Manual:Chris G's botclasses

Chris G's botclasses is a PHP MediaWiki bot framework (formerly?) hosted at the Toolserver. They are derived from the wikibot.classes used by ClueBot. See also w:User:RMCD bot/botclasses.php and https://github.com/legoktm/harej-bots/blob/master/botclasses.php

Bots

HelloWorldBot.php

<?php
/*
 * HelloWorldBot.php
 * This bot edits Wikipedia:Sandbox.
/*

/* Setup my classes. */
include( 'botclasses.php' );
$wiki      = new wikipedia;
$wiki->url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
$wiki->setUserAgent( 'User-Agent: FooBot (https://mediawiki.org/wiki/User:FooBot)' );
 
/* All the login stuff. */
$user = 'REMOVED';
$pass = 'REMOVED';
$wiki->login( $user, $pass );
 
/* Test edit. */
$page = 'Wikipedia:Sandbox';
$content = 'Hello, world!';
$summary = 'This is a sample bot edit.';
$wiki->edit( $page, $content, $summary );

Other bots

• AllCategoryMembersBot.php — Retrieves a list of all members of a category and stores that list in a text file.
• AllPagesBot.php — Retrieves a list of all files on the wiki and stores that list in text files.
• DownloadAllImagesBot.php — Downloads all images from a wiki.
• ExportAllPagesBot.php — Exports all pages from a wiki and stores them in XML files.
• FixFileDescriptionPagesBot.php — Fixes file description pages whose contents were buried in the history when a description page import was done after the image import.
• ParseMirroredWikiIndexBot.php — Parses pages from the mirrored wikiindex to populate the parse_mirrored_wikiindex_bot.parsed_mirrored_wikiindex table.
• UploadBot.php — Upload a file.
• mediawiki-botclasses - Modification of botclasses to show wiki and category statistics. See more info.