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

Lets take Example of Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=57570 to get Main Pic

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prop=pageprops

action=query&pageids=57570&prop=pageprops&format=json

Results Page Data Eg.

{ "pages" : { "57570":{
                    "pageid":57570,
                    "ns":0,
                    "title":"Sachin Tendulkar",
                    "pageprops" : {
                         "defaultsort":"Tendulkar,Sachin",
                         "page_image":"Sachin_at_Castrol_Golden_Spanner_Awards_(crop).jpg",
                         "wikibase_item":"Q9488"
                    }
            }
          }
 }}

We get main Pic file name this result as

** (wikiId).pageprops.page_image = Sachin_at_Castrol_Golden_Spanner_Awards_(crop).jpg**

Now as we have Image file name we will have to make another Api Call to get full image path from file name as follows

action=query&titles=Image:INSERT_EXAMPLE_FILE_NAME_HERE.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url

Eg.

action=query&titles=Image:Sachin_at_Castrol_Golden_Spanner_Awards_(crop).jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url

Returns Array of Image Data having url in it as http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Sachin_at_Castrol_Golden_Spanner_Awards_%28crop%29.jpg