example calling mediawiki api via mwclient to make thumbnails and then to get semantic data

example_api_calls.py

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+# https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
+# https://mwclient.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
+
+import mwclient
+from mwclient import Site
+from secrets import BOTPASSWORD
+import json
+
+site = Site("hub.xpub.nl", path="/sandbox/itchwiki/")
+site.login("Bot", BOTPASSWORD)
+
+for i in site.allimages():
+    # Use imageinfo to request/create a thumbnail
+    # NB: uses i.name as "titles" (the api call can take a list of titles)
+    #     but here it just uses one.
+    # NB: iiurlwidth specifies a max width for the resulting thumbnail
+    #     check out the API doc for all the options
+    #     https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Imageinfo
+    r = site.api("query", prop="imageinfo", titles=i.name, iiprop="url", iiurlwidth="80", formatversion=2)
+    iinfo = r['query']['pages'][0]['imageinfo'][0]
+    thumburl = iinfo['thumburl']
+    fullsizeurl = iinfo['url']
+    filepageurl = iinfo['descriptionurl']
+    print ("""
+        <a href="{0}"><img src="{1}"></a>
+""".format(filepageurl, thumburl))
+    # print (i.name, thumburl, fullsizeurl, filepageurl)
+
+
+    # NOW do an "ASK" api call to get semantic meta data from the same image
+    # This query is the "code" that you get from the "Semantic Ask" page
+    # Except you need to remove the {{#ask:  and the }} at the end.
+
+    ask_query = """[[{0}]]
+ |?Title
+ |?Date
+ |?Creator
+ |?Format
+ |?Organization
+ |?Part
+ |?Partof
+ |?Event
+ |?Topic
+ |?Language
+ |format=json
+ |limit=50
+ |offset=0
+ |link=all
+ |sort=
+ |order=asc
+""".format(i.name)
+    # print ("Made an ASK query", ask_query)
+    ask_result = r = site.api("ask", query=ask_query)
+    # print (json.dumps(ask_result, indent=2))
+    image_metadata = ask_result['query']['results'][i.name]["printouts"]
+    print (json.dumps(image_metadata, indent=2))
+
+# Calling the api to make/give a thumbnail of a particular image
+# https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbox/itchwiki/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url&iiurlwidth=320&titles=File:VF250Commitment-18.jpg
+# site.api()
+# Magic URL to generate and get the URL of a thumbnail of an image
+# https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbox/itchwiki/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url&iiurlwidth=640&titles=File:VF250Commitment-18.jpg