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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 pywikibot --pre

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/compat

Package to provide compatibility with compat scripts

pywikibot/data

Module with several layers for data access to wiki

pywikibot/families

wiki-specific information and settings

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

Release history

Current release

  • Deprecation warning: support for py2.6 and py3.3 will be dropped

  • Bugfixes and improvements

  • Localisation updates

3.0.20180108

  • Maintenance script to download Wikimedia database dump

  • Option to auto-create accounts when logging in

  • Ship wikimania family file

  • Drop battlestarwiki family file

  • Bugfixes and improvements

  • Localisation updates

3.0.20171212

  • Introduce userscripts directory

  • Generator settings inside (user-)fixes.py

  • BaseUnlinkBot has become part of the framework in specialbots.py

  • Decommission of rcstream

  • Script files added to https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/

  • Other documentation updates

  • Bugfixes and improvements

  • Localisation updates

3.0.20170801

  • Bugfixes and improvements

  • Localisation updates

3.0.20170713

  • Implement server side event client EventStreams

  • Add thanks log support

  • new ndashredir.py script to create hyphenated redirects

  • new followlive.py script to flag new articles

  • new WbUnknown data type for Wikibase

  • Deprecate APISite.newfiles()

  • new pagegenerators filter option -titleregexnot

  • Inverse of pagegenerators -namespace option

  • Bugfixes and improvements

  • Localisation updates

  • Remove panoramiopicker.py script

  • Remove anarchopedia family out of the framework

  • CODE_OF_CONDUCT included

3.0.20170521

  • Replaced the word ‘async’ with ‘asynchronous’ due to python 3.7

  • Support for Python 2.6 but higher releases are strictly recommended

  • Bugfixes and improvements

  • Localisation updates

3.0.20170403

  • First major release from master branch

  • requests package is mandatory

  • Deprecate previous 2.0 branches

2.0rc5

  • Last stable 2.0 branch

2.0rc4

  • Remove dependency on pYsearch

  • Desupport Python 2.6 for Pywikibot 2.0 release branch

2.0rc3

  • Bugfixes

  • Localisation updates

  • i18n: always follow master branch

2.0rc2

  • Bugfixes and improvements

  • Localisation updates

2.0rc1

  • New scripts patrol.py and piper.py ported from old compat branch

  • isbn.py now supports wikibase

  • RecentChanges stream (rcstream) support

  • Sphinx documentation at https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/

  • Bugfixes and improvements

  • Localisation updates

2.0b3

  • Bugfixes and improvements

2.0b2

  • Bugfixes and improvements

2.0b1

  • First stable release branch

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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