Gentlemen, Thanks for your previous suggestions.Unfortunately I've been busy with other things and I am just getting back to this.
I think I have found a reasonable strategy for searching images. I can use this query (siilar to what was suggested by Platonides): https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srnamespace=6&srsearch=%22chartres+cathedral%22&srlimit=20&sroffset=20&prop=imageinfo Then I can parse the result set and create another query which gets me the urls: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Chartres%20cathedral%202881.jpg|File:Chartres%20cathedral%202880.jpg|File:Chartres%20cathedral%202879.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url However, I am still encountering a problem -- commons.wikimedia.org doesn't like requests that don't come from a browser. When I put these queries into php I get a 403 error. Is there a url where I can search wikimedia programatically? regards, Tim On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30/12/11 21:01, Timothy Helck wrote: > > Roan, > > > > I've looked at search, but it only seems to return names of pages, not > > images. Is there a way to make it return images? > > > > Tim > > Files are at namespace 6, which wasn't included in the provided query: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srnamespace=6&srsearch=%22chartres+cathedral%22 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >
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