No, it's not about paging in your app, it's about paging of the API results. [1]
In the case of this specific query, it's enough just to raise the
limit by adding imlimit=max to the query [2],
but in general, you should specify the limit and also follow continue.
Petr Onderka
User:Svick
[1]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries
[2]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=images&pageids…
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:25 PM, sherry.ummen(a)gmail.com
<sherry.ummen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
>
> I have not decided yet whether to do any paging logic in my app (if thats
> what you are asking).
>
> But I want to get the whole list of images from all the pages in the query
> and then I need to do some filtration.
>
> -Sherry
>
> On Mon, 2 May 2016 at 15:01 <mediawiki-api-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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>> hello,
>>
>> if i run following query :
>>
>>
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=images&pageids…
>>
>> I do not get images for all the pageids. I am not sure what is worn in
>> this
>> query.
>>
>> If I use single pageid then I get expected result.
>>
>> Please suggest or help!
>>
>> -Sherry
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