# SiteCheck Web Intel – Wikimedia Commons Image Search

> SiteCheck Web Intel – Wikimedia Commons Image Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.webintel-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-24).

Searches Wikimedia Commons for freely-licensed images and returns file metadata including title, direct image URL, size, MIME type, license, author, and description — no image bytes returned.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.webintel-api.workers.dev/api/search/wikimedia-commons-image?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-24
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-web-intel-wikimedia-commons-image-search-28a67243
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_pqZE3lzLRm4J6uJAfeoJo

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability sitecheck-web-intel-wikimedia-commons-image-search-28a67243
```

Example prompt: Can you search Wikimedia Commons for freely-licensed images of the Eiffel Tower and give me up to 8 results with their direct URLs, licenses, and authors?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need metadata for freely-licensed images from Wikimedia Commons specifically — including license, author, and direct URL — without needing to download the actual image bytes. It is ideal for legal attribution workflows, content pipelines requiring open-licensed media, or quickly finding direct image URLs for a topic. Prefer over general web image search when license compliance and attribution metadata are required.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for an obscure or misspelled query — returns empty result set
- Query exceeds 200 characters — rejected with validation error
- Limit parameter outside 1–20 range — may default or return error
- Wikimedia API rate limits or downtime — may return 5xx or timeout
- Some files may have incomplete metadata (missing author or license) depending on how they were uploaded

## How this service works

Wikimedia Commons image search (MediaWiki API, public, no key): file title, direct image URL, size, MIME type, license, author and description for free-licensed files. Returns file metadata only, not image bytes.

## Output

Returns a list of up to 20 file metadata records per query, each containing: file title, direct image URL (for embedding or download), file size in bytes, MIME type (e.g. image/jpeg), license identifier, author attribution, and a short description. Does not return actual image bytes.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Search words (1 to 200 characters)"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "How many images, 1 to 20 (default 5)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-web-intel-wikimedia-commons-image-search-28a67243/health.json
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