Thank you. I will make use of that over the weekend to download some of the WLM images for the jury to review.
Regards Michael On 18 Oct 2013, at 17:48, Fæ wrote: > On 18/10/2013, Michael Maggs <[email protected]> wrote: >> So far as I can see, getting the file via the API requires knowledge of the >> URL, which itself means calculating an md5 hash on the image name. In >> Applescript, this seems to work, so long as there are no odd characters, but > > No need for md5 hash calculations :-) > > In python the call to fileUrl() actually 'translates' the Commons > image page name into the URL for the full size image file to download > without having to provide any other information. Behind the scenes > this actually uses the API to call a "query" returning "imageinfo". > > You may find a real example of API calls useful. Starting with the > image title "Gay.jpg" [1] we can ask the API to tell us its properties > by creating a call to API query [2], within the results (which you > could ask for as xml or JSON) this returns us the URL link to the full > sized image file which you can download. [3] > > Rather than full size, you can request a particular size, such as with > a width of 100px [4]. In my script to query tineye.com to check for > matches to mobile images as possible copyright violations, I only used > thumbnails of width 300px, it saved a lot of bandwidth. :-) > > 1. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gay.jpg > 2. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Gay.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url > 3. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Gay.jpg > 4. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Gay.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url&iiurlwidth=100 > > I would imagine that an introductory workshop should cover the basics > of how to use the API and how to find parameters in the manual, this > would be particularly useful for folks more comfortable programming in > other languages that Python, or using other tools, and would still use > all the features of the API to do interesting stuff. > > Fae > -- > [email protected] http://j.mp/faewm _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
