I know how to get all images for some given titles using the MediaWiki API, and I've been using it like this (all images on the "Steve Jobs" and "Spider" articles):
However, the images are given in this format:
...
images: [
{
ns: 6,
title: "File:A garden spider in Chennai.JPG"
},
{
ns: 6,
title: "File:Agelenidae labyrinthica.JPG"
},
{
ns: 6,
title: "File:Ant Mimic Spider.jpg"
}, ...
Which sucks because I don't have much use for the titles. I know I can then just query for the urls of the images using the titles like this:
but this is sort of expensive programatically because I have to store all the titles in an array, then make a string of all the titles seperated by the | character, and then I have to go to that URL. Is there a better way to do this?
Using the sandbox might help you figure it out.
I want a way to query the MediaWiki API to get all the URLs of all the images, from an array of Article subjects (i.e. "Steve_Jobs|Spider|Cat").
You can use prop=images as a generator and feed it to prop=imageinfo. Something like:
