How to get license and attribution?

Hello, First of all thank you to Spencer and all the other contributors to this amazing library! I’m trying to get the license and attribution for the images via their commons page, what I’m doing now is making the commons URL first and then trying to find the information from that page. however, I’m not sure how to advance. as an example getting the second image’s info from “Alexander the Great” wiki article:

  wtf.fetch('Alexander the Great').then(doc => {
    let commonsPageURL = `https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/${doc.images()[1].file()}`
    wtf.fetch(commonsPageURL, {wiki:"commons.wikimedia"}).then(doc => {
      console.log(doc.tables()) // nothing
      console.log(doc.section("summary")) // nothing
      console.log(doc.section("licensing")) //nothing
      console.log(doc.sections()) // two sections with templates
    })
  })

Am I going about this in the wrong way?

[spencermountain]

hey @FFatur - that is a very clever solution, and a cool way to use the api. Yeah- they sure don’t make it easy. That image is using the self template, and I’ve seen a lot of images use the pd-self template. Looks like there’s also licence info in the Information template, like this one

wtf.fetch('https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ACMA_1331_Alexander_2.JPG').then(doc => {
  let res = doc.templates().map(t => t.json())
  res = res.filter(o => o.template === 'self' || o.template === 'pd-self' || o.template === 'information')
  console.log(res)
})

oof - i’d be happy to work on improving this with you. If you got a sense for where the bulk of the licence data is, maybe we could add a Image.licence() method, or something? cheers

[spencermountain]

good question. Yeah, i was originally supporting .images(0).json(), as a supposedly-cleaner version than .images()[0] ... with null-checking. But the main library’s been turning-back from that. The plugins should follow. Like you said, it makes the typescript a mess. Feel free to change it - it just means a major version for the breaking change. cheers