takeout-fixer
| Crates.io | takeout-fixer |
| lib.rs | takeout-fixer |
| version | 0.1.5 |
| created_at | 2026-01-18 19:31:47.962966+00 |
| updated_at | 2026-01-18 20:08:02.060451+00 |
| description | A tool to fix Google Takeout photo metadata issues |
| homepage | |
| repository | https://github.com/JeppeKlitgaard/GoogleTakeoutPhotoFixer |
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| id | 2052929 |
| size | 103,166 |
Jeppe Klitgaard (JeppeKlitgaard)
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Yet Another Google Takeout Photo Metadata Fixer
A largely vibe-coded CLI tool to fix metadata in photos exported from Google Photos via Google Takeout.
In short, it inserts metadata that Google Photos has detached into .json files back into the original media.
The implementation is relatively fast and safe. I struggled to get existing tools to even work on the raw Takeout archives and had little faith in their ability to handle edge-cases like metadata and media being split across archives.
Please report any issues in a reproducible way or submit PR's.
No guarantees on the correctness of the tools output are made!
Installation
You can either grab the appropriate executable from the GitHub Releases or install it with cargo binstall:
cargo binstall takeout-fixer
Usage
You must download your Google Photos data using Google Takeout and store the archive(s) in a folder.
You may only get a single archive (preferred: .zip or .tar.gz), or multiple archives. Store all archives in a folder, say MyTakeout, then run:
takeout-fixer --photo-dir "Google Photos" --output-dir fixed-photos fix MyTakeout
Where "Google Photos" is the name of the folder for your photos inside of the archives beneath the Takeout folder.
This needs to be specified since Google localises this to your account language. As an example, for Danish users an archive will folder structure:
takeout-XXXXYYZZTHHMMSSZ-P-123.zip/Takeout/Google Fotos/ALBUMS
Thus if your Google Photos is set up for a Danish account, you would use --photo-dir "Google Fotos".