mwtemplates is a MediaWiki wikitext template parser and editor, based on a Python rewrite of the MediaWiki preprocessorDOM.php. Tested with python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5

Installation

The package is on PyPI <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mwtemplates>_, so you can install it using pip, easy_install or similar:

.. code-block:: console

$ pip install -U mwtemplates

Or you can grab the latest zip from releases <https://github.com/danmichaelo/mwtemplates/releases>_.

Introduction

Let's start by importing TemplateEditor and giving it some wikitext to eat:

.. code-block:: python

>>> from mwtemplates import TemplateEditor
>>> txt = u"""{{Infobox cheese
... | name = Mozzarella
... | protein = 7
... }}
... Mozzarella is a cheese…{{tr}}"""
>>> te = TemplateEditor(txt)

First, we can see what templates the editor found in the text:

.. code-block:: python

>>> te.templates
[<Template:"Infobox cheese" at line 2>, <Template:"Tr" at line 6>]

Each template is an instance of a Template class. Also notice that template names are normalized by upper-casing the first character. Now, we can try investigating the Infobox cheese template:

.. code-block:: python

>>> te.templates['Infobox cheese']
[<Template:"Infobox cheese" at line 2>]

Since there can be several instances of the same template, an array is always returned, and so we need to ask for te.templates['Infobox cheese'][0] to get the actual Template. To get the parameters:

.. code-block:: python

>>> te.templates['Infobox cheese'][0].parameters
<Parameters: name="Mozzarella", protein="10">

Let's say we want to change the value of the protein parameter from 10 to 7. We then use the wikitext() method to return our new wikitext:

.. code-block:: python

>>> te.templates['Infobox cheese'][0].parameters['protein'] = 7
>>> print te.wikitext()
{{Infobox cheese
| name = Mozzarella
| protein = 10
}}
Mozzarella is a cheese…{{tr}}

Notice that formatting is preserved. We could now go and add a new parameter like so:

.. code-block:: python

>>> te.templates['Infobox cheese'][0].parameters['fat'] = 25
>>> print te.wikitext()
{{Infobox cheese
| name = Mozzarella
| protein = 7
| fat = 25
}}
Mozzarella is a cheese…{{tr}}

Usage with mwclient to edit pages on Wikipedia

Updating a page on Wikipedia using mwclient <https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient>_

.. code-block:: python

from mwclient import Site from mwtemplates import TemplateEditor

site = Site('en.wikipedia.org') site.login('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD') page = site.pages['SOME_PAGE'] te = TemplateEditor(page.text()) if 'SOME_TEMPLATE' in page.templates: tpl = te.templates['SOME_TEMPLATE'][0] tpl.parameters['test'] = 'Hello' page.save(te.wikitext(), summary='...')

Removing a template argument:

.. code-block:: python

from mwtemplates import TemplateEditor
te = TemplateEditor(u"Hello {{mytpl | a=2 | b=3 | c=4 }} world")
te.templates['mytpl'].parameters.remove('b')

Removing the first instance of a template:

.. code-block:: python

from mwtemplates import TemplateEditor
te = TemplateEditor(u"Hello {{mytpl}} world {{mytpl}}")
te.templates['mytpl'][0].remove()

Contributing

Pull requests are very welcome. Please run tests before submitting:

.. code-block:: console

$ python setup.py test

Keywords

mediawiki wikipedia

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