https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61956
Bug ID: 61956
Summary: Better API for Picture of the Day
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: API
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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I'm trying to create a Grilo[1] source for the Wiki Commons Picture of the day.
Ideally, the API server side would look at bit like the one used by the
Guardian:
http://explorer.content.guardianapis.com/#/search?tag=world%2Fseries%2Feyewitness%2Ctype%2Fpicture&show-fields=all
This shows me separate fields for each interesting bits of metadata (title,
author, publication date, thumbnail URL, etc.)
In contrast to the Wikimedia API which requires me to do something like:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=expandtemplates&format=json&text=%3Citem%3E%3Cfilename%3E%7B%7BTemplate%3APotd%2F2014-02-03%7D%7D%3C%2Ffilename%3E%20%3Ctitle%3E%7B%7BTemplate%3APotd%2F2014-02-03_(en)%7D%7D%3C%2Ftitle%3E%3C%2Fitem%3E%20%3Citem%3E%3Cfilename%3E%7B%7BTemplate%3APotd%2F2014-02-02%7D%7D%3C%2Ffilename%3E%20%3Ctitle%3E%7B%7BTemplate%3APotd%2F2014-02-02_(en)%7D%7D%3C%2Ftitle%3E%3C%2Fitem%3E
And parse the unstructured items by hand to get the titles, and further:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&prop=imageinfo&format=json&iiprop=timestamp%7Cuser%7Cuserid%7Ccomment%7Cparsedcomment%7Ccanonicaltitle%7Curl%7Csize%7Cdimensions%7Csha1%7Cmime%7Cthumbmime%7Cmediatype%7Cmetadata%7Ccommonmetadata%7Cextmetadata%7Carchivename%7Cbitdepth%7Cuploadwarning&iilimit=1&titles=File%3ANickel_electrolytic_and_1cm3_cube.jpg
To get the thumbnail and file URLs (I haven't figured out how to get those
details for multiple files yet).
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