Hi vjkumar,
On 06-Sep-2012, at 6:57 PM, vjkumar wrote:
I am able to construct the URL for the image as http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethiopian_-_Coin_Depicting_an_Anonymo....
However I would like to get the thumbnail url, Title and the description for the images in this category with a query and get the output in XML or JSON format . Is it possible to construct such a query?
Yup! You need to use the 'imageinfo' API call (documentation available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties#imageinfo_.2F_ii). Try this URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Ethiopia... (here's the tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/8tgdjoc)
You can adjust iiurlwidth to the width of the thumbnail you need. This will give you the thumbnail URL and title in the XML it emits; to get the description, you will need to read the page content itself, via a http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties#revisions_.2F_rv request (e.g. http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&t...) (here's the tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/9fbg8q4)
Hope that helps!
cheers, Gaurav (User:Gaurav)