2009/7/2 shafqat <[email protected]>: > > I have spent a lot of time in the forum and now have a working query that > gets me all the information I need (a list of images plus other info). > However, I need to also get the image author so that I can have the proper > attribution. Have tried everything but cannot get that piece of data. Am I > missing something? > > This is the query that I am using to get the images: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=images&prop=images|imageinfo&gimlimit=50&iiprop=url|size|comment&format=xml&iiurlwidth=240&titles=Barack%20Obama > > As an example, for this file > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BarackObama2005portrait.jpg, I would > want to get back the text "United States Senate", which is listed right next > to the Author field. > It's right there in the wikitext: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:BarackObama2005portrait.jpg&action=edit . Grab the wikitext of the file description page through prop=revisions and find the attribution in it.
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