Python MediaWiki Bot Framework
Project description
Pywikibot
The Pywikibot framework is a Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API version 1.19 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
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
Allow using pywikibot as site-package without user-config.py (T270474)
Python 3.10 is supported
Fix AutoFamily scriptpath() call (T270370)
Add support for skrwiki, skrwiktionary, eowikivoyage, wawikisource, madwiki (T268414, T268460, T269429, T269434, T269442)
wikistats methods fetch, raw_cached, csv, xml has been removed
PageRelatedError.getPage() has been removed in favour of PageRelatedError.page
DataSite.get_item() method has been removed
global put_throttle option may be given as float (T269741)
Property.getType() method has been removed
Family.server_time() method was removed; it is still available from Site object (T89451)
All HttpRequest parameters except of charset has been dropped (T265206)
A lot of methods and properties of HttpRequest are deprecared in favour of requests.Resonse attributes (T265206)
Method and properties of HttpRequest are delegated to requests.Response object (T265206)
comms.threadedhttp.HttpRequest.raw was replaced by HttpRequest.content property (T265206)
Desupported version.getfileversion() has been removed
site parameter of comms.http.requests() function is mandatory and cannot be omitted
date.MakeParameter() function has been removed
api.Request.http_params() method has been removed
L10N updates
Future release notes
5.3.0: api.ParamInfo.modules property will be removed
5.3.0: LogEntryFactory.logtypes property will be removed
5.3.0: stdout parameter of logging.output()/pywikibot.output() function will be desupported
5.1.0: Positional arguments of page.Revision must be replaced by keyword arguments (T259428)
5.0.0: HttpRequest result of http.fetch() will be replaced by requests.Response (T265206)
5.0.0: OptionHandler.options dict will be removed in favour of OptionHandler.opt
5.0.0: Methods deprecated for 5 years or longer will be removed
5.0.0: Outdated Site.recentchanges() parameters will be removed
5.0.0: site.LoginStatus will be removed in favour of login.LoginStatus
5.0.0: pagegenerators.ReferringPageGenerator is desupported and 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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