Automatically Detecting Image And Video Files For Further Processing

So I want to write a script which I only give a path to either a folder or a file, and it will then detect all video and image files and put them in a list of videos and a list of

Solution 1:

There is a library available just for this purpose. It surely will simplify the task.

Install the library filetype from HERE which can be easily installed using pip. The list of supported file types are also mentioned.

import filetype
file = filetype.guess(r'C:\Users\Jackson\Desktop\car.png')
if file is None:
    print('Cannot guess file type!')

elif:
    print('File extension: %s' % file.extension)
    print('File MIME type: %s' % file.mime)

I passed in a .png file which resulted in:

File extension: png
File MIME type: image/png

Using the mime attribute you can determine what type your file is.