import { Utils } from "../../Utils" export default class Wikimedia { /** * Recursively walks a wikimedia commons category in order to search for entries, which can be File: or Category: entries * Returns (a promise of) a list of URLS * @param categoryName The name of the wikimedia category * @param maxLoad: the maximum amount of images to return * @param continueParameter: if the page indicates that more pages should be loaded, this uses a token to continue. Provided by wikimedia */ public static async GetCategoryContents( categoryName: string, maxLoad = 10, continueParameter: string = undefined ): Promise { if (categoryName === undefined || categoryName === null || categoryName === "") { return [] } if (!categoryName.startsWith("Category:")) { categoryName = "Category:" + categoryName } let url = "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?" + "action=query&list=categorymembers&format=json&" + "&origin=*" + "&cmtitle=" + encodeURIComponent(categoryName) if (continueParameter !== undefined) { url = `${url}&cmcontinue=${continueParameter}` } const response = await Utils.downloadJson(url) const members = response.query?.categorymembers ?? [] const imageOverview: string[] = members.map((member) => member.title) if (response.continue === undefined) { // We are done crawling through the category - no continuation in sight return imageOverview } if (maxLoad - imageOverview.length <= 0) { console.debug(`Recursive wikimedia category load stopped for ${categoryName}`) return imageOverview } // We do have a continue token - let's load the next page const recursive = await Wikimedia.GetCategoryContents( categoryName, maxLoad - imageOverview.length, response.continue.cmcontinue ) imageOverview.push(...recursive) return imageOverview } }