pywikibot 7.3.0

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
pwb <scriptname>

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

Script example

Pywikibot provides bot classes to develop your own script easily:

import pywikibot
from pywikibot import pagegenerators
from pywikibot.bot import ExistingPageBot

class MyBot(ExistingPageBot):

    update_options = {
        'text': 'This is a test text',
        'summary: 'Bot: a bot test edit with Pywikibot.'
    }

    def treat_page(self):
        """Load the given page, do some changes, and save it."""
        text = self.current_page.text
        text += '\n' + self.opt.text
        self.put_current(text, summary=self.opt.summary)

def main():
    """Parse command line arguments and invoke bot."""
    options = {}
    gen_factory = pagegenerators.GeneratorFactory()
    # Option parsing
    local_args = pywikibot.handle_args(args)  # global options
    local_args = gen_factory.handle_args(local_args)  # generators options
    for arg in local_args:
        opt, sep, value = arg.partition(':')
        if opt in ('-summary', '-text'):
            options[opt[1:]] = value
    MyBot(generator=gen_factory.getCombinedGenerator(), **options).run()

if __name == '__main__':
    main()

For more documentation on Pywikibot see our docs.

Required external programs

It may require the following programs to function properly:

• 7za: To extract 7z files

Roadmap

Current release 7.3.0

• Add support for kcgwiki (T305282)

• Raise InvalidTitleError instead of unspecific ValueError in ProofreadPage (T308016)

• Preload pages if GeneratorFactory.articlenotfilter_list is not empty; also set attribute is_preloading.

• ClaimCollection.toJSON() should not ignore new claim (T308245)

• use linktrail via siteinfo and remove update_linkrtrails maintenance script

• Print counter statistic for all counters (T307834)

• Use proofreadpagesinindex query module

• Prioritize -namespaces options in pagegenerators.handle_args (T222519)

• Remove ThreadList.stop_all() method (T307830)

• L10N updates

• Improve get_charset_from_content_type function (T307760)

• A tiny cache wrapper was added to hold results of parameterless methods and properties

• Increase workers in preload_sites.py

• Close logging handlers before deleting them (T91375, T286127)

• Clear _sites cache if called with pwb wrapper (T225594)

• Enable short creation of a site if family name is equal to site code

• Use exc_info=True with pywikibot.exception() by default (T306762)

• Make IndexPage more robust when getting links in Page ns (T307280)

• Do not print log header twice in log files (T264235)

• Do not delegate logging output to the root logger (T281643)

• Add get_charset_from_content_type to extract the charset from the content-type response header

Deprecations

• 7.3.0: Python 3.5 support will be dropped with Python 8 (T301908)

• 7.2.0: XMLDumpOldPageGenerator is deprecated in favour of a content parameter (T306134)

• 7.2.0: RedirectPageBot and NoRedirectPageBot bot classes are deprecated in favour of use_redirects attribute

• 7.2.0: tools.formatter.color_format is deprecated and will be removed

• 7.1.0: win32_unicode.py will be removed with Pywikibot 8

• 7.1.0: Unused get_redirect parameter of Page.getOldVersion() will be removed

• 7.1.0: APISite._simple_request() will be removed in favour of APISite.simple_request()

• 7.0.0: The i18n identifier ‘cosmetic_changes-append’ will be removed in favour of ‘pywikibot-cosmetic-changes’

• 7.0.0: User.isBlocked() method is renamed to is_blocked for consistency

• 7.0.0: Require mysql >= 0.7.11 (T216741)

• 7.0.0: Private BaseBot counters _treat_counter, _save_counter, _skip_counter will be removed in favour of collections.Counter counter attribute

• 7.0.0: A boolean watch parameter in Page.save() is deprecated and will be desupported

• 7.0.0: baserevid parameter of editSource(), editQualifier(), removeClaims(), removeSources(), remove_qualifiers() DataSite methods will be removed

• 7.0.0: Values of APISite.allpages() parameter filterredir other than True, False and None are deprecated

• 6.5.0: OutputOption.output() method will be removed in favour of OutputOption.out property

• 6.5.0: Infinite rotating file handler with logfilecount of -1 is deprecated

• 6.4.0: ‘allow_duplicates’ parameter of tools.intersect_generators as positional argument is deprecated, use keyword argument instead

• 6.4.0: ‘iterables’ of tools.intersect_generators given as a list or tuple is deprecated, either use consecutive iterables or use ‘*’ to unpack

• 6.2.0: outputter of OutputProxyOption without out property is deprecated

• 6.2.0: ContextOption.output_range() and HighlightContextOption.output_range() are deprecated

• 6.2.0: Error messages with ‘%’ style is deprecated in favour for str.format() style

• 6.2.0: page.url2unicode() function is deprecated in favour of tools.chars.url2string()

• 6.2.0: Throttle.multiplydelay attribute is deprecated

• 6.2.0: SequenceOutputter.format_list() is deprecated in favour of ‘out’ property

• 6.0.0: config.register_family_file() is deprecated

• 5.5.0: APISite.redirectRegex() is deprecated in favour of APISite.redirect_regex() and will be removed with Pywikibot 8

• 4.0.0: Revision.parent_id is deprecated in favour of Revision.parentid and will be removed with Pywikibot 8

• 4.0.0: Revision.content_model is deprecated in favour of Revision.contentmodel and will be removed with Pywikibot 8

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.