Awesome, thanks! I was not expecting that something with missing: true will fetch any properties. But it makes sense now.
2018-01-26 19:29 GMT+02:00 Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.com:
On 2018-01-26 09:16, Victor Shepelev wrote:
Is there a way to tell actually non-existent files from files that are included from commons, through API? Or "just check on commons, in case it is there" is the only way?
You can add &prop=imageinfo to the query:
Files that are loaded from Commons will have the property `"imagerepository": "shared"`: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File: Logo_of_the_Verkhovna_Rada_of_Ukraine.svg&prop=imageinfo
Files that are uploaded locally will have `"imagerepository": "local"`: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File: Example.jpg&prop=imageinfo
Files that are actually missing will have `"imagerepository": ""`: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File: Does%20not%20exist%20blahblahblah.svg&prop=imageinfo
prop=imageinfo also provides some other information about the files, if you add additional options. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki /API:Imageinfo .
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