Sorry, the example query I provided was incorrect. Use this instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&format=jsonfm&iiprop=extmetadata&iilimit=10&titles=File%3ACommon%20Kingfisher%20Alcedo%20atthis.jpg
Thanks, Dan On 8 December 2014 at 11:29, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Greetings, Multimedia Team! > > *Background:* The Mobile Apps Team is working on a restyling of the way > content the first fold of content is presented in the Wikipedia app. You > can see this image <http://i.imgur.com/dxqfJKd.png> to see what this > looks like. Having a high-resolution image so prominently at the top of the > page will likely drive a lot of clicks, so we're working on a lightweight > image viewer to deal with file pages, which are poorly styled monstrosities > on the mobile app. We're going to use the CommonsMetadata API to help us > out. :-) > > *Problem:* The CommonsMetadata API can sometimes return HTML [1]. Having > HTML in the API response is a bit problematic for us. Native apps make next > to no use of HTML when creating links or layouts, so we have to strip the > HTML from every API response, lest it be displayed as plaintext to the > user. In the short term this is fine, we can strip it and throw the > information away. But in the long run it'd be better if the API didn't > return HTML. > > *Our ask: *Can the CommonsMetadata API please not return HTML in its > responses? :-) > > Thanks, > Dan > > [1]: Run this query > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&format=xml&iiprop=extmetadata&iilimit=10&titles=File%3ACommon%20Kingfisher%20Alcedo%20atthis.jpg.>, > and look at "artist" key. The API response has an HTML link in it. > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps > Wikimedia Foundation > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation
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