Thanks, would that mean I would need to make 2 calls?
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[mailto:mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Alex Monk
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 9:56 AM
To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Wikipedia image
You did actually specify a thumbnail link in your previous email so I assumed that would
be okay. It should be possible to take the pageimage value and use a query like
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url&titles=File:Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg>
&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url&titles=File:Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg to
get the URL you want.
On 22 January 2015 at 17:42, practikalmind <practikalmind(a)gmail.com
<mailto:practikalmind@gmail.com> > wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Steve%20Jobs&prop=pageimages>
&titles=Steve%20Jobs&prop=pageimages
thanks, but I get the thumbnail image
<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg/50px-Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg>
as opposed to the bigger image on the Steve Jobs wikipedia page. Please let me know if
there is a way to get the bigger image.
"warnings": {
"query": {
"*": "Formatting of continuation data will be changing soon. To
continue using the current formatting, use the 'rawcontinue' parameter. To begin
using the new format, pass an empty string for 'continue' in the initial
query."
}
},
"query": {
"pages": {
"7412236": {
"pageid": 7412236,
"ns": 0,
"title": "Steve Jobs",
"thumbnail": {
"source":
"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg/50px-Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 49
},
"pageimage": "Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg"
}
}
}
}
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<mailto:mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org> ] On Behalf Of Alex Monk
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 7:26 AM
To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Wikipedia image
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages does this
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageimages&titles=Steve_Jobs>
&prop=pageimages&titles=Steve_Jobs
On 22 January 2015 at 15:23, practikalmind <practikalmind(a)gmail.com
<mailto:practikalmind@gmail.com> > wrote:
Hi,
What is the best way to get the main image of a wiki page? For example, I would like to
retrieve
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Steve_Jobs_Headsho…
for the Steve Jobs wiki page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs> .
thanks
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