Omid, See this thread from the mailing list archives for a summary of what we know about image (and audio file) URLs in Wikipedia: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=82593ac00801310402g555e0206h46f1b46a9666ff82%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=dbpedia-discussion
Richard On 4 Mar 2008, at 05:32, Omid Rouhani wrote: > The DBPedia dataset "Images" has mappings from wikipedia ids to the > actual URL where the image can be downloaded. > > Example: > <http://dbpedia.org/resource/%22Buzz%21%21%22_The_Movie> > <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/depiction> > <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/z_BTM.jpg/200px-z_BTM.jpg > > > > . > > > However, many of the images have moved around and no longer exist. > What is the proper way if I want to download (and locally) cache all > (or at least a large number of) images from Wikipedia? > > I have downloaded the full Wikipedia dump > "enwiki-20080103-pages-articles.xml.bz2" which do contain all image > names (for example, [[Image:Anarchy-symbol.svg|....]]"). > But that piece does not give me the actual URL to the image? > What is the proper way to download all images? I could always call > "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Anarchy-symbol.svg"; for each image > and from there get the actual URL (which in this case happens to be > "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Anarchy-symbol.svg/256px-Anarchy-symbol.svg.png > > ") > and download that image from the URL. > > This would require two calls to Wikipedia for each image I want to > download (one to get the URL, and another to get the image). Is there > anyway I can do this without putting such stress to their servers? > It would be good if at least there was a way to get all URLs > automatically so I do not have to do two calls but only one call per > image. > > I have by the way downloaded the "enwiki-20080103-image.sql.gz" > dataset, but it only contains meta data about the images, not the URLs > so I can fetch them. > Since DBPedias "Image" dataset contains all URLs I assume there is > someway to obtain all the URLs in a batch. Or has the DBPedia team > also fetched the URLs by doing one call per image to > "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:XXXXXX";? > > > Thanks > /Omid > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
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