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action=expandtemplates

(main | expandtemplates)

Expands all templates within wikitext.

Specific parameters:

Other general parameters are available.

title

Title of the 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): categories, encodedjsconfigvars, jsconfigvars, modules, parsetree, properties, ttl, volatile, wikitext

includecomments

Whether to include HTML comments in the output.

Type: boolean (details)

showstrategykeys

Whether to include internal merge strategy information in jsconfigvars.

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]