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Python MediaWiki Bot Framework

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Pywikibot

The Pywikibot framework is a Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API version 1.14 or higher.

Also included are various general function scripts that can be adapted for different tasks.

For further information about the library excluding scripts see the full code documentation.

Quick start

git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/pywikibot/core.git
cd core
git submodule update --init
python pwb.py script_name

Or to install using PyPI (excluding scripts)

pip install -U setuptools
pip install pywikibot

Our installation guide has more details for advanced usage.

Basic Usage

If you wish to write your own script it’s very easy to get started:

import pywikibot
site = pywikibot.Site('en', 'wikipedia')  # The site we want to run our bot on
page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Wikipedia:Sandbox')
page.text = page.text.replace('foo', 'bar')
page.save('Replacing "foo" with "bar"')  # Saves the page

For more documentation on pywikibot see our docs.

The contents of the package

Directories

pywikibot

Library routines, control files and global settings

pywikibot/comms

Communication layer

pywikibot/data

Module with several layers for data access to wiki

pywikibot/families

wiki-specific information and settings

pywikibot/page

Module with classes for MediaWiki page content

pywikibot/site

Module with classes for MediaWiki sites

pywikibot/specialbots

Module containing special bots reusable by scripts

pywikibot/tools

Miscellaneous helper functions (not wiki-dependent)

pywikibot/userinterfaces

GUI and terminal interface

Required external programs

It may require the following programs to function properly:

  • 7za: To extract 7z files

Roadmap

Current release

  • Usage of SkipPageError with BaseBot has been removed

  • Throttle requests after ratelimits exceeded (T253180)

  • Make Pywikibot daemon logs unexecutable (T253472)

  • Check for missing generator after BaseBot.setup() call

  • Do not change usernames when creating a Site (T253127)

  • pagegenerators: handle protocols in -weblink (T251308, T251310)

  • Bugfixes and improvements

  • Localisation updates

Future releases

  • 3.0.20200508: Page.getVersionHistory and Page.fullVersionHistory() methods will be removed (T136513, T151110)

  • 3.0.20200405: Site and Page methods deprecated for 10 years or longer will be removed

  • 3.0.20200326: Functions dealing with stars list will be removed

  • 3.0.20200306: Support of MediaWiki releases below 1.19 will be dropped (T245350)

  • 3.0.20200306: tools.ip will be dropped in favour of tools.is_IP (T243171)

  • 3.0.20200111: Support for Python 3.4 will be dropped shortly (T239542)

  • 3.0.20190722: Support for Python 2 will be dropped shortly (T213287)

Release history

See https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot/blob/stable/HISTORY.rst

Contributing

Our code is maintained on Wikimedia’s Gerrit installation, learn how to get started.

Code of Conduct

The development of this software is covered by a Code of Conduct.

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