Append Keywords to Title Field - Léonie's Script
The following Applescript by léonie will append the keywords, separated by commas, assigned to an image to the contents of the Title field for that image.
I made 3 changes to loonie's original script (shown in bold red) that allow the script to work on images in the Photos/Moments window, All Photos window and in any album. The changes also separate the existing title from the keywords with a dash ( - ). Here's an example:
If you have no title in the title field you'll get this:
Additionally, if you has the iCloud Photo Library enabled you should change "false" to "true"in "set ReadFromAlbum to false".
-- batch change the title of images to the keywords
(* How to use this script:
Open this script in Script Editor. Launch Photos.
The photos can be passed to the script in two ways:
1. Either select photos while viewing the "All Photos" album; this works better than Moments or smart albums
2. Or collect the Photos in a top level defined album with a fixed name.
If you want to select the photos without collecting them in an album, set the variable "ReadFromAlbum" to false
If you want to pass the photos in a toplevel album, set ReadFromAlbum to true and change the variable "theAlbumName" to the name of the album you are using.
When all all photo are selected or in the album and all parameters set, press the "Run" button in Scripteditor.
*)
-- return AppleScript's text item delimiters
set ReadFromAlbum to false
-- set this to true, if you want to pass the photos in a toplevel album
set theAlbumName to "PhotoDropBox" -- change this to the name of the album you will use
set imageSel to {}
set saved_delimiter to AppleScript's text item delimiters --save the delimiter
tell application "Photos"
activate
if (ReadFromAlbum) then -- the photos will be passed in a toplevel album named "PhotoDropBox"
try
if exists container theAlbumName then
set thePhotosBuffer to container theAlbumName
set imageSel to every media item of thePhotosBuffer
else
error "Album " & theAlbumName & "does not exist"
end if
on error errTexttwo number errNumtwo
display dialog "Cannot open album: " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo
end try
else -- process the selected photos from the All Photos album
try
set imageSel to (get selection)
on error errTexttwo number errNumtwo
display dialog "Cannot get the selection: " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo
end try
end if
-- check, if the album or the selected photos do contain images
if imageSel is {} then
error "Please select some images."
else
repeat with im in imageSel
try
tell im
--set the text item delimiter
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {", "} --use a space as the delimiter
-- retrieve the keywords
set kws to its keywords as string
if not (exists kws) then
set kws to ""
end if
--retrieve the old title
set thename to its name
if not (exists thename) then
set thename to ""
else
set thename to thename & " "
end if
set its name to thename & "- " & kws
end tell
on error errText number errNum
display dialog "Error: " & errNum & return & errText & "Trying again"
try
delay 2 -- wait and try again
tell im
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {", "} --use a space as the delimiter
-- retrieve the keywords
set kws to its keywords as string
if not (exists kws) then
set kws to ""
end if
--retrieve the old title
set thename to its name
if not (exists thename) then
set thename to ""
else
set thename to thename & ", "
end if
set its name to thename & "- " & kws
end tell
on error errTexttwo number errNumtwo
display dialog "Skipping image due to repeated error: " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo
end try
end try
end repeat
end if
end tell
-- display dialog "Done"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to saved_delimiter --restore the delimiter
return "Done"
You can download a compiled version of the script as an application from this tutorial site: P01 - Applescripts from Photos’ User Tips Compiled as Applications
