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Craig Stewart
Craig Stewart

Reputation: 1501

Wikipedia MediaWiki API Get Template Content via URL Request

I've been going through the doc's for past few hours and simply can't seem to figure this out though probably simple.

I have this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=expandtemplates&titles=Arabinose&text={{Chembox%20Elements}}&prop=wikitext

Which obviously will give me the schema of Template Chembox | Chembox Elements in this case.

All I simply want is to retrieve the Molecular forumla content/data/value for the given page/title without having to parse the entire wiki content at my end.

Understand I have prop=wikitext which will be returning wikitext in the above example, there's no option in expandtemplates for prop=text. I've been back and forth with action=query, expandedtemplates etc and no joy.

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (1)

Buddy Fortier
Buddy Fortier

Reputation: 91

MediaWiki's API won't do the work for you. You'll have to parse your own results.

Upvotes: 1

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