Help:Bots/ca

Un (ro)bot és un programa informàtic que recupera o actualitza automàticament les pàgines wiki quan s'executa. En general, els bots s'utilitzen per a tasques de manteniment repetitives, quan el volum i les característiques són massa grans per a ser realitzades manualment pels usuaris.

El desenvolupament i l'execució dels bots queda normalment fora del paper dels usuaris normals, requereix una experiència en programació i s'ha de fer en coordinació amb els administradors del wiki.

Per defecte, les edicions dels bots estan ocults en    :.

Framework and interface for bot development
Bots do not access the wiki through the normal graphical user interface. MediaWiki has an API (Application Programming Interface) available for this purpose. An API is a protocol for standardized communication between two computer programs. Check for more information.

To access a wiki through the API a bot must have a user account, which has been granted 'bot' permissions.

pywikibot
Pywikibot provides a framework for the development of bots, which are commonly used to perform maintenance tasks such as adding a footer to some categorized pages (add_text.py), adding some wikilinks, moving old contents of talk pages to subpages , editing categories , or managing templates.

wiki-java
wiki-java is a lightweight Java framework for bot/application development and can be used to perform various tasks, such as uploading files, adding text to articles, parsing templates, basic I/O, etc. The library also comes with simple, but powerful standalone bot methods that can be readily utilized by a programmer.

Extension alternatives

 * Extension:MassEditRegex provides an alternative way to perform mass edits using regular expressions, through a special page in the wiki. Only admins can normally use this extension.
 * Extension:ReplaceText is another option.