pywikibot 8.6.0

Python MediaWiki Bot Framework

Pywikibot

The Pywikibot framework is a Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API version 1.27 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>

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.

Roadmap

Current release

• Lazy load imageinfo metadata (T253591)

• Fetch URL of page scan via imageforpagein proofreadpagemodule (T114318, T181913, T352524)

• Sort page names before loading pages in proofreadpagemodule

• L10N and i18n updates

• check for valid family and site option after -help is processed (T350756)

• Handle canary events in comms.eventstreams (T350756)

• Python 3.6 support will be discontinued and this is the last version supporting it.

Deprecations

• 8.4.0: Python 3.6 support is deprecated and will be dropped soon with Pywikibot 9

• 8.4.0: modules_only_mode parameter of data.api.ParamInfo, its paraminfo_keys class attribute and its preloaded_modules property will be removed

• 8.4.0: dropdelay and releasepid attributes of throttle.Throttlewill be removed in favour of expiry class attribute

• 8.2.0: tools.itertools.itergroupwill be removed in favour of backports.batched

• 8.2.0: normalize parameter of WbTime.toTimestrand WbTime.toWikibasewill be removed

• 8.1.0: Dependency of exceptions.NoSiteLinkErrorfrom exceptions.NoPageErrorwill be removed

• 8.1.0: exceptions.Server414Error is deprecated in favour of exceptions.Client414Error

• 8.0.0: Timestamp.clone()method is deprecated in favour of Timestamp.replace() method.

• 8.0.0: family.Family.maximum_GET_lengthmethod is deprecated in favour of config.maximum_GET_length(T325957)

• 8.0.0: addOnly parameter of textlib.replaceLanguageLinksand textlib.replaceCategoryLinksare deprecated in favour of add_only

• 8.0.0: textlib.TimeStripperregex attributes ptimeR, ptimeznR, pyearR, pmonthR, pdayR are deprecated in favour of patterns attribute which is a textlib.TimeStripperPatterns.

• 8.0.0: textlib.TimeStripper``groups`` attribute is deprecated in favour of textlib.TIMEGROUPS

• 8.0.0: LoginManager.get_login_tokenwas replaced by login.ClientLoginManager.site.tokens['login']

• 8.0.0: data.api.LoginManager() is deprecated in favour of login.ClientLoginManager

• 8.0.0: APISite.messages()method is deprecated in favour of userinfo[‘messages’]

• 8.0.0: Page.editTime()method is deprecated and should be replaced by Page.latest_revision.timestamp

• 7.7.0: tools.threadingclasses should no longer imported from tools

• 7.6.0: tools.itertoolsdatatypes should no longer imported from tools

• 7.6.0: tools.collectionsdatatypes should no longer imported from tools

• 7.5.0: textlib.tzoneFixedOffset class will be removed in favour of time.TZoneFixedOffset

• 7.4.0: FilePage.usingPages() was renamed to using_pages()

• 7.2.0: tb parameter of exception()function was renamed to exc_info

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

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

• 7.2.0: tools.formatter.color_formatis deprecated and will be removed

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

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

• 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

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

Will be removed in Pywikibot 9

• 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.itertools.intersect_generatorsas positional argument is deprecated, use keyword argument instead

• 6.4.0: ‘iterables’ of tools.itertools.intersect_generatorsgiven 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

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.