That's great, thank you so much for the help!
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Erik Bernhardson <ebernhardson(a)wikimedia.org
wrote:
> I'm not sure if it's intentional, but it looks like the web ui defaults to
> including the file namespace in search, where the api does not. Getting the
> results for files from api can be done by specifying the namespace you want:
>
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=
> search&srsearch=dave%20vanian&utf8=&srnamespace=6
>
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Gheorghe Postelnicu <
> gheorghe.postelnicu(a)gmail.com
wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> First, many thanks for maintaining this API!
>>
>> I am writing as I am having trouble using the full text search API on
>> Commons. Namely, I would like to get the following list back via the API:
>>
>>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Sear
>> ch&profile=images&search=dave+vanian&fulltext=1
>>
>> however the full text search doesn't produce the same results when using
>> the API:
>>
>>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=se
>> arch&srsearch=dave%20vanian&utf8=
>>
>> A suggestion to nudge me in the right direction would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for the help.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Gheorghe
>>
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