Lightroom scripts, any interest?

Question

I have started tinkering with writing some scripts in Python to go in and do some custom updating in the LR database.
The first script I've written is one that fill a void after moving from IMatch. In IMatch I had several key tags that I wanted all photos to be tagged with. That is, I wanted all photos to be tagged with that tag or one of its children. For instance, I had one key tag named "People", and all photos would have that tag or one of its children. For photos without people in them I would simply have a None sub-tag.
The void that needed to be filled was that I could in IMatch add a calculated tag that said "This tag will contain all images that do not have the People tag (or a child tag) applied to it". That way, to work through new images I would simply go to this calculated tag and start tagging photos. As I worked my way through it, the images would disappear from this calculated tag, eventually leaving it empty for my next import.
This is what I've added a simply script for with LR. I can now add a child-tag to my key People tag named "@missing" (the name is arbitrary, but @ sorts it to the top of the child-tags), and when I run the script all photos not having one of the People-tags applied to it will be in the @missing tag.
To begin with I will work with tags only, as dealing with all the metadata applied to images looks like a daunting task.
But, my question is, is there an interest in such scripts? Perhaps we could join forces if there are more people out there wanting to work with this.
My email is [email protected], but I will monitor this topic as well.

Answer 1

Part of the issue some people were having when updating the database in 1.1 were due to externally modified databases. While they still worked fine with the old version, the conversion program would break due to the unofficial changes.