How to get the link to a wikimedia commons image?

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Querying Simple Minds (using: http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/b10bbbfc-cf9e-42e0-be17-e2c3e1d2600d?inc=url-rels), the following is part of the output:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Fabs.JPG

Iā€™d be interested in getting the URL for the actual image (in this case: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Simple_minds_live.jpg) ā€“ the actual metabrainz page for Simple Minds does this anyways (see https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f41490ce-fe39-435d-86c0-ab5ce098b423/relationships).

How do I do this translation (if any), or is there an API call to wikimedia commons in which the target id is used?

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Roy

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There is an API call you can make to get a JSON result including the URL to the actual image. I implemented this a while back for the MB artist boxes shown in this forum, see the code at https://github.com/phw/discourse-musicbrainz-onebox/blob/master/engine/wikimedia.rb

And it is also documented somewhere on the Wikipedia pages of course.

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MusicBrainz itself uses this URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url&redirects&format=json&iiurlwidth=250&titles=File:The_Fabs.JPG