On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Timothy Helck timothy.helck@gmail.com wrote:
Basically, I would like to replicate the functionality of the commons.wikimedia.org search page. Ideally I would like to be able to get a Category listing (ex. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chartres_Cathedral) or a true search results (ex. http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=%...), but at this point I would be happy with either.
The search results are exposed through the API: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srs... . Unfortunately we don't really have image keywords or anything like that, so searching for images is not as simple as it probably should be. But it's probably been done before.
Roan