[Commons-l] Commons API

[Platonides]

Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
> I already started something some time ago on
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Machine_readability>. It
> allows you to extract all information provided by the {{Information}}
> template and some other templates. It's not yet finished; I'm still
> think what is the easiest way to fetch license information.
> 
> Bryan

The most reliable method used to be checking the categories for license 
tags. Maybe create a list of license tags, from Category:License_tags 
then look for them on article page?