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# Google Photos Takeout Organizer

Chrome extension — extract Takeout zips, merge metadata into photos, and organize everything locally in your browser.

Add to Chrome or Download zip

Install from the Chrome Web Store (recommended), or download the zip and load unpacked: in Chrome open `chrome://extensions`, turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and select the extracted folder. GitHub releases.

## Safe & local

This extension runs entirely in your browser. Your files never leave your computer. It uses the File System Access API only when you choose folders — no cloud upload, no telemetry. You can trust the publisher: Ronen Kopito (LinkedIn).

## How to use

1. Get the extension — Click “Get the extension” above and download the latest release from GitHub (or clone the repo).
2. Load in Chrome — Open `chrome://extensions`, turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked, and select the `Gphoto_organiser_JS` folder.
3. Open the popup — Click the extension icon in the toolbar to open the organizer popup.
4. Select folders — Choose your input folder (where your Takeout zips or extracted files are) and an output folder (where you want the organized result).
5. Scan or Apply — Use Scan for a dry run (no writes), or Apply to extract zips into a Lake, merge metadata into images, and write results to `output/Lake/`, `output/Processed/`, plus `report.json` and `file_map.json`.

## What it does

Same idea as the desktop app, but inside Chrome:

- Extracts Google Takeout ZIP files into a single Lake folder under your output path.
- Merges metadata (dates, GPS, Google Photos URL) into image EXIF.
- Copies videos and unmatched files into `Processed/`.
- Writes `file_map.json` (origin of each file) and `report.json` / `report.csv`.

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