Awesome, thanks! I was not expecting that something with missing: true will fetch any properties. But it makes sense now.
2018-01-26 19:29 GMT+02:00 Bartosz Dziewoński <matma....@gmail.com>: > On 2018-01-26 09:16, Victor Shepelev wrote: > >> Is there a way to tell actually non-existent files from files that are >> included from commons, through API? Or "just check on commons, in case it >> is there" is the only way? >> > > You can add &prop=imageinfo to the query: > > Files that are loaded from Commons will have the property > `"imagerepository": "shared"`: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File: > Logo_of_the_Verkhovna_Rada_of_Ukraine.svg&prop=imageinfo > > Files that are uploaded locally will have `"imagerepository": "local"`: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File: > Example.jpg&prop=imageinfo > > Files that are actually missing will have `"imagerepository": ""`: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File: > Does%20not%20exist%20blahblahblah.svg&prop=imageinfo > > prop=imageinfo also provides some other information about the files, if > you add additional options. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki > /API:Imageinfo . > > > -- > Bartosz Dziewoński > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >
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