pywikibot 6.3.0

Python MediaWiki Bot Framework

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

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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/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

• Check bot/nobots templates for cosmetic_changes hook (T283989)

• Remove outdated opt._option which is already dropped (T284005)

• Use IntEnum with cosmetic_changes CANCEL

• Remove lru_cahce from botMayEdit method and fix it’s logic (T283957)

• DataSite.createNewItemFromPage() method was removed in favour of ImagePage.fromPage() (T98663)

• mwparserfromhell or wikitextparser MediaWiki markup parser is mandatory (T106763)

Deprecations

• 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.