[Mediawiki-api] Retrieving image URLs?
VasilievVV
vasilvv at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 18:27:09 UTC 2008
Kelly Jones writes:
> When I retrieve this page:
>
> http://wiki.lspace.org/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Image:Cover_The_Last_Hero.jpg&rvprop=timestamp|content&format=xml
>
> I get this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><api><query><normalized><n
> from="Image:Cover_The_Last_Hero.jpg" to="Image:Cover The Last
> Hero.jpg" /></normalized><pages><page pageid="4963" ns="6"
> title="Image:Cover The Last
> Hero.jpg"><revisions><revtimestamp="2008-01-20T13:54:58Z">Illustrated
> by Paul Kidby
>
> In other words, even though I requested the 'content' of the page, I
> don't get the URL to the image itself.
>
> By visiting the page normally:
>
> http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Image:Cover_The_Last_Hero.jpg
>
> I learned that the image URL is
> "http://wiki.lspace.org/uploads/4/4e/Cover_The_Last_Hero.jpg".
>
> Is there any way to obtain that URL using the Mediawiki API?
>
You should user prop=imageinfo
--VasilievVV
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