From e1e0e76ab839a64bd0474f4e0aa58124742e1f51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: danellecline <dcline@mbari.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 13:31:53 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] added media tap for typical filename exported

---
 .../plugins/extractors/tap_vars_media.py      | 91 +++++++++++++++++++
 mbari_aidata/plugins/extractors/tap_voc.py    |  1 +
 2 files changed, 92 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 mbari_aidata/plugins/extractors/tap_vars_media.py

diff --git a/mbari_aidata/plugins/extractors/tap_vars_media.py b/mbari_aidata/plugins/extractors/tap_vars_media.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8042e96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mbari_aidata/plugins/extractors/tap_vars_media.py
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+# mbari_aidata, Apache-2.0 license
+# Filename: plugins/extractors/tap_vars_media.py
+# Description: Extracts media data for loading into Tator
+
+import re
+from datetime import datetime
+import pytz
+
+import pandas as pd
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from mbari_aidata.logger import info
+from mbari_aidata.plugins.extractors.media_types import MediaType
+
+
+def extract_media(media_path: Path, max_images: int = -1) -> pd.DataFrame:
+    """Extracts VARS image metadata"""
+
+    # Create a dataframe to store the combined data
+    media_df = pd.DataFrame()
+    allowed_extensions = [".jpg"]
+
+    # Check if media_path is a txt file containing list of paths
+    if media_path.is_file() and media_path.suffix.lower() == '.txt':
+        with open(media_path, 'r') as f:
+            paths = [line.strip() for line in f if line.strip()]
+        media_df["media_path"] = [p for p in paths if
+                                  Path(p).suffix.lower() in [ext.lower() for ext in allowed_extensions]]
+    elif media_path.is_dir():
+        media_df["media_path"] = [str(file) for file in media_path.rglob("*") if
+                                  file.suffix.lower() in allowed_extensions]
+    elif media_path.is_file():
+        media_df["media_path"] = [str(media_path)]
+        media_df = media_df[media_df["media_path"].str.endswith(tuple(allowed_extensions))]
+
+    media_df = media_df.sort_values(by="media_path").reset_index(drop=True)
+
+    if max_images and max_images > 0:
+        media_df = media_df.head(max_images)
+
+    media_type = MediaType.IMAGE
+
+    # Pattern for VARS images: <mission>_<YYYYMMDD>_<HHMMSS>_<millis>.jpg
+    pattern_vars = re.compile(r"^(.+?)_(\d{8})_(\d{6})_(\d+)\.jpg$")
+    # Pattern for UUID images
+    pattern_uuid = re.compile(r"^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}\.jpg$", re.IGNORECASE)
+
+    missions = {}
+    iso_datetimes = {}
+    elapsed_times = {}
+
+    media_df = media_df.groupby("media_path").first().reset_index()
+    info(f"Found {len(media_df)} unique media files")
+
+    for index, row in media_df.iterrows():
+        image_name = Path(row["media_path"]).name
+        info(image_name)
+
+        # Check if it's a UUID image
+        if pattern_uuid.match(image_name):
+            missions[index] = "Unknown"
+            continue
+
+        # Try to match VARS pattern
+        match = pattern_vars.match(image_name)
+        if match:
+            mission, date_str, time_str, millis = match.groups()
+            missions[index] = mission
+            elapsed_times[index] = int(millis)
+
+            # Parse datetime
+            year = int(date_str[0:4])
+            month = int(date_str[4:6])
+            day = int(date_str[6:8])
+            hour = int(time_str[0:2])
+            minute = int(time_str[2:4])
+            second = int(time_str[4:6])
+
+            dt = datetime(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, tzinfo=pytz.utc)
+            iso_datetimes[index] = dt
+
+    # Add extracted columns to dataframe
+    if missions:
+        media_df["mission"] = pd.Series(missions)
+    if iso_datetimes:
+        media_df["iso_datetime"] = pd.Series(iso_datetimes)
+    if elapsed_times:
+        media_df["index_elapsed_time_millis"] = pd.Series(elapsed_times).astype(int)
+
+    media_df["media_type"] = media_type
+    return media_df
diff --git a/mbari_aidata/plugins/extractors/tap_voc.py b/mbari_aidata/plugins/extractors/tap_voc.py
index 57548a3..a6a8dbe 100644
--- a/mbari_aidata/plugins/extractors/tap_voc.py
+++ b/mbari_aidata/plugins/extractors/tap_voc.py
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ def parse_voc(xml_file):
             'xy': y + h,
             'image_width': image_width,
             'image_height': image_height,
+            'verified': True
         }
         objs.append(obj)
 

From 3f870f2c8db93f73a52d97fc988e90aaab8a9e8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: danellecline <dcline@mbari.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 14:13:53 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] allow redirect

---
 mbari_aidata/commands/load_images.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mbari_aidata/commands/load_images.py b/mbari_aidata/commands/load_images.py
index f2e35aa..867da29 100644
--- a/mbari_aidata/commands/load_images.py
+++ b/mbari_aidata/commands/load_images.py
@@ -96,10 +96,12 @@ def load_images(token: str, disable_ssl_verify: bool, config: str, dry_run: bool
                 try:
                     timeout = 30
                     r = requests.head(image_url, timeout=timeout)
-                    if r.status_code != 200:
+                    if r.status_code == 301 or r.status_code == 200:
+                        info(f"URL {image_url} is valid code {r.status_code}")
+                        num_checked += 1
+                    else:
                         err(f"URL {image_url} is not valid status code {r.status_code}")
                         return -1
-                    num_checked += 1
                 except Exception as e:
                     err(f"Error checking URL {image_url}: {e}")
                     return -1