Metadata Extraction Python Packages

htmldate

Fast and robust date extraction from web pages, with Python or on the command-line

kreuzberg

A polyglot document intelligence framework with a Rust core. Extract text, metadata, images, and structured information from PDFs, Office documents, images, and 97+ formats. Available for Rust, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, PHP, Elixir, C#, R, C, TypeScript (Node/Bun/Wasm/Deno)- or use via CLI, REST API, or MCP server.

aiu

A library for interacting with web archive collections at Archive-It, Trove, Pandora, and more.

wavinfo

Probe WAVE Files for all metadata

pymage-size

A utility package for getting image dimensions without loading files into memory. No dependencies!

ruminant

Recursive metadata extraction tool

tern

Tern is a software composition analysis tool and Python library that generates a Software Bill of Materials for container images and Dockerfiles. The SBOM that Tern generates will give you a layer-by-layer view of what's inside your container in a variety of formats including human-readable, JSON, HTML, SPDX and more.

metadata-guardian

Provide an easy way with Python to protect your data sources by searching its metadata. 🛡️

traktor-nowplaying

traktor_nowplaying uses Traktor's broadcast functionality to extract metadata about the currently playing song.

photomapai

A modern image browser and search tool that uses AI to generate a "semantic map" of your collection.

namingpaper

CLI tool to rename academic papers using AI-extracted metadata

sd-parsers

A Python library to read metadata from images created by Stable Diffusion.

metaspector

Python library to inspect and export metadata from MP4/M4V/M4A, MP3 and FLAC media files.

gimie

Extract linked metadata from repositories

music-metadata-extractor

Extract song metadata from YouTube links with Spotify API

pymetagen

Metadata Generator

gitspyx

Advanced OSINT tool for GitHub reconnaissance — get profiles, repo insights & metadata instantly.

spyware

This package implements a complete SpyWare.

tikara

The metadata and text content extractor for almost every file type.

geotcha

Extract and harmonize RNA-seq metadata from NCBI GEO

pymetasec

Utility to download and extract document metadata from an organization. This technique can be used to identify: domains, usernames, software/version numbers and naming conventions.

sitemap-harvester

Crawl sitemap of a given website and export metadata of its pages recursively into CSV format.

surgery

Offline CLI tool for inspecting and modifying media metadata.

infomedia

Python application that can be used to retrieve media file information such as duration, frame rate, bit rate, etc..