How can I count the words on the page as the user of wikipedia sees it in the browser?

[dpriskorn]

I don't care about the references, but I want all the other templates expanded, can mwparserfromhell do that?
Or is there another way to get this count for a page?

[earwig]

Since you want to expand templates, this might be best done without mwparserfromhell. You can use the action=render endpoint to get the expanded HTML for a live page (example) then beautifulsoup to extract the text:

soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(text)
count = len(' '.join(soup.stripped_strings)

[dpriskorn]

Thanks, i did not know about that parameter. 🙏