Given a Wikimedia Commons description page URL - such as: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
I would like to be able to programmatically retrieve the information in the "Summary" header. (Values for "Artist", "Title", "Date", "Medium", "Dimensions", "Current location", etc.) I believe all this information is in "Template:Artwork". I can't figure out how to get the wikitext/json-looking template data. If I use the API and call: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&titles=File:Van%20Gogh%20-%20Starry%20Night%20-%20Google%20Art%20Project.jpg&iilimit=max&iiprop=timestamp|user|comment|url|size|mime&prop=imageinfo|revisions&rvgeneratexml=&rvprop=ids|timestamp|user|comment|content Then I don't get the information I'm looking for. This shows the most recent revision, and its changes. Unless the most recent revision changed this data, it doesn't show up. To see all the information I'm looking for, it seems I'd have to specify rvlimit=max and go through all the past revisions to figure out which is most current. For example, if I do so and I look at revid 79665032, that includes: "{{Artwork | Artist = {{Creator:Vincent van Gogh}} | . . . | Year = 1889 | Technique = {{Oil on canvas}} | . . ." Isn't there a way to get the current version in whatever format you'd call that - the wikitext/json looking format? In my API call, I can specify rvexpandtemplates which even with only the most recent revision gives me the information I need, but it's largely in HTML tables/divs/etc format rather than wikitext/json/xml/etc. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
