On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Siteshwar Vashisht <sitesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Right now I'm using this query to fetch image information: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Navenby.jpg&prop=imageinfo&format=xml&iiprop=timestamp|url|comment|size|dimensions > > but iiprop does not have any description parameter. How can I fetch image > description from Wikimedia Commons? Like this one: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navenby.jpg Get the contents of the description page, like so:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Navenby.jpg&prop=revisions&rvprop=content Of course that does require that you figure out whether the file is on Commons or on the local wiki, but you can tell by imagerepository="shared" in the imageinfo result. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
