Junk File Organizer in Python?

This might seem very useful for a lazy python programmer who keeps most of the files and folders at one location and sometimes at confused what all files are there and surely he is too lazy to do it manually. So below is a python program to organize or simplify everything in appropriate folder in the single go and remove empty directories.

So we have a directory path where lots of files of different types are present (like below) and our program we segregate each file type into their respective folders (like below).

Input folder structure

Desired Output

First create different folders based on types of files we are going to segregate into different folders:

DIRECTORIES = {
   "HTML": [".html5", ".html", ".htm", ".xhtml"],
   "IMAGES": [".jpeg", ".jpg", ".tiff", ".gif", ".bmp", ".png", ".bpg", "svg",
   ".heif", ".psd"],
   "VIDEOS": [".avi", ".flv", ".wmv", ".mov", ".mp4", ".webm", ".vob", ".mng",
   ".qt", ".mpg", ".mpeg", ".3gp"],
   "DOCUMENTS": [".oxps", ".epub", ".pages", ".docx", ".doc", ".fdf", ".ods",
   ".odt", ".pwi", ".xsn", ".xps", ".dotx", ".docm", ".dox",
   ".rvg", ".rtf", ".rtfd", ".wpd", ".xls", ".xlsx", ".ppt",
   "pptx"],
   "ARCHIVES": [".a", ".ar", ".cpio", ".iso", ".tar", ".gz", ".rz", ".7z",
   ".dmg", ".rar", ".xar", ".zip"],
   "AUDIO": [".aac", ".aa", ".aac", ".dvf", ".m4a", ".m4b", ".m4p", ".mp3",
   ".msv", "ogg", "oga", ".raw", ".vox", ".wav", ".wma"],
   "PLAINTEXT": [".txt", ".in", ".out"],
   "PDF": [".pdf"],
   "PYTHON": [".py"],
   "XML": [".xml"],
   "EXE": [".exe"],
   "SHELL": [".sh"]
}

Secondly, create the map of file type into their respective folders:

FILE_FORMATS = {file_format: directory
   for directory, file_formats in DIRECTORIES.items()
   for file_format in file_formats}
def organise_folder():
   for entry in os.scandir():
      if entry.is_dir():
         continue
      file_path = Path(entry)
      file_format = file_path.suffix.lower()
      if file_format in FILE_FORMATS:
         directory_path = Path(FILE_FORMATS[file_format])
         directory_path.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
         file_path.rename(directory_path.joinpath(file_path))

   try:
      os.mkdir("OTHER-FILES")
   except:
      pass

   for dir in os.scandir():
      try:
         if dir.is_dir():
            os.rmdir(dir)
         else:
            os.rename(os.getcwd() + '/' + str(Path(dir)), os.getcwd() + '/OTHER-FILES/' + str(Path(dir)))
      except:
pass

Final script:

That’s it, below is our final script to filter file types into their respective folders.

#Python Lazy Junk Files Organizer

#Import important libraries
import os
from pathlib import Path

#
DIRECTORIES = {
   "HTML": [".html5", ".html", ".htm", ".xhtml"],
   "IMAGES": [".jpeg", ".jpg", ".tiff", ".gif", ".bmp", ".png", ".bpg", "svg",
   ".heif", ".psd"],
   "VIDEOS": [".avi", ".flv", ".wmv", ".mov", ".mp4", ".webm", ".vob", ".mng",
   ".qt", ".mpg", ".mpeg", ".3gp"],
   "DOCUMENTS": [".oxps", ".epub", ".pages", ".docx", ".doc", ".fdf", ".ods",
   ".odt", ".pwi", ".xsn", ".xps", ".dotx", ".docm", ".dox",
   ".rvg", ".rtf", ".rtfd", ".wpd", ".xls", ".xlsx", ".ppt",
   "pptx"],
   "ARCHIVES": [".a", ".ar", ".cpio", ".iso", ".tar", ".gz", ".rz", ".7z",
   ".dmg", ".rar", ".xar", ".zip"],
   "AUDIO": [".aac", ".aa", ".aac", ".dvf", ".m4a", ".m4b", ".m4p", ".mp3",
   ".msv", "ogg", "oga", ".raw", ".vox", ".wav", ".wma"],
   "PLAINTEXT": [".txt", ".in", ".out"],
   "PDF": [".pdf"],
   "PYTHON": [".py"],
   "XML": [".xml"],
   "EXE": [".exe"],
   "SHELL": [".sh"]
}

FILE_FORMATS = {file_format: directory
   for directory, file_formats in DIRECTORIES.items()
   for file_format in file_formats}

def organise_folder():
   for entry in os.scandir():
      if entry.is_dir():
         continue
      file_path = Path(entry)
      file_format = file_path.suffix.lower()
      if file_format in FILE_FORMATS:
         directory_path = Path(FILE_FORMATS[file_format])
         directory_path.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
         file_path.rename(directory_path.joinpath(file_path))
   try:
      os.mkdir("OTHER-FILES")
   except:
      pass

   for dir in os.scandir():
      try:
         if dir.is_dir():
            os.rmdir(dir)
         else:
            os.rename(os.getcwd() + '/' + str(Path(dir)), os.getcwd() + '/OTHER-FILES/' + str(Path(dir)))
      except:
         pass
if __name__ == "__main__":
   organise_folder()

After running above script from a particular directory path, we’ll get output something like,

Output