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You can probably achieve what you want by using the Gazebo services that are available when you start gazebo with ROS support. Once Gazebo is started you can do a

rosservice list

and you should multiple services offered by Gazebo that allow retrieving model properties, spawning models, moving them etc (here are the srv definitions).

Most services offered are also described in the Gazebo "Connect to ROS" tutorial.

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