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How to get the contents of a wiki template?

Does anyone know how to access the body of a template inside a page?

I am familiar with an API that returns a list of ALL templates that exist on a page , but how can I access the body template? Is there an API for this? So far I see only one possible way ... to parse it manually. I'm wrong?

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You can use the expandtemplates API call or the rvexpandtemplates parameter for the revisions API call.

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This is an old question, but it helped me figure out how to get a mediawiki page with advanced template macros. Very useful if you are doing the conversion.

 <MW_BASEURL>/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions &titles=<url_encoded_page_title>&format=xml&rvprop=content&rvexpandtemplates

I am parsing the xml returned from this request to get an extended page.

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