I'm trying to scrape the helpful Infobox from most Automobile pages, however I'm messing up the syntax. From other helpful SO posts, I've found a handy method of scraping a standard Infobox template (the example given was for hydrogen):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=Template:Infobox%20hydrogen
I can use a similar process to pull the Ford Pinto page (using this as it only has a single Infobox, as there was only one, infamous, model generation):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=Ford_Pinto
This page, and most automobile pages, used one of the vehicle-specific Infobox templates, in this case "Infobox automobile" (sorry for the massive block, I'm going to edit this once it's posted as I'm on mobile and I read up on SO formatting):
{{Infobox automobile
| name = Ford Pinto
| image = Ford Pinto.jpg
| caption = Ford Pinto
| manufacturer = [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]
| aka = Mercury Bobcat
| production = September 1970–1980
| model_years = 1971–1980 (Pinto)<br> 1974–1980 (Bobcat)
| assembly = '''United States:''' {{ubl|[[Edison, New Jersey]] ([[Edison Assembly]])|[[Milpitas, California]] ([[San Jose Assembly Plant|San Jose Assembly]])}}'''Canada:''' {{ubl|[[Southwold, Ontario]] ([[St. Thomas Assembly]])}}
| designer = Robert Eidschun (1968)<ref name=bbw20091030>
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</ref>
| class = [[Subcompact car]]
| body_style = 2-door [[Sedan (automobile)|sedan]]<br/>2-door [[sedan delivery]]<br/>2-door [[station wagon]]<br/> 3-door [[hatchback]]
| related = [[Ford Pinto#Mercury Bobcat (1974–1980)|Mercury Bobcat]]<br>[[Ford Mustang (second generation)|Ford Mustang II]]<br> [[Pangra]]
| layout = [[Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout|FR layout]]
| engine = {{unbulleted list
| 1.6L ''[[Ford Kent engine|Kent]]'' I4
| 2.0L ''[[Ford Pinto engine|EAO]]'' I4
| 2.3L ''[[Ford Pinto engine|OHC]]'' I4
| 2.8L ''[[Ford Cologne engine|Cologne]]'' V6
}}
| transmission = {{unbulleted list
| 4-speed manual
| 3-speed ''[[Ford C3 transmission|C3/"Selectshift/Cruise-O-Matic"]]'' automatic
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</ref>
|wheelbase = {{convert|94.0|in|mm|abbr=on}}<ref>
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}}
| wheelbase = {{convert|94.0|in|mm|abbr=on}}<ref>
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</ref>
| length = {{convert|163|in|mm|abbr=on}}
| width = {{convert|69.4|in|mm|abbr=on}}
| height = {{convert|50|in|mm|abbr=on}}
| weight = {{convert|2015|–|2270|lb|abbr=on}} (1971)
| predecessor = [[Ford Cortina|Ford Cortina (captive import)]]
| successor = [[Ford Escort (North America)|Ford Escort]]
}}
Though not as pretty as the above, another alternative is to use the REST API and slim the page down to just the article, in HTML, which will let me use a standard HTML parser to pull just the Infobox HTML table (link should work in chrome, but will definitely work on an Android device):
view-source:https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Ford_Pinto
<table class="infobox hproduct" style="width:22em" about="#mwt7" typeof="mw:Transclusion" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"Infobox automobile\n","href":"./Template:Infobox_automobile"}
I can handle parsing either of these for the information I want, namely performance information - model, years, drivetrain layout, engines, transmissions, wheelbase, weight - however despite trying various API/other urls, I've yet been unable to directly scrape just the Infobox using the API alone. Also, I'm not exactly sure what the difference is between using an api.php? action=parse url vs an index.php? action=raw - any clarification here is welcome, though I don't think directly relevant. Here are some unsuccessful examples of what I have tried, each with different errors/results:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ <- append the following to this base link as I can't post a bunch of links
api.php?action=parse&page=Template:Infobox%20automobile%20Ford_Pinto&format=json
api.php?action=query&titles=Template:Infobox%20automobile%20Ford%20Pinto&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=json&formatversion=2
api.php?action=query&titles=Template:Infobox%20automobile%20Ford_Pinto&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=json&formatversion=2
index.php?action=raw&title=Template:Infobox%20automobile%20Ford_Pinto
index.php?action=raw&title=Template:Infobox%20automobile%20Ford%20Pinto
index.php?action=raw&titles=Template:Infobox%20automobile%20Ford_Pinto
index.php?action=raw&titles=Template:Infobox%20automobile%20Ford%20Pinto
This is different from various other Infobox scraping questions as these articles use a specific Infobox template that prevents me from using the very successful API url I've posted above, although I'm sure this is user error and a simple fix. Thank you for your time in reading and assisting!
Edit: the suggested page is the way I'm already trying, and failing. Per that page, I am attempting the 'wrong' way until someone, including myself, figures out what I'm doing wrong - assuming there is a right way for the non standardized/base Infobox Templates. Failing any new information in a day or so, I'll just accept the currently suggested answer to reward that user's helpfulness - but I really hoped I'd get a few more attempts, which is why I created an account and asked the hive mind after searching and failing to find an answer from the many other questions I checked. By the way, any attention is good attention, so thank you kindly for taking the time to look over this!