User:Geertivp/Training/Pywikibot/Install

pywikibot is a well-known Python Wiki bot.

It can be used with Wikimedia projects, as well as on a private Mediawiki server.

Here we will document how to use it on Wikimedia projects.

Prerequisites[edit]

Python

pip install requests

But this is already installed on a Mediawiki server.

Install[edit]

wget http://tools.wmflabs.org/pywikibot/core.tar.gz

Now restore it in a user account:

tar -xf core.tar.gz

mv core pywikibot

Configure[edit]

cd pywikibot

python pwb.py generate_user_files

vi user-config.py

password_file = 'user-password.py'
user_script_paths = ['scripts.userscripts']

touch user-password.py
chmod 600 user-password.py
vi user-password.py

( 'User', 'password' )

Test your setup[edit]

Test your login account:

python pwb.py login

Show user page:

python pwb.py shell

site = pywikibot.Site()
page = pywikibot.Page(site, u'User:Geertivp')
print page
text=page.text
print text

User script[edit]

cp scripts/basic.py scripts/userscripts/getuserpage.py

vi scripts/userscripts/getuserpage.py

def main(*args):
 site = pywikibot.Site()
 page = pywikibot.Page(site, u'User:Geertivp')
 print page
 text=page.text
 print text

python pwb.py getuserpage

Create a page[edit]

python pwb.py shell

import pywikibot
site = pywikibot.Site()
page = pywikibot.Page(site, u'User:Geertivp/Pywikibot test')
print page
text=page.text
print text
page.text=u'Pywikibot test'
page.save(u'Pywikibot test')

Wikimedia links[edit]

Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools

https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot