Grab just the main content of a MediaWiki page

[plittlefield]

Is there a way to grab just the 'main content' part of a MediaWiki page?

It comes after these sections (taken from the Markdown version) ...

::: {#bodyContent .mw-body-content}
::: {#contentSub}

So, I guess I want to grab what comes out in the "Printable Version" of a page - without the theme or any styling.

Thanks in advance.

Paully

[rnwst]

Could you please provide a complete minimal example of what you are trying to do?

[bpj]

If you want to discard all document content except for the content of a single div with a unique identifier or class you can use a Lua filter like this:

local div_content

local get_div = function(div)
  if 'my-id' == div.identifier then
    div_content = div.content
  end
  -- if div.classes:includes('my-class') then
  --   div_content = div.content
  -- end
  return nil
end

local set_body = function(doc)
  if div_content then
    doc.blocks = div_content
    return doc
  end
  return nil
end

return {
  { Div = get_div },
  { Pandoc = set_body }
}

For example with this input

::: {#outer}
Start of outer.

::: {#my-id}
Div content

::: inner
Inner content
:::
:::

End of outer

:::

with this commandline

pandoc -w markdown div2doc.lua example.md

you get

Div content

::: inner
Inner content
:::

[plittlefield]

Thanks!

[plittlefield]

I’ll try these suggestions and also htmlq cheers!