pymw 0.4.1

Installation

pip install pymw

Usage

Create a .pymw.toml file in your home directory with the following content format to avoid directly providing username and password for login calls:

# The configuration file for pymw python library.
version = 1

['https://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'.login]
'<Username@Special:BotPasswords>' = '<BotPassword>'

Notable features

• Supports setting a custom User-Agent header for each API instance.

• Handles query continuations.

• Handles batchcomplete signals for prop queries and yeilds the results as soon as a batch is complete.

• Configurable maxlag. Waits as the API recommends and then retries.

• Some convenient methods for accessing common API calls, e.g. for recentchanges, login, upload, and siteinfo.

• Lightweight. pymw is a thin wrapper. Method signatures are very similar to the parameters in an actual API URL. You can consult MediaWiki’s documentation if in doubt about what a parameter does.