On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Ricordisamoa <[email protected]> wrote: > Il 11/12/2014 23:28, Dan Garry ha scritto: >> >> THIS IS AWESOME >> >> Do you know when we are going to be able to start querying this via an API > in production? >> >> The Mobile Apps Team would love to consume this data, as opposed to the > present data exposed via the CommonsMetadata API (which is scraped, eugh). > > As far as I understand the information Guillaume is talking about is exactly > the one scraped by CommonsMetadata. > See https://tools.wmflabs.org/mrmetadata/how_it_works.html: > «The script needs to go through all file description pages of a wiki, and > check for machine-readable metadata by querying the CommonsMetadata > extension.»
That's correct. However, just to be clear, CommonsMetadata doesn't just scrape the HTML (or the wikitext), it scrapes the HTML to look for the machine-readable markers, and exposes that information through the API. Until we have Structured Data (which is /at least/ a year out), CommonsMetadata is still the best way to access that information. -- Guillaume Paumier _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
