wikitools3 — Package for working with MediaWiki wikis

Requirements

• Python 3. Not compatible with Python 2. If you are using Python 2, use the original wikitools instead.

Note: poetry or pip installation technically requires Python 3.8, but the code should mostly work on any version of Python 3.

• wikitools3 uses poetry for dependency management. If you are installing via pip, you should not need to install poetry separately.
• To upload files or import XML, you need Chris AtLee's poster3 package. This should be automatically installed by pip and/or poetry when you install wikitools3.
• The MediaWiki instance you are working with should be version 1.13 or later. If you are running a MediaWiki version earlier than 1.32.0 you may need to manually enable the API.

Installation

• Run pip install wikitools3. This is the preferred installation method and should add wikitools3 to your system path.
• If you are using poetry to manage dependencies for a project, you can add wikitools3 = "^3.0.1" to your project's pyproject.toml under [tool.poetry.dependencies], then run poetry install in your project directory to install wikitools3 in the project's virtual environment.
• Alternately, download the source repository and run poetry install within the wikitools3 directory or copy the wikitools3/wikitools3 subdirectory directly into the top-level directory of your project.

Available modules

• api.py - Contains the APIRequest class, for doing queries directly, see API examples below
• wiki.py - Contains the Wiki class, used for logging in to the site, storing cookies, and storing basic site information
• page.py - Contains the Page class for dealing with individual pages on the wiki. Can be used to get page info and text, as well as edit and other actions if enabled on the wiki
• category.py - Category is a subclass of Page with extra functions for working with categories
• wikifile.py - File is a subclass of Page with extra functions for working with files - note that there may be some issues with shared repositories, as the pages for files on shared repos technically don't exist on the local wiki.
• user.py - Contains the User class for getting information about and blocking/unblocking users
• pagelist.py - Contains several functions for getting a list of Page objects from lists of titles, pageids, or API query results

Further documentation

The legacy documentation for wikitools (for Python 2) is available at Google Code.

Current limitations

• Can only do what the API can do. On a site without the edit-API enabled (disabled by default prior to MediaWiki 1.14), you cannot edit/delete/protect pages, only retrieve information about them.
• May have issues with some non-ASCII characters. Most of these bugs should be resolved, though full UTF-8 support is still a little flaky.
• Usage on restricted-access (logged-out users can't read) wikis is mostly untested.
• wikitools3 has not been tested beyond the needs of wikiteam. If functionality from wikitools for Python 2 works for you, but the same functionality does not work for you in wikitools3, please submit a bug report at github.com/elsiehupp/wikitools3/issues.

Quick start

To make a simple query:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from wikitools3 import wiki
from wikitools3 import api

# create a Wiki object
site = wiki.Wiki("http://my.wikisite.org/w/api.php") 
# login - required for read-restricted wikis
site.login("username", "password")
# define the params for the query
params = {'action':'query', 'titles':'Main Page'}
# create the request object
request = api.APIRequest(site, params)
# query the API
result = request.query()

The result will look something like:

{u'query':
    {u'pages':
        {u'15580374':
            {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 15580374, u'title': u'Main Page'}
        }
    }
}

If the API module you need requires a token, you first do something like:

params = { 'action':'query', 'meta':'tokens' }
token = api.APIRequest(site, params).query()['query']['tokens']['csrftoken']
# define the params for the query
params = { 'action':'thank', 'rev':diff, 'token':token }

For most normal usage, you may not have to do API queries yourself and can just use the various classes. For example, to add a template to the top of all the pages in namespace 0 in a category:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from wikitools3 import wiki
from wikitools3 import category

site = wiki.Wiki("http://my.wikisite.org/w/api.php") 
site.login("username", "password")
# Create object for "Category:Foo"
cat = category.Category(site, "Foo")
# iterate through all the pages in ns 0
for article in cat.getAllMembersGen(namespaces=[0]):
    # edit each page
    article.edit(prependtext="{{template}}\n")

See the MediaWiki API documentation for more information about using the MediaWiki API. You can get an example of what query results will look like by doing the queries in your web browser using the jsonfm format option.

License

wikitools3 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

wikitools3 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with wikitools3. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Authors

• Alex Zaddach [@alexz-enwp]
• Brandon Weeks [@brandonweeks]
• Mark A. Hershberger [@hexmode]
• Thomas Jones-Low [@tjoneslo]
• MZMcBride [@mzmcbride]
• Elsie Hupp [@elsiehupp]