Pywikibot/General basics/Installing Pywikibot framework

Documentation on Pywikipediabot page is very good. Use it for initial instructions.

In short, make a subdirectory inside of your working directory and go there:

$ mkdir mybot
$ cd mybot

Invoke Subversion checkout to download pywikipediabot:

$ svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/ pywikipedia

If you have a really slow connection, don't download spell-checking files:

$ svn checkout --ignore-externals http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/ pywikipedia

Pywikipediabot is a very active project. Because of that you should periodically (maybe daily, maybe weekly) update your copy:

$ cd pywikipedia/
$ svn update