For similar cases, I have used a regex to find the part marked by comments and then parse the part between.
START_END = re.compile(r"^(.*?<!--\s*Hooks\s*-->)(.*?)(<!--\s*HooksEnd\s*-->.*)$", flags=re.I | re.S) m = START_END.search(page.text) wikicode = mwparserfromhell.parse(m.group(2)) # do stuff with wikicode You may be able to do it with the parser. # assume start and end represent comment objects you found from wikicode.filter_comments() start_index = wikicode.index(start) end_index = wikicode.index(end) inside = wikicode.nodes[start_index:end_index] On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 3:39 PM Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > 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? > > > _______________________________________________ > pywikibot mailing list -- pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org/message/XA2Y2ZFSFSLRG5TWHIV5G3QRMAK27H56/ > To unsubscribe send an email to pywikibot-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >
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