Pywikibot

Welcome to the Wikiversity learning project for Pywikibot (PWB). The Python Wikibot Framework is a set of bot scripts to do things on Wikipedia or other wikis using MediaWiki. It has been written by several people using the language Python. On this page, we give the general information for people who want to learn and use this bot software.

Course

Needed skills

General basics

• Lecture 1: Installing Pywikibot framework
• Lecture 2: Logging in
• Lecture 3: Invoking Python

Pywikibot basics

• Lecture 4: Importing basic modules
• Lecture 5: Getting one page
• Lecture 6: Writing simple "Hello, world!" in PWB
• Lecture 7: Practice

See also

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Pywikibot.

mw:Manual:pywikibot : The "official" manual at Mediawiki

• Pywikibot for Mac OSX - A "for dummies" introductory project aimed at Mac users unaccustomed to coding.
• MediaWiki API/Pywikibot