Is it possible to download images from Wikipedia with MediaWiki API?
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No, it is not possible to get the images via the API. Images in a MediaWiki are stored just in folders, not in a database and are not delivered dynamically (more information on that in the Manual:Image administration).
However, you can retrieve the URLs of those image files via the API. For example see the API:Allimages list or imageinfo property querymodules. Then you can download the files from those URLs with your favourite tool (
curl,wget, whatever).If your question is about downloading all images from Wikipedia, meta:data dumps would be a good start. You also may ask on the data-dump mailing list on how to sync with a repository like Wikimedia Commons.