> > The first three we can get from pretty much either API, or extract
>> directly from
>> > a dump file. The latter is eluding us though, for two reasons. One is
>> that a
>> > file, like 30C3_Commons_Machinery_2.jpg, is actually in the /b/ba/
>> directory -
>> > but where this /b/ba/ comes from (a hash?) is unclear to us now, and
>> it's not
>> > something we find in the dumps - though we can get it from one of the
>> APIs.
>>
>
> Yes, /b/ba ist based on the first two digits of the MD5 hash of the title:
>
> md5( "30C3_Commons_Machinery_2.jpg" ) -> ba253c78d894a80788940a3ca765debb
>
> But this is "arcane knowledge" which nobody should really rely on. The
> canonical
> way would be to use
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Redirect/file/30C3_Commons_Machinery_2.jpg
>
> Which generates a redirect to
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/30C3_Commons_Machinery_2.jpg
>
> To get a thumbnail, you can directly manipulate that URL, by inserting
> "thumb/"
> and the desired size in the correct location (maybe Special:Redirect can
> do that
> for you, but I do not know how):
>
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/30C3_Commons_Machinery_2.jpg/640px-30C3_Commons_Machinery_2.jpg
>

If I am not mistaken you can use thumb.php to get the needed thumb?
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/thumb.php?f=Example.jpg&width=100>

(That’s what I used in my CommonsDownloader [1])

[1] <
https://github.com/Commonists/CommonsDownloader/blob/master/commonsdownloader/thumbnaildownload.py
>

Hope that helps,
-- 
Jean-Frédéric
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