Frank Wein wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want to do the following: I want to extract all templates from a
> Wikipedia page with pywikibot.extract_templates_and_params(pagetext),
> that works fine. Now for certain fields in certain templates I want to
> parse the parameter itself. Or better said: I want to resolve (is this
> the correct term?) any included templates in such parameters, so
> basically I want to get the wikitext after parsing any templates within
> such parameters. As an example if my description is a bit too vague: I
> have this template
> {{Infobox number
> number = 4
> following-number = {{add_one_and_link_it|4}}
> }}
>
> The wikitext returned by the "add_one_and_link_it" template would be
> "[[5]]". Now, can I do this with pywikibot, too? Pass some string (in my
> case: extracted from a template) to a function and the bot will pass
> this to Wikipedia to get the final wikitext (I want to parse that wikitext)?
>
> Frank
Ok, after quite some more research I found what I was looking for :)
pywikibot.Site().expand_text(...) this does what I want.
Frank
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