Manual:Pywikibot/Create your own script

This page lists some very basic tips for getting started writing your own bot. Make sure you've set up your user-config.py file!

You can either use the following commands in a shell, or in a script.

To open a shell, run ;

As a script, please save the file as 'myscript.py' in the 'scripts/' directory; then run.


 * To gain access to the pywikipedia framework, use:


 * to retrieve a page, use the following, where pageName is the title of the page you would like to retrieve, e.g., "Wikipedia:Bots" or "India":


 * to update a page, use:


 * look at some of the pywikibot files for other ideas -- scripts/basic.py is relatively easy to read even if you're new to pywikibot.


 * you can find all available Page methods in the pywikibot/page.py file.


 * basic.py gives you a setup that can be used for many different bots, all you have to do is define the string editing on the page text.


 * To iterate over a set of pages, see pywikibot/pagegenerators.py (see also old-doc>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot/pagegenerators.py|old documentation) for some objects that return a set of pages. An example use of the CategoryPageGenerator that does something for each page in the Category:Living people category: