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

Like Anuraj mentioned, the pageimages parameter is it. Look at the following url that'll bring about some nifty stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info|extracts|pageimages|images&inprop=url&exsentences=1&titles=india

Her are some interesting parameters:

• The two parameters extracts and exsentences gives you a short description you can use. (exsentences is the number of sentences you want to include in the excerpt)
• The info and the inprop=url parameters gives you the url of the page
• The prop property has multiple parameters separated by a bar symbol
• And if you insert the format=json in there, it is even better