Wikipedia api fulltext search to return articles with title, snippet and image

Question

I've been looking for a way to query the wikipedia api based on a search string for a list of articles with the following properties:

• Title
• Snippet/Description
• One or more images related to the article.

I also have to make the query using jsonp.

I've tried using the list=search parameter

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&prop=images&format=json&srsearch=test&srnamespace=0&srprop=snippet&srlimit=10&imlimit=1

But it seems to ignore the prop=images, I've also tried variations using the prop=imageinfo and prop=pageimages. But they all give me the same result as just using the list=search.

I've also tried action=opensearch

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=test&limit=10&format=xml

Which gives me exactly what I want when i set format=xml, but returns a simple array of page titles when using format=json and therefore fails because of the jsonp requirement.

Is there another approach to doing this? I'd really like to solve this in a single request rather than make the first search request and then a second request for the images using titles=x|y|z

Answer 1

As Bergi suggested, using generators is the way to go here. Specifically what I would do:

• use list=search as a generator, to get the list of articles
• use prop=pageimages to get a representative image for each article
• use prop=extracts to get a description for each article

The whole query could look like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&generator=search&gsrnamespace=0&gsrsearch=test&gsrlimit=10&prop=pageimages|extracts&pilimit=max&exintro&explaintext&exsentences=1&exlimit=max