# How to automatically store Metadata of uploaded files?

**URL:** <https://forum.pydio.com/t/how-to-automatically-store-metadata-of-uploaded-files/3300>\
**Category:** Pydio Cells\
**Created:** [May 27, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/how-to-automatically-store-metadata-of-uploaded-files/3300 "2020-05-27T12:59:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Smith](https://forum.pydio.com/u/Smith)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/how-to-automatically-store-metadata-of-uploaded-files/3300/1 "2020-05-27T12:59:20Z")

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I wonder if Pydio Cells can **automatically** retrieve metadata from a XML files, that are uplouded. So, for example, there is a STATEMENT TYPE element in the file, which can have different values. After loading the XML files and the automatically loaded predefined metadata, I could search for the files according to various criteria.

For example search files with DATE=1992 AND CODE=3 AND CODE=8. Can Pydio do this?

Example of XML file:

\<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? exportHeader creatorSN="" creatorVersion="2.31" creatorType="ASD" exportVersion="2.4" book Book\_GUID="17dc8a35-b9e7-4bd0-882c-c7eb7ef78d0d" Date="1992" statement type="Action" valid="no" code="10" Paul statement statement type="Common" valid="no" code="3" John statement statement type="Common" valid="no" code="8" Andrea statement statement type="Common" valid="yes" code="80" Other statement\> (notice: I dont know how to put XML text here, so every statement type are in separate lines, hope you understund)

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**Author:** ![drzraf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/drzraf/32/1207_2.png) [@drzraf](https://forum.pydio.com/u/drzraf)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/how-to-automatically-store-metadata-of-uploaded-files/3300/2 "2020-05-27T22:22:52Z")

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> <https://github.com/pydio/cells/issues/207>
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> The Exif extractor plugin Display the Exif metadata contained inside the JPG files. (Can locate the image on a map if...