Get date and time when photo was taken from EXIF data using PIL

Question

I can get the EXIF data from an image using PIL, but how can I get the date and time that the photo was taken?

Answer 1

I like to use exif-py because it's pure-python, does not require compilation/installation, and works with both python 2.x and 3.x making it ideal for bundling with small portable python applications.

Link: https://github.com/ianare/exif-py

Example to get the date and time a photo was taken:

import exifread
with open('image.jpg', 'rb') as fh:
    tags = exifread.process_file(fh, stop_tag="EXIF DateTimeOriginal")
    dateTaken = tags["EXIF DateTimeOriginal"]
    return dateTaken