On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Is there a nice way to obtain the first image on a page?
>
> My current solution works, but is not very nice:
> * get the images on the page via
> api.php?action=query&prop=images&titles=pagename
> * get the page contest via index.php?title=pagename&action=raw
> * find the first occurrence of one of the image names obtained in the API
> request
>
>
The question is what to call "first". First images on many pages are icons
from maintenance templates, you know:) Or the first image in page text is
displayed at the bottom of the page with CSS. Or it may be generated by
template and not be visible in wikitext.


-- 
Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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