exif-meta

v0.1.0Verified publisher

Reads an online image or document's metadata with ExifTool: GPS, camera, authors, dates

Community-packaged from github.com/osintverse-community/exif-meta: the registry's community pins the upstream release; the tool is its authors' work. Maintain that project? Claim this package.

Run

TerminalAgent

Through ot mcp, an agent calls run_tool with this; ot asks you before anything that goes online or touches a target. Set it up: ot mcp install claude (or cursor, vscode, codex, gemini).

{"tool":"osintverse-community/exif-meta","target":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ianare/exif-samples/master/jpg/gps/DSCN0010.jpg","input_type":"url"}

Or just say: "Run osintverse-community/exif-meta on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ianare/exif-samples/master/jpg/gps/DSCN0010.jpg with OTInstaller." The registry's read-only MCP server at api.otinstaller.com/mcp can find tools without installing anything.

ot run osintverse-community/exif-meta url:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ianare/exif-samples/master/jpg/gps/DSCN0010.jpg --format table

ot install osintverse-community/exif-meta

Docker image in a read-only container · network allowed · no key · up to 2 min. The first ot run installs the tool after asking once. The example value is the registry's own test input, so this command has run. Drop --format table for JSON.

Don't have ot? Install it in one line

macOS / LinuxWindows

curl -fsSL https://get.otinstaller.com/ot | sh

What this script does

Downloads the latest ot release for your machine from GitHub Releases.
Checks its SHA-256 against checksums.txt, and the Ed25519 signature on that file against the key built into the script.
Puts ot in /usr/local/bin or ~/.local/bin. Nothing else is written. Read the script.

irm https://get.otinstaller.com/ot.ps1 | iex

What this script does

Downloads the latest ot release for your machine from GitHub Releases.
Checks its SHA-256 against checksums.txt, and the Ed25519 signature on that file against the key built into the script.
Puts ot in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\ot, and adds it to your PATH. Nothing else is written. Read the script.

Evidence

Security tab →

Pinnedimage sha256:9dae55ed…181e0c. The same bytes on every install; ot pulls by digest, never by tag.
Signedby https://github.com/osintverse-community/exif-meta/.github/workflows/otinstaller-release.yml@refs/heads/main via token.actions.githubusercontent.com, verified by the registry on 20 Oct 2026. ot checks the same identity before every install and refuses another signer.
Scanned20 Oct 2026: 0 critical, 47 high, 66 medium, 65 low vulnerabilities; 0 embedded secrets, 0 malware heuristics; SBOM with 94 packages.
Workssmoke test passed on 20 Oct 2026 (exit 0 in 2.7 s, offline sandbox); the nightly health check passed (today).
Backed upa copy of this image is on the registry's mirror. If the original registry refuses it, ot pulls the same digest from the mirror and checks the same signature.
Reviewedosintverse-community is a verified publisher: the registry confirmed who runs it, and a person reviewed its first release against the acceptable-use rules.

What you get back

Result envelope →

{
  "envelope": 1,
  "tool": "osintverse-community/exif-meta@0.1.0",
  "runtime": "docker",
  "input": {
    "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ianare/exif-samples/master/jpg/gps/DSCN0010.jpg"
  },
  "started_at": "2026-10-21T09:00:00Z",
  "duration_ms": 4100,
  "exit_code": 0,
  "entities": [
    {
      "type": "location",
      "value": "51.5074,-0.1278",
      "attrs": {
        "city": "London"
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "person",
      "value": "Jane Doe",
      "source": "gitlab.com"
    },
    {
      "type": "image",
      "value": "https://example.com/photo.jpg",
      "attrs": {
        "phash": "8f373714acfcf4d0"
      }
    }
  ],
  "warnings": []
}

Every tool returns this shape, shaped here from what this tool declares it finds. --format table to read it; ot extract and ot auto to continue.

exif-meta

Downloads an image or document (up to 25 MB) and reads all of its metadata with ExifTool: GPS coordinates, camera make, model and serial number, editing software, author and copyright fields, and when it was taken and changed.

ot run osintverse-community/exif-meta --url https://example.com/photo.jpg

Inputs

Input	Required
`url`	yes	URL of the image or document

Notes

Most social networks strip metadata on upload, so originals from websites, cloud shares and email attachments are more useful. The file is downloaded into the container's temporary storage and deleted when the run ends. The full ExifTool output is in the metadata field of the raw result.

Next steps

Open the coordinates with osintverse-community/geo-links and look for other copies with osintverse-community/reverse-image-links.

Development

pip install # no dependencies
python -m unittest
ot validate

Releases are built, signed and published by the otinstaller release workflow (Actions tab, with the version to release).

License

MIT

Guides using this tool

Image verification and geolocation playbook

Check a photo's metadata, find earlier copies, and work out where and when it was taken

About image, url
intermediate

Verified publisher

What next

exif-meta finds location, person, image, document, other. Tools that take those:

person → 1 tool ot auto, with a saved result

Other url tools

All url tools →

Alternatives to exif-meta that also take an url; ot auto runs every installed one on the same value.

osintverse-community/gallery-dl

Lists the images and metadata of posts and galleries on Reddit, Flickr, Imgur, Tumblr and 300+ sites

Takes url → finds image, other, url
No key · Python wheel