I need to get the content of an infobox of any movie. I know the name of the movie. One way is to get the complete content of a Wikipedia page and then parse it until I find {{Infobox
and then get the content of the infobox.
Is there any other way for the same using some API or parser?
I am using Python and the pywikipediabot API.
I am also familiar with the wikitools API. So instead of pywikipedia if someone has solution related to the wikitools API, please mention that as well.
Another great MediaWiki parser is mwparserfromhell.
In [1]: import mwparserfromhell
In [2]: import pywikibot
In [3]: enwp = pywikibot.Site('en','wikipedia')
In [4]: page = pywikibot.Page(enwp, 'Waking Life')
In [5]: wikitext = page.get()
In [6]: wikicode = mwparserfromhell.parse(wikitext)
In [7]: templates = wikicode.filter_templates()
In [8]: templates?
Type: list
String Form:[u'{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2012}}', u"{{Infobox film\n| name = Waking Life\n| im <...> critic film|waking-life|Waking Life}}', u'{{Richard Linklater}}', u'{{DEFAULTSORT:Waking Life}}']
Length: 31
Docstring:
list() -> new empty list
list(iterable) -> new list initialized from iterable's items
In [10]: templates[:2]
Out[10]:
[u'{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2012}}',
u"{{Infobox film\n| name = Waking Life\n| image = Waking-Life-Poster.jpg\n| image_size = 220px\n| alt =\n| caption = Theatrical release poster\n| director = [[Richard Linklater]]\n| producer = [[Tommy Pallotta]]<br />[[Jonah Smith]]<br />Anne Walker-McBay<br />Palmer West\n| writer = Richard Linklater\n| starring = [[Wiley Wiggins]]\n| music = Glover Gill\n| cinematography = Richard Linklater<br />[[Tommy Pallotta]]\n| editing = Sandra Adair\n| studio = [[Thousand Words]]\n| distributor = [[Fox Searchlight Pictures]]\n| released = {{Film date|2001|01|23|[[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]]|2001|10|19|United States}}\n| runtime = 101 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 100:40--><ref>{{cite web |title=''WAKING LIFE'' (15) |url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/waking-life-2002-3|work=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=September 19, 2001|accessdate=May 6, 2013}}</ref>\n| country = United States\n| language = English\n| budget =\n| gross = $3,176,880<ref>{{cite web|title=''Waking Life'' (2001)|work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=wakinglife.htm|accessdate=March 20, 2010}}</ref>\n}}"]
In [11]: infobox_film = templates[1]
In [12]: for param in infobox_film.params:
print param.name, param.value
name Waking Life
image Waking-Life-Poster.jpg
image_size 220px
alt
caption Theatrical release poster
director [[Richard Linklater]]
producer [[Tommy Pallotta]]<br />[[Jonah Smith]]<br />Anne Walker-McBay<br />Palmer West
writer Richard Linklater
starring [[Wiley Wiggins]]
music Glover Gill
cinematography Richard Linklater<br />[[Tommy Pallotta]]
editing Sandra Adair
studio [[Thousand Words]]
distributor [[Fox Searchlight Pictures]]
released {{Film date|2001|01|23|[[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]]|2001|10|19|United States}}
runtime 101 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 100:40--><ref>{{cite web |title=''WAKING LIFE'' (15) |url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/waking-life-2002-3|work=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=September 19, 2001|accessdate=May 6, 2013}}</ref>
country United States
language English
budget
gross $3,176,880<ref>{{cite web|title=''Waking Life'' (2001)|work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=wakinglife.htm|accessdate=March 20, 2010}}</ref>
Don't forget that params are mwparserfromhell objects too!