Feature Request: Add option to upload from Snapchat Export

[lesleyxyz]

Use case:

I have 5gb of snapchat files (memories and chat_media) that I would like to import to Immich.
However these files do not contain any exif data.

Both the content of the memories and chat_media folder are in the format of:

Based on the file name you can extract the date.

Thank you & kind regards

[lesleyxyz]

Ahh I see you can use "--date-from-name" for this.
However, why does this option not support .png / .webp?

[simulot]

I have studied the possibility for importing a snapshat takeout. It appears there isn't any valuable information in the photos nor in other files. However it shows how this application knows everything you are doing of your life. 🙈

The --date-from-name should work for all kind of file. Could share some logs that shows the problem?

[simulot]

However, why does this option not support .png / .webp?

Just tested. What is your problem?

[lesleyxyz]

I ended up not using immich-go for the first step because of the limited exif information it would natively get from the export.

It would be nice if immich-go had the functionality from this repo as well:

https://github.com/aidandenlinger/SnapchatMemoriesCaptionAdder

This adds exif metadata such as location, caption, date/time. For some reason the snapchat export seperates the caption from images (see the first image of the readme in the repo).

After adding all this metadata I did use immich-go to upload the result of the project to immich.

So your call if you think this would be a nice addition :)

[simulot]

I understand hat captions are an image overlay on the main photo / video...
The caption can't be turned into text.
It can be imprinted on the image without big difficulties...
Videos would requires the use of FFMPEG which is not installed everywhere.

Could you share a sample with some data. You can do it directly on my discord account @simulot for privacy.
I would like to see how files are organized in the takeout.