How to get image URL in wiki api?

Question

When I call wiki APIs for accessing image URLs, I get image URLs like this,

File:Ad-tech London 2010 (2).JPG

How to get the correct URL of this file from wiki API?

Capapie

Which is the API query you used that returned said "URL"? You might be able to use the current module as a generator and get imageinfo within the same query. – Pucker

Answer 1

There's little documentation on image/thumbnail URLs besides T153497. You can use Special:FilePath and/or thumb.php:

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ad-tech_London_2010_(2).JPG
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ad-tech_London_2010_(2).JPG?width=200 (to get a thumbnail of 200px width)
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/thumb.php?f=Ad-tech_London_2010_(2).JPG&w=200

Penang

Thanks for that. There is a bit of a documentation that I could find once you gave the direction: mediawiki.org/wiki/… – Nibbs

Answer 2

You can get the proper URLs from an imageinfo query like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Test.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iilimit=50&iiend=2007-12-31T23:59:59Z&iiprop=timestamp|user|url

More info at MediaWiki API Help.

Dareen