

Look in Developmental folder.

Translate

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Here it is for ExifTool:

exiftool -api 'Filter=s/Blue/Yellow/g' -TagsFromFile @ -IPTC:Caption-Abstract -IPTC:By-line -IPTC:ObjectName -IPTC:Keywords -XMP-dc:Creator -XMP-dc:Title -XMP-dc:Description -XMP-dc:Subject -IFD0:ImageDescription -IFD0:Artist 'Path to File or Dir'

Changing case-sensitive Blue to Yellow - formatted for the Mac with single-straight quotes (Windows would use double-straight quotes).

Before:

After:

Translate

hannaa72427642Author

Participant

Thank you so much! This will save so much time!

Translate

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Thank you so much! This will save so much time!

By @hannaa72427642

You're welcome, however, as I mentioned earlier, you need to be specific about which metadata fields!

As you can see in Adobe File Info, there are only 4 entries for Blue, however, I needed to perform the find/replace in 10 different entries to completely cover the 4 instances. Many entries are written to multiple fields, if you miss some then you may get different/inconsistent results in different software.

Translate

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Not that I'm aware of. All fields? You need to be more specific.

You can try this one:

https://github.com/Paul-Riggott/PS-Scripts/blob/master/Find%20In%20Field.jsx

Translate

hannaa72427642Author

Participant

Thanks for your response! In know there is Paul-Riggotts Find and Replace but with that script you can only select a singel field. I want to do it in all fields (creator, description, keywords and so on) simultaneously.

Translate

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

That has to be programmed for, explicitly targeting each metadata entry. Some will be simple strings, others like keywords will be arrays/lists.

This isn't trivial, even with ExifTool which is simpler than scripting Bridge.

Translate

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.