I have a folder containing over 2,000 web pages I've downloaded. Most of the file extensions are .html, though some are .pdf or .webarchive. My OS is Mojave.
When I highlight an icon in Finder, it lists a variety of metadata, including the source URL, the page title, author, and the date I downloaded it.
Is there a way to grab all that information – each file name, along with the source URL, page title, author and date downloaded – so I can put it in a Numbers spreadsheet?
I can do it manually, one file at a time, but that will take days.
Best Answer
ExifTool might be able to do it. You would need to extract them by name (see the MacOS tags page) or you could add the
-api 'MDItemTags=1'
option, as they are not extracted by default.A command such as this will extract your tags and create a CSV file for you
exiftool -csv -filename -MDItemWhereFroms -MDItemTitle -MDItemAuthors -MDItemDownloadedDate /path/to/files >Outfile.csv