Hi Brian,

I've been working on an api module/extension to extract metadata from
> commons image description pages, and display it in the API.


Awesome!


> The downside to this is in order to effectively get metadata out of
> commons given the current practises, one essentially has to screen
> scrape and do slightly ugly things
>

This [1] looks quite acrobatic indeed. Can’t we make better use of the
machine-readable markings provided by templates?
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Machine-readable_data>

[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80403/4/CommonsMetadata_body.php

-- 
Jean-Frédéric
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