Manual:Pywikibot/add text.py

This is a script which helps to add a text at the end of the page but above categories, interwiki and template for the stars of the interwiki (default setting), or add a text at the top of the page.

This needs Python with at least v2.7 as stated on Manual:Pywikibot/Installation.

Parameters

These command line parameters can be used to specify which pages to work on:

-cat                Targets entries within a specific category
-page               Use a page as generator
-file               Read a list of pages to treat from the named text file. Page titles in the file must be 
                    enclosed with [[brackets]] or separated by newlines. Argument can also be given as "-file:filename".

Furthermore, the following command line parameters are supported:

-text               Define which text to add
-talkpage           Put the text onto the talk page instead
-summary            Define the summary to use
-except             Use a regex to check if the text is already in the page *
-excepturl          Use the html page as text where you want to see if there's the text, not the wiki-page.
-newimages          Add text in the new images
-untagged           Add text in the images that don't have any license template
-always             If used, the bot won't ask if it should add the text specified
-up                 If used, put the text at the very top of the page *

For more command line parameters, run the bot help command for example: python pwb.py add_text -help | more

Example

Adding a template to specific pages

It will add the text "{{Documentation subpage}}" at the very top of the pages with "Category:Template documentation", except for those which already include it.

$ python pwb.py add_text -cat:template_documentation -text:"{{Documentation subpage}}" -except:"\{\{([Tt]emplate:|)[Dd]ocumentation [Ss]ubpage" -up

• -cat:template_documentation : only target entries categorized in the page of "Category:Template documentation"
• -text:"{{Documentation subpage}}" : add the template "{{Documentation subpage}}" (excluding the quotes)
  • To insert return code, use "\n". But, if you use "-up" option, it becomes invalid.
• -except:"\{\{([Tt]emplate:|)[Dd]ocumentation [Ss]ubpage" : regex commands to exclude entries which have this template already in the page
• -up : Put the text at the top of the page instead

Another example:

$ python pwb.py add_text -cat:catname -summary:"Bot: Adding a template" -text:"{{Something}}" -except:"\{\{([Tt]emplate:|)[Ss]omething" -up

Adding category to pages without any category

This is a real instance that is used on Wikipedia to put a template on a page without any category, because if there are any hidden categories, the page will be defined as categorized.

$ python pwb.py add_text -excepturl:"class='catlinks'>" -uncat -text:"{{Categorizzare}}" -except:"\{\{([Tt]emplate:|)[Cc]ategorizzare" -summary:"Bot: Aggiungo template Categorizzare"

Global arguments available

These options will override the configuration in user-config.py settings.

Global options

Parameter	Description	Config variable
-dir:PATH	Read the bot's configuration data from directory given by PATH, instead of from the default directory.
-lang:xx	Set the language of the wiki you want to work on, overriding the configuration in user-config.py. xx should be the language code.	mylang
-family:xyz	Set the family of the wiki you want to work on, e.g. wikipedia, wiktionary, wikitravel, ... This will override the configuration in user-config.py.	family
-user:xyz	Log in as user 'xyz' instead of the default username.	usernames
-daemonize:xyz	Immediately return control to the terminal and redirect stdout and stderr to file xyz. (only use for bots that require no input from stdin).
-help	Show the help text.
-log	Enable the log file, using the default filename 'script_name-bot.log' Logs will be stored in the logs subdirectory.	log
-log:xyz	Enable the log file, using 'xyz' as the filename.	logfilename
-nolog	Disable the log file (if it is enabled by default).
-maxlag	Sets a new maxlag parameter to a number of seconds. Defer bot edits during periods of database server lag. Default is set by config.py	maxlag
-putthrottle:n -pt:n -put_throttle:n	Set the minimum time (in seconds) the bot will wait between saving pages.	put_throttle
-debug:item -debug	Enable the log file and include extensive debugging data for component "item" (for all components if the second form is used).	debug_log
-verbose -v	Have the bot provide additional console output that may be useful in debugging.	verbose_output
-cosmeticchanges -cc	Toggles the cosmetic_changes setting made in config.py or user-config.py to its inverse and overrules it. All other settings and restrictions are untouched.	cosmetic_changes
-simulate	Disables writing to the server. Useful for testing and debugging of new code (if given, doesn't do any real changes, but only shows what would have been changed).	simulate
-<config var>:n	You may use all given numeric config variables as option and modify it with command line.