image querying from within the frontend

frontend/lib/utils/load_landmark_image.dart

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+import 'dart:developer';
+
+import 'package:dio/dio.dart';
+import 'package:fuzzywuzzy/fuzzywuzzy.dart';
+import 'dart:convert';
+
+import 'package:fuzzywuzzy/model/extracted_result.dart';
+
+const String baseUrl = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
+final Dio dio = Dio();
+
+Future<int?> bestPageMatch(String title) async {
+    final response = await dio.get(baseUrl, queryParameters: {
+        "action": "query",
+        "format": "json",
+        "list": "prefixsearch",
+        "pssearch": title,
+    });
+
+    final data = jsonDecode(response.toString());
+    log(data.toString());
+    final List<dynamic> results = data["query"]["prefixsearch"] ?? {};
+    final Map<String, int> titlesAndIds = {
+        for (var d in results) d["title"]: d["pageid"]
+    };
+    if (titlesAndIds.isEmpty) {
+        log("No pages found for $title");
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    // after the empty check, we can safely assume that there is a best match
+    final ExtractedResult<String> bestMatch = extractOne(
+      query: title,
+      choices: titlesAndIds.keys.toList(),
+      cutoff: 70,
+    );
+    return titlesAndIds[bestMatch.choice];
+}
+
+Future<String?> getImageUrl(int pageId) async {
+    final response = await dio.get(baseUrl, queryParameters: {
+        "action": "query",
+        "format": "json",
+        "prop": "pageimages",
+        "pageids": pageId,
+        "pithumbsize": 500,
+    });
+
+    final data = jsonDecode(response.toString());
+    final pageData = data["query"]["pages"][pageId.toString()];
+    return pageData["thumbnail"]?["source"];
+}
+
+Future<String?> getImageUrlFromName(String title) async {
+    int? pageId = await bestPageMatch(title);
+    if (pageId == null) {
+        return null;
+    }
+    return await getImageUrl(pageId);
+}