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.wikimedia@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 <roy@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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