Improve Wikimedia import options

[JimKillock]

Include licence, description and subtitle files when importing from Wikimedia Commons. Currently, an import from a URL such as https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Temperaturkurve_der_Erde_(ZDF,_Terra_X)_720p_HD_50FPS.webm will include the video and title, but other information is not imported.

Subtile files, licence information and a link to WM Commons for further details would be particularly useful.

Include on import:

• the subtitle files,

• description

• licence (cc-by-sa) plus link to the page to complete the licence attribution condition

This can of course be done manually but would be excellent to make easier where there are many videos to import and publish on PeerTube

Note that I am not sure whether this task ought to be done through the information collected by youtube-dl or is better or would be needed to be done by Peertube, so I raised a discussion here.

[Chocobozzz]

Hello,

We use yt-dlp or youtube-dl to grab this information, so the issue on their side should be enough: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30777

Regarding subtitles, for now PeerTube only supports vtt but you can create another issue so we support srt imports. But youtube-dl extractor needs to be fixed first:

  "subtitles": {
    "de": [
      {
        "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3ADie_Temperaturkurve_der_Erde_%28ZDF%2C_Terra_X%29_720p_HD_50FPS.webm&lang=de&trackformat=srt",
        "ext": "php"
      }
    ],
    "en-GB": [
      {
        "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3ADie_Temperaturkurve_der_Erde_%28ZDF%2C_Terra_X%29_720p_HD_50FPS.webm&lang=en-gb&trackformat=srt",
        "ext": "php"
      }
    ],
    "nl": [
      {
        "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3ADie_Temperaturkurve_der_Erde_%28ZDF%2C_Terra_X%29_720p_HD_50FPS.webm&lang=nl&trackformat=srt",
        "ext": "php"
      }
    ]
  }

ext should be srt

[JimKillock]

Hi @Chocobozzz is the code above a demonstration of the problem at youtube-dl ? is there something I should communicate to Youtube-dl that will hasten this (Apologies as I'm not an engineer, just a tinkerer).

[JimKillock]

I think I see at leat some of what you mean; I assume above is the output you get. Running the software on desktop I've been able to reproduce the error and have raised it with yt-dip also

[JimKillock]

@Chocobozzz we nearly have an extractor file done but are stuck on how to retrieve a list of subtitles from WM Commons - what did you do to get the result above?

[JimKillock]

We found the WM API call. So don't worry about this.