Python MediaWiki Bot Framework
Project description
Pywikibot
The Pywikibot framework is a Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API version 1.23 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
pip install requests 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
In addition a MediaWiki markup parser is required. Please install one of them:
pip install mwparserfromhell
or
pip install wikitextparser
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
Wikibase Usage
Wikibase is a flexible knowledge base software that drives Wikidata. A sample pywikibot script for getting data from Wikibase:
import pywikibot
site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:en')
repo = site.data_repository() # the Wikibase repository for given site
page = repo.page_from_repository('Q91') # create a local page for the given item
item = pywikibot.ItemPage(repo, 'Q91') # a repository item
data = item.get() # get all item data from repository for this item
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 changes
Check bot/nobots templates for cosmetic_changes hook (T283989)
Remove outdated opt._option which is already dropped (T284005)
Use IntEnum with cosmetic_changes CANCEL
Remove lru_cahce from botMayEdit method and fix it’s logic (T283957)
DataSite.createNewItemFromPage() method was removed in favour of ImagePage.fromPage() (T98663)
mwparserfromhell or wikitextparser MediaWiki markup parser is mandatory (T106763)
Deprecations
6.2.0: Bot’s availableOptions will be removed in favour of available_options
6.2.0: deprecated tools.is_IP will be removed
6.2.0: Usage of pywikibot.config2 is deprecated and will be dropped
6.2.0: Exceptions must be imported from exceptions namespace (T280227)
6.2.0: Deprecated exception identifiers will be removed (T280227)
6.2.0: empty_iterator will be removed in favour of iter()
6.1.0: tools.frozenmap will be removed in favour of types.MappingProxyType
6.1.0: tools.DotReadableDict will be removed
6.1.0: textlib.unescape() function will be removed in favour of html.unescape()
6.0.1: Site.undeletepage() and Site.undelete_file_versions() will be removed in favour of Site.undelete() method
6.0.1: Site.deletepage() and Site.deleteoldimage() will be removed in favour of Site.delete() method
5.0.0: Methods deprecated for 5 years or longer will be removed
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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