Photo gallery frontend with encryption and search
reddit / selfhosted

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NiaHoshi · 2023-11-26 07:21

Hi. I want to implement an image server similar to
[Photoprism](https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism) using
[ImageAI](https://github.com/OlafenwaMoses/ImageAI) to tag images
based on objects and context. However I don't want to spend to much
time working on the frontend, at first I were thinking about using
Danbooru and use [Flexbooru](https://github.com/flexbooru/flexbooru)
or the web interface on my phone. But it doesn't have any encryption
or password protection (since the purpose of it is to be used as a
public image board).

So is there any good alternative for a photo gallery frontend with
encryption and search/tag feature? Thanks in advance.

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Pretend-Doctor-516 · 2023-11-26 08:47

what i do for images to be searched, and what I've done for years is
just remame files to what the image portrays, special emphasis on
keywords, and a syntax like _ or . as only seperators.  I've done this
for years and years and I try to always save images in an organized
manner just the only thing is doing this requires quite a lot of
discipline, and inevitably you'll have images not named by this
convention.  Unless your albums are all very hand picked, and you
spent the time renaming them.  I wouldn't want to endorse AI anything
but AI for this case is probably the only way.  Despite I can also
consider it potentially insecure or non-private, depending on the
images data.

Also google photos is still right dumb, and does not even grab
filenames from searches, but what do you expect from google anyways,
hah

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botterway · 2023-11-26 08:55

Renaming files like that is crazy. Why not just keyword tag them in
the Exif data, which is exactly how this stuff is supposed to work?

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geo38 · 2023-11-26 13:40

You can use a reverse proxy like nginx to add the authentication and
encryption for a plain http server.

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Pretend-Doctor-516 · 2023-11-26 20:41

Wow, do you know how I can get exif data from mass files?  Like to get
exif data, in a script, for all of ..  1000s of images?  What program
would I have to use?  This might be handy as ever indeed!

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TheAmazingEric11 · 2023-11-26 20:50

On Linux, exiftool.

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botterway · 2023-11-26 21:20

This.

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Pretend-Doctor-516 · 2023-12-01 15:35

Okay cool mate, thanks.  I just started workin with that today but
unfortunately from my python scripts it saves completely empty images
:/  with not even unix file info about :(  I'll figure it out tho :D:D
Thx