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I made canweimage.com. It can't replace all the features of Google, but it can fit the bill if you just need a basic search of Creative Commons.
by projproj 4y ago
I made canweimage.com. It can't replace all the features of Google, but it can fit the bill if you just need a basic search of Creative Commons.
- an1sotropy 4y agoThanks! But just to be clear, it isn’t somehow searching all things under a CC license, but just things within wikimedia right?
- input_sh 4y agoLast time I checked, Creative Commons had their own search for things under their licenses. But now apparently that project got transferred to WordPress and is now named Openverse: https://wordpress.org/openverse/?referrer=creativecommons.org https://wordpress.org/openverse/?referrer=creativecommons.or... Anyways, I'd argue that's the most comprehensive database of CC-licensed works.
- an1sotropy 4y agoThanks for this. Also, I just checked that flickr.com still allows you to filter their searches by license.
- freediver 4y agoThis looks great. Care to share the API call used for searhing?
- projproj 4y agohttps://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrnamespace=6&gsrsearch=<url-encoded https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generat... search term here>&format=json (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query for reference) edit: formatting
- freediver 4y agoAmazing! I notice a slight difference between https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrnamespace=6&gsrsearch=cat https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generat... and searching for 'cat' on canweimage.com Is there some query processing needed?
- projproj 4y agoI use these additional parameters: `&gsrlimit=25&prop=imageinfo|pageimages&iiprop=url|size`. I think it just changes how much and what type of data is returned, but maybe that could be the difference?