hi Brendan, you can try to use the Page Object Model [http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-page-object-model/] based on the MW API.

I looked through the API docs I found online, and I didn't see any straightforward way to access template fields on a page through any obvious means. As an example, I want to access a page, pull in values from a number of different pre-defined wiki-page-template fields. Is there any way to do this, or am I stuck doing regex on a big blob of text?

Thanks, Brendan

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2008/10/14 Brendan Crosser-McGay verifex@gmail.com:

I looked through the API docs I found online, and I didn't see any straightforward way to access template fields on a page through any obvious means. As an example, I want to access a page, pull in values from a number of different pre-defined wiki-page-template fields. Is there any way to do this, or am I stuck doing regex on a big blob of text?

I was happily surprised to find out recently that you can parse HTML tables (and most infobox-style templates get converted to tables) using Google Spreadsheets: http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-with-google-spreadsheets/

I don't know if there is some way to automate that on the fly, but it could be worth checking out anyway. I reckon it's pretty neat.

cheers Brianna