MediaWiki API help
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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]