diff --git a/licenses/add_license_info.py b/licenses/add_license_info.py
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+# this will ingest GitHub REST API output to a list
+# recovering the information
+
+# command that do the magic:
+#curl -L  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json"   -H "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN"   -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28"   https://api.github.com/repos/SINGROUP/SOAPLite/license | jq  '.license|{spdx_id}'
+
+# python traduction:
+import requests
+import argparse
+import json
+
+parser=argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Script to ingest licences')
+
+parser.add_argument('--source', help='Project available in GitHub,pypi,cran or user that push the license')
+parser.add_argument('project', help='Project')
+parser.add_argument('--manual',required=False)
+args=parser.parse_args()
+
+def github(source):
+    """
+    Function that gets spdx_id from github using his API
+    """
+    repo=source.removeprefix('github:')
+    url="https://api.github.com/repos/"+repo+"/license"
+    headers = {
+        "Accept": "application/vnd.github+json",
+        "Authorization" : "Bearer TOKEN",
+        "X-GitHub-Api-Version": "2022-11-28",
+    }
+    
+    r=requests.get(url, headers=headers)
+    if r.status_code != 200:
+        return "not found"
+    else:
+        return(r.json()['license']['spdx_id'])
+
+def pypi(project):
+    """
+    Function that retrives licence from PiPy
+    """
+    url = "https://pypi.org/pypi/"
+    r = requests.get(url + project  + "/json")
+    if r.status_code != 200:
+        return "not found"
+    else:
+        return(r.json()['info']['license'])
+
+def cran(project):
+    """
+    Function that retrieves licence from CRAN
+    """
+    url = "http://crandb.r-pkg.org/"
+    r = requests.get(url + project)
+    if r.status_code != 200:
+        return "not found"
+    else:
+        return(r.json()['License'])
+
+def repology(project):
+    url="https://repology.org//api/v1/"
+    r = requests.get(url + project).json()
+    if r.status_code != 200:
+        return "not found"
+    else:
+        return(r['License'])
+
+def ecosysteDotms_pypi(project):
+    """
+    Function that retrieves license info from ecosystem.ms for pipy packages
+    """
+    url = "https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/"
+    r = requests.get(url + project)
+    if r.status_code != 200:
+        return "not found"
+    else:
+        return(r.json()['licenses'])
+def ecosysteDotms_github(source):
+    """
+    Function that retrieves license info from ecosystem.ms for github repos
+    """
+    repo=source.removeprefix('github:')
+    url= "https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/"
+    r = requests.get(url + repo)
+    if r.status_code != 200:
+        return "not found"
+    else:
+        return(r.json()['license'])
+
+def licenseInfo(project):
+    """
+    Function that create the project info
+    """
+    if args.source=='pypi': 
+        lic=ecosysteDotms_pypi(project)
+#        lic=pypi(project)
+    elif "github" in args.source:
+        lic=ecosysteDotms_github(args.source)
+#        lic=github(args.source)
+    elif args.manual:
+        lic=args.manual
+    
+    info=[("license",lic), ("source",args.source)]
+    return info
+
+def updateJson(project,info):
+    """
+    Function that updates json file
+    """
+    with open('licenses.json','r') as licDict:
+        licenses=json.loads(licDict.read())
+    
+    if project in licenses.keys():
+        print('project in licenses.json')
+    else: 
+        print('we do not have the license, adding into licenses.json')
+        licenses[project]=dict(info)
+        licJson=json.dumps(licenses, indent=4)
+
+        with open('licenses.json','w') as licFile:
+            licFile.write(licJson)
+
+def main():
+    project=args.project
+    info=licenseInfo(project)
+    updateJson(project,info)
+
+main()