You used to have the current file at https://exiftool.org/exiftool-xx.xx_64.zip, which was available for apps to
download (ie like geotagninja could update its own ET from within the app).
That is no longer an option and it's not possible to my knowledge to just
point download requests at any sort of systematic way to SF.
Can you perhaps release packages on github? You already have the
tags/sourcecode zips there, adding the zipped execs shouldn't add a lot of
complication?
thanks
Phil will have to look into adding it to GitHub, but the big problem with hosting the files on exiftool.org was the fact that AI scraping bots are very abusive and hammered the website constantly. This is the reason that the forums have been offline. The web hosting company demanded an exorbitant amount of money due to the extreme amount of traffic that AI scrapers were causing.
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Thanks, noted. Makes sense I guess.
Github also has discussions feature although it's not as structured as an actual forum but might come handy if it's decided some things are moved there.
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My apps do something similar - first a check on "exiftool.org/ver.txt" to find the latest version and then download the source files from the exiftool.org site.
I hadn't noticed that the exiftool.org files were not available because there hasn't been a new version of Exiftool since May 2026.
It looks as though I need to modify my programs to download the source from here: "https://sourceforge.net/projects/exiftool/files/Image-ExifTool-13.59.tar.gz" - can you confirm that this is the recommended method?
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hi Phil,
You used to have the current file at
https://exiftool.org/exiftool-xx.xx_64.zip, which was available for apps to
download (ie like geotagninja could update its own ET from within the app).
That is no longer an option and it's not possible to my knowledge to just
point download requests at any sort of systematic way to SF.
Can you perhaps release packages on github? You already have the
tags/sourcecode zips there, adding the zipped execs shouldn't add a lot of
complication?
thanks
V.
Phil will have to look into adding it to GitHub, but the big problem with hosting the files on exiftool.org was the fact that AI scraping bots are very abusive and hammered the website constantly. This is the reason that the forums have been offline. The web hosting company demanded an exorbitant amount of money due to the extreme amount of traffic that AI scrapers were causing.
Thanks, noted. Makes sense I guess.
Github also has discussions feature although it's not as structured as an actual forum but might come handy if it's decided some things are moved there.
My apps do something similar - first a check on "exiftool.org/ver.txt" to find the latest version and then download the source files from the exiftool.org site.
I hadn't noticed that the exiftool.org files were not available because there hasn't been a new version of Exiftool since May 2026.
It looks as though I need to modify my programs to download the source from here: "https://sourceforge.net/projects/exiftool/files/Image-ExifTool-13.59.tar.gz" - can you confirm that this is the recommended method?