MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=expandtemplates
(main | expandtemplates)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Expands all templates within wikitext.
Parameters:
- title
Title of page.
- text
Wikitext to convert.
- This parameter is required.
- revid
Revision ID, for
{{REVISIONID}}and similar variables.- Type: integer
- prop
Which pieces of information to get.
Note that if no values are selected, the result will contain the wikitext, but the output will be in a deprecated format.
- wikitext
- The expanded wikitext.
- categories
- Any categories present in the input that are not represented in the wikitext output.
- properties
- Page properties defined by expanded magic words in the wikitext.
- volatile
- Whether the output is volatile and should not be reused elsewhere within the page.
- ttl
- The maximum time after which caches of the result should be invalidated.
- modules
- Any ResourceLoader modules that parser functions have requested be added to the output. Either jsconfigvars or encodedjsconfigvars must be requested jointly with modules.
- jsconfigvars
- Gives the JavaScript configuration variables specific to the page.
- encodedjsconfigvars
- Gives the JavaScript configuration variables specific to the page as a JSON string.
- parsetree
- The XML parse tree of the input.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): wikitext, categories, properties, volatile, ttl, modules, jsconfigvars, encodedjsconfigvars, parsetree
- includecomments
Whether to include HTML comments in the output.
- Type: boolean (details)
- generatexml
- Deprecated.
Generate XML parse tree (replaced by prop=parsetree).
- Type: boolean (details)
Example:
- Expand the wikitext {{Project:Sandbox}}.
- api.php?action=expandtemplates&text={{Project:Sandbox}} [open in sandbox]
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