Manual:Pywikibot

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shortcut: PWB

Manual on MediaWiki Tools

Pywikibot Release status: beta
Implementation	Bot
Description	Collection of Python scripts for automated editing of MediaWiki wikis.
Author(s)	various
Latest version	pywikibot
License	Expat License
Download	Nightly dump

The Pywikibot, short PWB (former names Python Wikipediabot Framework, Pywikipediabot or Pywikipedia) is a collection of tools that automate work on MediaWiki sites. Originally designed for Wikipedia, it is now used throughout the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and on many other MediaWiki wikis. It is written in Python, which is a free, cross-platform programming language. This page provides links to general information for people who want to use the bot software.

→ Main article: Manual:Pywikibot/Communication

This project in Gerrit, Gitblit, GitHub and Bugzilla.

Sign up to the main mailing list for asking questions and sharing information, or view the archives. Mailing lists for Bugtracker monitoring and Git Commits are also available.

Use the #pywikibot IRC channel^connect for quick questions.

Translate Pywikibot using translatewiki.net.

Table of contents

Installation

• General
• Windows Technical Notes
• Mac & UNIX

Configuration

• user-config.py
• Use on third-party wikis

Using Pywikibot

• Basic use
• Scripts
• Create your own script
• Wikidata

Participating in pywikibot development

• Guidelines
• Communication
• Development
• Recipes

See also

• Wikipedia:Creating a bot
• Pywikibot course at Wikiversity
• Pywikibot at Wikibooks
• Launch pywikipedia from the Internet (without installation) (dead since 2014)
• Botwiki – the (semi-)official pywikipedia wiki (inactive since 2011)
  • Speed guide for pywikipediabot – Another guide
• mwparserfromhell (wikicode parser written in Python)

Other Python bots

• wikitools
• mwclient