Manual talk:Pywikibot/movepages.py
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File[edit]
What format should a file take to be used by this program? --Aquatiki 11:01, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- You can use
movingpages.py -pairs:"pairs.txt", where your file pairs.txt contains pairs of pages to move and their targets: [[PageToMove1]] [[Target1]]
[[PageToMove2]] [[Target2]]
[[PageToMove3]] [[Target3]]
...- --Plasmarelais 18:22, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
- I've developped a generator of this kind of file from a category. JackPotte 15:27, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Arguments[edit]
This may be a n00bish question, but why isn't there a full list of the available arguments for this script on the page? To get this, I had to run the script with the -help switch, which gave the following:
This script can move pages.
These command line parameters can be used to specify which pages to work on:
-cat Work on all pages which are in a specific category.
Argument can also be given as "-cat:categoryname" or
as "-cat:categoryname|fromtitle".
-catr Like -cat, but also recursively includes pages in
subcategories, sub-subcategories etc. of the
given category.
Argument can also be given as "-catr:categoryname" or
as "-catr:categoryname|fromtitle".
-subcats Work on all subcategories of a specific category.
Argument can also be given as "-subcats:categoryname" or
as "-subcats:categoryname|fromtitle".
-subcatsr Like -subcats, but also includes sub-subcategories etc. of
the given category.
Argument can also be given as "-subcatsr:categoryname" or
as "-subcatsr:categoryname|fromtitle".
-uncat Work on all pages which are not categorised.
-uncatcat Work on all categories which are not categorised.
-uncatfiles Work on all files which are not categorised.
-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".
-filelinks Work on all pages that use a certain image/media file.
Argument can also be given as "-filelinks:filename".
-yahoo Work on all pages that are found in a Yahoo search.
Depends on python module pYsearch. See yahoo_appid in
config.py for instructions.
-search Work on all pages that are found in a MediaWiki search
across all namespaces.
-google Work on all pages that are found in a Google search.
You need a Google Web API license key. Note that Google
doesn't give out license keys anymore. See google_key in
config.py for instructions.
Argument can also be given as "-google:searchstring".
-namespace Filters the page generator to only yield pages in the
specified namespaces. Separate multiple namespace
numbers with commas.
-interwiki Work on the given page and all equivalent pages in other
languages. This can, for example, be used to fight
multi-site spamming.
Attention: this will cause the bot to modify
pages on several wiki sites, this is not well tested,
so check your edits!
-links Work on all pages that are linked from a certain page.
Argument can also be given as "-links:linkingpagetitle".
-new Work on the 60 newest pages. If given as -new:x, will work
on the x newest pages.
-imagelinks Work on all images that are linked from a certain page.
Argument can also be given as "-imagelinks:linkingpagetitle".
-newimages Work on the 100 newest images. If given as -newimages:x,
will work on the x newest images.
-ref Work on all pages that link to a certain page.
Argument can also be given as "-ref:referredpagetitle".
-start Specifies that the robot should go alphabetically through
all pages on the home wiki, starting at the named page.
Argument can also be given as "-start:pagetitle".
You can also include a namespace. For example,
"-start:Template:!" will make the bot work on all pages
in the template namespace.
-prefixindex Work on pages commencing with a common prefix.
-titleregex Work on titles that match the given regular expression.
-transcludes Work on all pages that use a certain template.
Argument can also be given as "-transcludes:Template:Title".
-unusedfiles Work on all description pages of images/media files that are
not used anywhere.
Argument can be given as "-unusedfiles:n" where
n is the maximum number of articles to work on.
-unwatched Work on all articles that are not watched by anyone.
Argument can be given as "-unwatched:n" where
n is the maximum number of articles to work on.
-usercontribs Work on all articles that were edited by a certain user :
Example : -usercontribs:DumZiBoT
-weblink Work on all articles that contain an external link to
a given URL; may be given as "-weblink:url"
-withoutinterwiki Work on all pages that don't have interlanguage links.
Argument can be given as "-withoutinterwiki:n" where
n is some number (??).
-random Work on random pages returned by [[Special:Random]].
Can also be given as "-random:n" where n is the number
of pages to be returned, else 10 pages are returned.
-randomredirect Work on random redirect target pages returned by
[[Special:Randomredirect]]. Can also be given as
"-randomredirect:n" where n is the number of pages to be
returned, else 10 pages are returned.
-gorandom Specifies that the robot should starting at the random pages
returned by [[Special:Random]].
-recentchanges Work on new and edited pages returned by [[Special:Recentchanges]].
Can also be given as "-recentchanges:n" where n is the number
of pages to be returned, else 100 pages are returned.
Furthermore, the following command line parameters are supported:
-from and -to The page to move from and the page to move to.
-noredirect Leave no redirect behind.
-prefix Move pages by adding a namespace prefix to the names of the pages.
(Will remove the old namespace prefix if any)
Argument can also be given as "-prefix:namespace:".
-always Don't prompt to make changes, just do them.
-skipredirects Skip redirect pages (Warning: increases server load)
-summary Prompt for a custom summary, bypassing the predefined message
texts.
Argument can also be given as "-summary:XYZ".
-pairs Read pairs of file names from a file. The file must be in a format
[[frompage]] [[topage]] [[frompage]] [[topage]] ...
Argument can also be given as "-pairs:filename"
Adamcox82 12:24, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Examples[edit]
I expected the following line to work, but it doesn't:
python movepages.py -file:articles_list.txt -lang:en -family:wikisource -titleregex -from:"Page:Whatsocialclasse00sumnrich\.djvu/([0-9]+)" -to:"Page:What Social Classes Owe to Each Other.djvu/$1"
JackPotte 19:12, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
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Talk page[edit]
What about the talk page? Will it be moved with the page? --Plasmarelais (talk) 19:44, 25 June 2014 (UTC)