I had a similar issue with updating templates in WLM template lists. This
function might be good inspiration:
https://github.com/rowiki/wikiro/blob/master/robots/python/pwb/monumente/corroborate_monument_data.py#L153
Strainu
Pe vineri, 3 februarie 2023, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> a scris:
> Thanks.
> Sadly, I think treating this as flat text will end up being the most
straight-forward way to do it.
>
>
> On Feb 2, 2023, at 7:03 PM, JJMC89 <jjmc89.wikime...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. 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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