ZipExtractMerge

Extract multiple zip files and compile files into shared folder names

Example Google Data Download Use Case

Google Takeout allows you to download all of your data from Google. This is great, but it is a pain to download all of the files individually. This script will extract all of the zip files and compile the files into a shared folder structure. This makes it easier to reupload the data to another service.

Documentation

Requirements:

• Python 3.6+
• macOS or Linux for command line usage

Class.zipExtractMerge

This class is used to extract all zip files in a directory into a destination directory. The constructor takes in the location of the zip files 'zip_directory' and the destination directory 'dest_directory'. It will then create the destination directory if it does not exist, and then extract all zip files into it, while sorting files into similar folders.

args

• zip_directory (str): directory where zip files are
• dest_directory (str): directory to extract to

Methods

map_files(skip_types:list[str]=[])

Creates a dictionary of all files in the zip files and sets the obj.file_map attribute to it. The dictionary is structured as follows:

 obj.file_map {zip_file_path: {file_dir_path: {files}}}

args

• skip_types (list[str]): list of file types to skip

extract_files(delete:bool=False)

Extracts all files in the zip files to the destination directory. If 'delete' is True, it will delete the zip files after extraction.

args

• delete (bool): When 'True' deletes each zip file after extraction. Default: 'False'

Command Line Usage

execute by running the following command in the terminal:

./zipExtractMerge.py [zip_direct] [dest_direct] [skip_types] [delete]

args

• '-zd', '--zip_direct' (str): directory where zip files are
• '-dd', '--dest_direct' (str): directory to extract to
• '-st', '--skip_types' (str): list of file types seperated by commas and space to skip
• '-d', '--delete' (bool): When 'True' deletes each zip file after extraction. Default: 'False'