Access Apple_iPhoto Library

This instructables show how to make a simple search from the Apple discontinued iPhoto library.

Since 2014, Apple Photos app replaced their iPhoto app. While OS upgrade the photos in iPhoto will migrate to Photos app seamlessly. But the entire old iPhoto library still keep within the user's Pictures folder.

Sometimes you may want to access the old library contents but iPhoto app no longer exist anymore. This instructables show you a simple way to search those old library contents.

PhoShare is an app that written in Python v2.x that can access and export iPhoto Library.

phoshare allows you to export and synchronize your iPhoto library to a folder tree. It preserves both the original and modified image, your event and album organization, and applies your iPhoto titles, descriptions, keywords, and face tags to the IPTC/EXIF metadata of your images.

Since Apple discontinued iPhoto, this library also discontinued. But the Python code for access iPhoto library still workable if you still have Python v2.x.

Ref.:

https://code.google.com/archive/p/phoshare/downloads

https://github.com/lhagan/phoshare

This project use a simple HTML form input the search parameters, then search iPhoto library and output the result.

If you are using docker, you can simple run follow command to kick start the server:

Then browse to http://localhost:8000/ to see the iPhoto server web page.

The sample source code can be found at GitHub:

https://github.com/moononournation/iPhoto-python-web.git

The iphotoserver.py implement iphotoHandler from SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler:

Read the iPhoto library at the beginning:

Override the POST request:

Search with iphotodata class then return the search result as HTML format.

If you still using Python 2.x, you can fill your iPhoto library path in iphotoserver.py:

Then kick start the web server:

My sample code is just the beginning. Once you can run the server successfully, you can enhance the iphotoserver.py and add more feature on it.

Now you can recall all your memories and reshare it again!