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A Macro to Install ExifTool
2 December 2024
Once upon a time, email notificiations of new versions of ExifTool came with a link to the macOS disk image with an installer. Recent emails do not.
The ExifTool MacOS Package is, apparently, still available from the ExifTool home page. But if you want the full Perl package, which we use with ImageMagick in a variety of macros, you have to downoad the "normal MacOS package."
Phil Harvey gives a command line recipe for installing the normal package in Terminal but we thought we'd make life a little easier by writing a Keyboard Maestro macro to do it for us.
ExifTool Installer. Provides the full package. Download the macro.
The macro activates Terminal and then presents a dialog box to prompt for the new version number and the download location (which defaults to ~/Downloads). It uses that information to run Harvey's command lines. And adds one to report the current ExifTool version to confirm success.
The last of Harvey's command lines uses
sudo, which requires an administrator password. In our macro, we include the password (see "echo 'yourpassword'" and change "yourpassword" to your own. That lets the confirmation run without delay but you can delete the echo-password bit as well as the last line if security is an issue on your machine.BTW, you can get Keyboard Maestro at a discount here.