I'm trying to parse DYK prep area templates, for example Template:Did you
know/Preparation area 3
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know/Preparation_area_3>.
Unfortunately, these are more like flat text files than any kind of nicely
structured data. The stuff of interest is everything between two HTML comments:
> <!--Hooks-->
> {{main page image/DYK|image=Melissa Ong.webp|caption=Selfie of Ong, commonly
> replicated by the Step Chickens<!--the caption length is intentional, it
> highlights that this image is there for a specific purpose and isn't just any
> image of Ong – please don't shorten it! Same for the ''(shown)'' –leek -->}}
> * ... that "Step Chickens" on TikTok replace their profile pictures with an
> image ''(shown)'' of '''[[Melissa Ong]]''', whom they call "Mother Hen"?
> * ... that '''[[interfaith greetings in Indonesia]]''' include phrases from
> Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism?
> * ... that '''[[Kimmo Leinonen]]''' helped establish both the [[Finnish
> Hockey Hall of Fame]] and the [[IIHF Hall of Fame]]?
> * ... that the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|Pulitzer Prize]]-winning novel
> '''''[[All the Light We Cannot See]]''''' contains a sympathetic
> [[Nazism|Nazi]]?
> * ... that a {{Convert|10|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall|0}} '''[[Lady Rainier|statue of
> a woman]]''' in [[Seattle]] was commissioned by a local brewery in 1903?
> * ... that ...
> * ... that prior to entering politics, '''[[Herbert Salvatierra]]''' led a
> troupe of [[carnival]] ''[[comparsa]]s''?
> * ... that [[Winston Churchill]] published '''[[Are There Men on the Moon?|an
> essay on extraterrestrial life]]''' during the Second World War?
> <!--HooksEnd-->
I can find the comments with Wikicode.filter_comments(). But once I've found
the two delimiting comments, how do I grab the text between them? Or is the
parser the wrong tool? Would I do better to treat the content of the page as
flat text and just iterate over it line by line, teasing it apart with regexes?
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