Script: How to find photos without any keywords
Photos (version 1.0 to 3.0) has no option to search for photos that have not yet have any keywords assigned, like we could in Aperture or iPhoto. There is no search rule "Keyword is none" for the smart albums.
The Apple Script below can be used to look at selected photos in Photos and to add all photos to an album, that do not have any keywords.
See OT's post below for a download link.
(* Find All Photos Without Keywords © Léonie
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This script will scan the photos passed to it for keywords and add all photos without keywords to a standard album called missingKeywordsAlbum.
You can change the default name by adding a different album name in this line of the script: setmissingalbumnameto "missingKeywordsAlbum"
To use this script, select a some photos in Photos to check for missing keyword.
Then press the "Run" button.
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. This is safer when your Photos Library is an iCloud Photo Library.
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.
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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'stext item delimiters--save the delimiter
set missingalbumname to "missingKeywordsAlbum"
tell application "Photos"
activate
if (ReadFromAlbum) then -- the photos will be passed in a toplevel album named "PhotoDropBox"
try
if existscontainertheAlbumName then
set thePhotosBuffer to containertheAlbumName
set imageSel to every media item of thePhotosBuffer
else
error "Album " & theAlbumName & "does not exist"
end if
on error errTexttwonumbererrNumtwo
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 errTexttwonumbererrNumtwo
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 -- create an album for the photos without keywords
try
if existscontainermissingalbumname then
set kwa to containermissingalbumname
else
set kwa to (makenewalbumnamedmissingalbumname)
end if
on error errTexttwonumbererrNumtwo
display dialog "Cannot open album missingKeywordsAlbum: " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo
end try
repeat with im in imageSel
try
tell im
--set the text item delimiter
set AppleScript'stext item delimiters to {", "} --use a comma and space as the delimiter
-- retrieve the keywords
set kws to its keywords as string
if (not (exists kws) or (kws is "missing value")) then
add {im} to kwa
end if
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 the text item delimiter
set AppleScript'stext item delimiters to {", "} --use a comma and space as the delimiter
-- retrieve the keywords
set kws to its keywords as string
if (not (exists kws) or (kws is "missing value")) then
add {im} to kwa
end if
end tell
on error errTexttwonumbererrNumtwo
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'stext item delimiters to saved_delimiter--restore the delimiter
return "Done"
