Hi,
I wanted to let you know that I extended youtube-dl [1] to allow upload to Wikimedia Commons (or any MediaWiki).
Youtube-dl is a utility written in Python to download videos from a variety of websites. It handles the actual download and extraction of metadata − thus most of the work.
The extension adds:
* License retrieving from YouTube and Vimeo (AFAIK the only services providing CC-licensing).
* Converting the extracted video to Ogg Theora (using ffmpeg2theora [2])
* Formatting the metadata to {{Information}}
* License checking to see if compatible with Wikimedia Commons
* Upload to Wikimedia Commons using Pywikipedia
In the end, my extension merely glues together youtube-dl (with added license handling), ffmpeg2theora and Pywikipedia.
It is called from command line like this :
./youtube-dl --wikimedia-commons-export --convert-theora --theora-audio-quality 8 --theora-video-quality 8 --theora-optimise http://vimeo.com/46348011
Code is available on GitHub :
<https://github.com/JeanFred/youtube-dl/tree/WikimediaCommonsPP>
And some test uploads :
<https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Uploaded_with_youtube-dl/WikimediaCommonsPP>
Afterthoughts: it certainly makes more sense to have a dedicated pywikipedia module only relying on youtube-dl for the video and metadata extraction, and taking care of the rest, and not the other way around like here. I went for this because it was the most straightforward way to do it, maybe I will rewrite it if I find the time.
Any feedback is welcome! :)
[1] <http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/>
[2] <http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/>
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Jean-Frédéric