Fetching Images of places from wikipedia - php

Question

I'm Using the following code to fetch images from wikipedia api but at the moment it is giving me random images on that keyword like if I search "spain " it will give me random images with word spain but I need the images of places in spain like we get in wikipedia.
Can any one help me with that?
<form action="" method="get">
<input type="text" name="search">
<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>
<?php
if(#$_GET['search']){
function get_wiki_image( $search, $limit) {
$streamContext = array(
"ssl" => array(
"verify_peer" => false,
"verify_peer_name" => false,
),
);
$url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/';
$url .= '/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=allimages&aifrom=' . $search . '&ailimit=' . $limit;
$context = stream_context_create($streamContext);
if(FALSE === ($content = #file_get_contents($url, false,$context)) ) {
return false;
} else {
$data = json_decode($content,true);
$ret = array();
foreach($data['query']['allimages'] as $img) {
$ret[] = $img['url'];
}
return $ret;
}
}
$search = ucwords($_GET['search']);
$images = get_wiki_image($search,500);
foreach($images as $img) {
echo "<img src='{$img}' height='50' width='50'>";
}
}
?>

Answer 1

You can use the PageImages API for this purpose. Generally, it returns you the first image in an article, however, depending on the configurations of Wikipedia it might return a different image in some cases.
To get for example the image of the "Barcelona" article, call https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageimages&titles=Barcelona&piprop=original.
If you need the picture in a certain size, you can also call https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageimages&titles=Barcelona&pithumbsize=250.