How to get image URL in wiki api?

Question

When I call wiki APIs for accessing image URLs, I get image URLs like this,

File:Ad-tech London 2010 (2).JPG

How to get the correct URL of this file from wiki API?

Answer 1

You can get the proper URLs from an imageinfo query like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Test.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iilimit=50&iiend=2007-12-31T23:59:59Z&iiprop=timestamp|user|url

More info at MediaWiki API Help.

Answer 2

There's little documentation on image/thumbnail URLs besides T153497. You can use Special:FilePath and/or thumb.php:

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ad-tech_London_2010_(2).JPG
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ad-tech_London_2010_(2).JPG?width=200 (to get a thumbnail of 200px width)
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/thumb.php?f=Ad-tech_London_2010_(2).JPG&w=200