Getting links to wikipedia images

Question

I'm trying to extract the links to all the images in the wikipedia, without losing the image names and probably the alt tags. I got to know from

that I could get it by querying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:filename.jpg However, to do this I need to get all the filenames of the images. Any clues?

Thanks!

I've got freebase working to get me images using the GUID, however certain topics in freebase has no images. So, that's a problem unlike wikipedia. — madCode, Jun 04 '12 at 20:00
I think this will help.. http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/WEX/Documentation#Tables just reading it! — madCode, Jun 04 '12 at 20:02
Do you need the images on a given page? The images in the infobox on a given page? All the images on Wikipedia? — Tgr, Jun 05 '12 at 06:39
are you sure you want all those images?? there are too many of them — nischayn22, Jun 05 '12 at 07:04

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '12 at 16:52

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this gives the list of all image urls and file names also in the page

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=World&generator=images&gimlimit=10&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url|dimensions|mime&format=json

change the title= part

answered Jun 06 '12 at 16:52

boltsfrombluesky

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How come it doesn't give me relevant results? Try.. title=google – madCode Jun 07 '12 at 20:54
Did you have resolve this problem? Why there are so much images useless? – sparkle Dec 17 '12 at 23:32
@madCode https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=google&generator=images&gimlimit=10&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url|dimensions|mime&format=json seems to work fine – reducing activity Jan 14 '18 at 16:45

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