Manual:Pywikibot/Recipes

On this page you will find short snippets of code showing the framework usage by the various bots.

edit

Iterate through wiki pages (possibly with additional filters), and for each page get all listed languagelinks.

query&generator=allpages&gapfrom=T&prop=langlinks
  • API langlinks limits could make result incomplete for any page without any notification, making batch processing much more difficult - client needs to do more querycontinue calls to know there are no more langlinks for the specific page.


Pywikibot
# Please write the proper code snippet here


edit

For a user-supplied list of titles, resolve redirects and get their language links.

query&prop=langlinks&titles=T|TT&redirects
Pywikibot
# Please write the proper code snippet here


edit

For each page in a set, if redirect, resolve to the redirect target, and get all links and all categories listed. Only link's namespace+title is needed.

query&prop=links|categories&titles=Archiver|Abstract%20(law)&pllimit=300&redirects
Pywikibot
# Please write the proper code snippet here


edit

From all pages in a wiki (possibly filtered), get all links and all categories listed. Only link's namespace+title is needed. Result pages (not links) might need to be edited.

query&generator=allpages&gapfrom=T&prop=links|categories
Pywikibot
# Please write the proper code snippet here


Modify a page

edit

Given a page title, get the page content (if redirect, get the target), change and save it.

query&titles=Think&redirects&prop=revisions&rvprop=content
edit&summary=...&text=...&token=...
Pywikibot
# This sample does not resolve redirects. Need more feedback.
page = pywikibot.Page(pywikibot.Site('en'), 'Think')
oldcontent = page.get()
newcontent = oldcontent.replace('this', 'that')
page.put(newcontent, 'Bot: Edit')


If you need more help on setting up your Pywikibot visit the #pywikibot IRC channel connect or pywikibot@ mailing list.