How to download images programmatically from Wikimedia Commons without registering for a Bot account?

Question

It seems like the only way to get approval for a Bot account is if it adds to or edits information already on Wikimedia. If you try to download any images, without a bot account

Answer 1

Having just done this myself I feel I should share:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Allimages

This API document does state that you can query the images:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allimages&aiprop=url&format=xml&ailimit=10&aifrom=Albert

with the aiprop=url you are given the url of the image you are looking for.