Accessing main picture of wikipedia page by API

Question

Is there any way I can access the thumbnail picture of any wikipedia page by using an API? I mean the image on the top right side in box. Is there any APIs for that?

Answer 1

Way 1: You can try some query like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&limit=5&format=xml&search=italy&namespace=0

in the response, you can see the Image tag.

Italy national rugby union team

The Italy national rugby union team represent the nation of Italy in the sport of rugby union.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy_national_rugby_union_team

Way 2: use query http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=render&title=italy

then you can get a raw html code, you can get the image use something like PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net

I have no time write it to you. just give you some advice, thanks.