On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Timothy Helck <timothy.helck@gmail.com> wrote:Please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy
> Gentlemen,
>
> Thanks for your previous suggestions.Unfortunately I've been busy with other
> things and I am just getting back to this.
>
> I think I have found a reasonable strategy for searching images. I can use
> this query (siilar to what was suggested by Platonides):
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srnamespace=6&srsearch=%22chartres+cathedral%22&srlimit=20&sroffset=20&prop=imageinfo
>
> Then I can parse the result set and create another query which gets me the
> urls:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Chartres%20cathedral%202881.jpg|File:Chartres%20cathedral%202880.jpg|File:Chartres%20cathedral%202879.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url
>
> However, I am still encountering a problem -- commons.wikimedia.org doesn't
> like requests that don't come from a browser. When I put these queries into
> php I get a 403 error. Is there a url where I can search wikimedia
> programatically?
>
-Liangent
> regards,
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Platonides <platonides@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 30/12/11 21:01, Timothy Helck wrote:
>> > Roan,
>> >
>> > I've looked at search, but it only seems to return names of pages, not
>> > images. Is there a way to make it return images?
>> >
>> > Tim
>>
>> Files are at namespace 6, which wasn't included in the provided query:
>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srnamespace=6&srsearch=%22chartres+cathedral%22
>>
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