This python script uses the Watchdog API to observe a given directory for any modifications. If a change is detected, File-sorter will iterate through every file in the directory (top level only). File-sorter will check whether a file's extension has been defined in its .yaml config and will move the matching file to the specified directory.

Things you need to install the software and how to install them

Python3

pip install -r requirements.txt

usage: file-sorter.py [-h] --config CONFIG [--loglevel LOGLEVEL]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --config CONFIG      The .yaml config which will determine where to organise
                       a file according to its extension
  --loglevel LOGLEVEL  The log level that is to be outputted to the log file.

# Define master destination folders here 
master_dest_folders:
  pictures: &pictures "/Users/{User}/Pictures"

# Target folder to track any new changes
folder_to_track: "/Users/{User}/Downloads"

# extension definitions to look out for. E.g. extension: destination folder.
# Use YAML anchors and aliases for good DRY practice
entries:
  .jpg: *pictures

master_dest_folders is generally used to define a scalar anchor so directories can be defined once and referenced for multiple extensions. An example can be seen for .jpg

folder_to_track is the directory file-sorter will be watching and sorting.

entries contains the key-value mappings where the key is the target extension and the value is the destination directory of the files that match the extension.

./file-sorter.py --config file-sorter_config.yaml --loglevel info

This will start the file-sorter script and will continuously run until manually terminated.