On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Timothy Helck <timothy.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >
Please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > -Liangent _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
