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
Script example
Pywikibot provides bot classes to develop your own script easily:
import pywikibot
from pywikibot import pagegenerators
from pywikibot.bot import ExistingPageBot
class MyBot(ExistingPageBot):
update_options = {
'text': 'This is a test text',
'summary: 'Bot: a bot test edit with Pywikbot.'
}
def treat_page(self):
"""Load the given page, do some changes, and save it."""
text = self.current_page.text
text += '\n' + self.opt.text
self.put_current(text, summary=self.opt.summary)
def main():
"""Parse command line arguments and invoke bot."""
options = {}
gen_factory = pagegenerators.GeneratorFactory()
# Option parsing
local_args = pywikibot.handle_args(args) # global options
local_args = gen_factory.handle_args(local_args) # generators options
for arg in local_args:
opt, sep, value = arg.partition(':')
if opt in ('-summary', '-text'):
options[opt[1:]] = value
MyBot(generator=gen_factory.getCombinedGenerator(), **options).run()
if __name == '__main__':
main()
For more documentation on Pywikibot see our docs.
Required external programs
It may require the following programs to function properly:
7za: To extract 7z files
Roadmap
Current release changes
Fix for removed action API token parameters of MediaWiki 1.37 (T291202)
APISite.validate_tokens() no longer replaces outdated tokens (T291202)
L10N updates
Deprecations
6.6.0: Support of Python 3.5.0 - 3.5.2 will be dropped with Pywikibot 7 (T286867)
6.5.0: OutputOption.output() method will be removed in favour of OutputOption.out property
6.5.0: tools.RotatingFileHandler will be removed in favour of logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler
6.4.0: Pywikibot began using semantic versioning, all deprecated code will be removed in Pywikibot version 7.0.0.
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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