pywikibot 3.0.20171212

Python MediaWiki Bot Framework

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

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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

• 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.