MediaWiki API/Pywikibot
The following code samples demonstrate functions that may be used in Python scripts with Pywikibot to access the MediaWiki API.
API Documentation edit
PAWS Test Platform edit
Wikimedia hosts a Pywikibot web shell for easy bot testing. See mw:Manual:Pywikibot/PAWS for more information.
Hello Pywikibot edit
Simple example to begin testing Pywikibot.
import pywikibot
site = pywikibot.Site('en', 'wikiversity')
page = pywikibot.Page(site, "Wikiversity:Sandbox")
title = page.title()
text = page.text
text += "\n\nHello from Pywikibot!"
try:
if page.text != text:
print(title)
page.text = text
page.save(summary='Testing Pywikibot', minor=True, botflag=True)
except Exception as exception:
print(exception)
More Sample Code edit
import pywikibot
import re
site = pywikibot.Site("en", "wikiversity")
def addsection(title, summary, text):
page = pywikibot.Page(site, title)
result = pywikibot.site.APISite.editpage(
site,
page=page,
summary=summary,
minor=False,
text=text,
section="new"
)
return result
def allimages(start="!", prefix="", reverse=False, step=None, total=None, content=False):
pages = pywikibot.site.APISite.allimages(
site,
start=start,
prefix=prefix,
reverse=reverse,
step=step,
total=total,
content=content
)
return pages
def allpages(prefix="", namespace=0, filterredir=None, content=False):
pages = pywikibot.site.APISite.allpages(
site,
prefix=prefix,
namespace=namespace,
filterredir=filterredir,
content=content
)
return pages
def allredirects(prefix="", namespace=0):
return allpages(
prefix=prefix,
namespace=namespace,
filterredir=True
)
def categorymembers(category):
category = pywikibot.Category(site, category)
pages = pywikibot.site.APISite.categorymembers(
site,
category=category
)
return pages
def editpage(title, summary, text, minor=True):
page = pywikibot.Page(site, title)
page.text = text
result = pywikibot.site.APISite.editpage(
site,
page=page,
summary=summary,
minor=minor
)
return result
def embeddedin(title, filterRedirects=None, namespaces=None, step=None, total=None, content=False):
page = pywikibot.Page(site, title)
pages = pywikibot.site.APISite.page_embeddedin(
site,
page=page,
filterRedirects = filterRedirects,
namespaces = namespaces,
step = step,
total = total,
content = content
)
return pages
def extlinks(title):
page = pywikibot.Page(site, title)
links = pywikibot.site.APISite.page_extlinks(
site,
page=page
)
return links
def logevents(title):
page = pywikibot.Page(site, title)
links = pywikibot.site.APISite.page_extlinks(
site,
page=page
)
return links
def movepage(title, newtitle, summary, noredirect=False):
page = pywikibot.Page(site, title)
page = pywikibot.site.APISite.movepage(
site,
page=page,
newtitle=newtitle,
summary=summary,
noredirect=noredirect
)
return page
def newfiles(user=None, start=None, end=None, reverse=False, step=None, total=None):
files = pywikibot.site.APISite.newfiles(
site,
start=start,
end=end,
reverse=reverse,
step=step,
total=total
)
return files
def pagebacklinks(title):
page = pywikibot.Page(site, title)
pages = pywikibot.site.APISite.pagebacklinks(
site,
page=page
)
return pages
def pagelinks(title):
page = pywikibot.Page(site, title)
pages = pywikibot.site.APISite.pagelinks(
site,
page=page
)
return pages
def get_allpages():
start = "!"
while (True):
try:
pages = allimages(start=start, total=10, content=True)
for page in pages:
print(page.title())
print(page.text)
start = page.title()
start = start[5:] + "!"
break
except:
break
def dump(obj):
for attr in dir(obj):
print("obj.%s = %s" % (attr, getattr(obj, attr)))
def files_missing_license(start, end):
tags = [
"{{information",
"{{pd",
"{{cc-by",
"{{gfdl",
"{{self",
"{{bsd",
"{{gpl",
"{{lgpl",
"{{free",
"{{copyright",
"{{fairuse",
"{{non-free",
"{{software",
"{{no license",
"{{no fairuse"
]
files = newfiles(
start=start,
end=end,
reverse=True)
result = list()
for file in files:
text = file[0].text.lower()
if not (any(word in text for word in tags)):
result.append(file)
return result
def filekey(file):
return file[2] + file[0].title()
def add_missing_license_information(start, end):
usermsg = (
"Thank you for uploading files to Wikiversity. See [[Wikiversity:Media]] for copyright and license requirements "
"for Wikiversity files. All files must have copyright and/or license information added to the file.\n\n"
"Instructions for adding copyright and/or license information are available at [[Wikiversity:License tags]]. "
"Files must be updated within seven days or they may be removed without further notice.\n\n"
"The following files are missing copyright and/or license information:\n"
)
summary = "Missing License Information"
files = files_missing_license(start, end)
files = sorted(files, key=filekey)
user = ""
print("== Files Missing License Information ==")
for file in files:
if user != file[2]:
if user != "":
title = "User_talk:" + user
text += "\n~~~~\n"
addsection(title, summary, text)
user = file[2]
text = usermsg
print(";[[User_talk:" + user + "]]")
title = file[0].title()
text += "* [[:" + title + "]]\n"
print(":[[:" + title + "]]")
addsection(title, summary, "{{subst:nld}}")
if user != "":
title = "User_talk:" + user
text += "\n~~~~\n"
addsection(title, summary, text)
def show_sister_backlinks(wiki, language = "en"):
global site
site = pywikibot.Site(language, wiki.lower())
pages = embeddedin(title = "Template:Wikiversity", namespaces = 0, content = True)
pages = sorted(pages)
for page in pages:
title = page.title()
regex = re.compile("{{wikiversity[^}]*}}", re.IGNORECASE)
match = regex.search(page.text)
if(match == None):
continue
text = match.group()
if(text.lower() == "{{wikiversity}}"):
print("* [[" + wiki + ":" + title + "]] -> [[" + title + "]]")
continue
match = re.search("\|[^|}]*[|}]", text)
if(match != None):
text = match.group()
text.replace("at=", "")
print("* [[" + wiki + ":" + title + "]] -> [[" + text[1:-1] + "]]")
continue
print(title + " -> " + text)