Accessing record_image via API?

Omeka Classic Items and Collections
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I’m trying to pull data from our public Omeka (v2.5.0) site to display on our general public site.

I can access the API from /api and navigate to /api/collections … What I’d like to be able to get is:

  • item title (ok)
  • item public URL
  • item public record_image (the related image for the record, whether it be collection, item, or exhibit)

In my specific case I’m trying to showcase currently featured exhibits, but as that’s a plugin and not a core feature I’d understand if that is not possible – but hopefully collection data would be?

Is this currently possible?

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This is not possible, but you can get the first image of the item, then get the url. The public url for an item is just the base url + /items/show/#id. For an image (the file itself), this is base url + /files/[original|fullsize|thumbnails|square_thumbnails]/[storage_name].

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Thanks for the reply, Daniel!

While waiting for a reply (as I thought it was not possible), I took a slightly different route and looked at the Exhibit plugin and extending the exposed data sets from the API and supplied a pull request. This (in)directly provides the ability for this behavior. We’ll see if it’s accepted or not though. (From that data point I can then access the file record from the API using the :id filtering.)