The Moodle Metadata API aims to create a programming interface for obtaining structured metadata from Moodle resources, the shape and type of metadata is determined by metadataextractor subplugins, the API itself is the framework for extracting this metadata and exposes the methods necessary to do so and associated scheduled tasks to conduct asynchronous extraction of metadata for resources.
The Metadata API relies on subplugins of various types to populate metadata for consumption by Moodle users, so far this includes the following subplugin types:
metadataextractor: Metadata extractors are plugins which extract metadata from Moodle resources for use by the Metadata API, without an installed and enabled metadata extractor subplugin, no metadata can be populated by Moodle.
For developers, to create a metadataextractor plugin, refer to the README in /extractor directory.
API methods are static methods attached to the base class tool_metadata\api and can be called as follows: \tool_metadata\api::extract_metadata($resourceinstance, $resourcetype, $extractor)
See \classes\api method documentation for API method explanations.
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