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 <platonides@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


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