Manual:Pywikibot/Compat/copyright.py

Copyright.py is a script of the Pywikipedia bot framework that checks copyright text in Google and Yahoo.

Google search requires to install the pyGoogle module from http://pygoogle.sf.net and get a Google API license key from http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/ (but since December 2006 Google is no longer issuing new SOAP API keys).

Yahoo! search requires pYsearch module from http://pysearch.sourceforge.net and a Yahoo AppID from http://developer.yahoo.com.

Before use the script you have to add this line:

yahoo_appid = 'YOURYAHOOKEY'

to user-config.py, otherwise it won't work.

You can run the bot with the following commandline parameters:


 * g
 * Use Google search engine


 * ng
 * Do not use Google


 * y
 * Use Yahoo! search engine


 * ny
 * Do not use Yahoo!


 * maxquery
 * Stop after a specified number of queries for page (default: 25)


 * new
 * Check only the new pages


 * repeat
 * output
 * Use this option to enable the output
 * Append results to a specified file (default: 'copyright/output.txt')


 * file
 * Work on all pages given in a local text file. Will read any wiki link and use these articles. Argument can also be given as "-file:filename".


 * cat
 * Work on all pages which are in a specific category. Argument can also be given as "-cat:categoryname".


 * subcat
 * When the pages to work on have been chosen by -cat, pages in subcategories of the selected category are also included. When -cat has not been selected, this has no effect.


 * page
 * Only check a specific page. Argument can also be given as "-page:pagetitle". You can give this parameter multiple times to check multiple pages.


 * ref
 * Work on all pages that link to a certain page. Argument can also be given as "-ref:referredpagetitle".


 * filelinks
 * Works on all pages that link to a certain image. Argument can also be given as "-filelinks:ImageName".


 * links
 * Work on all pages that are linked to from a certain page. Argument can also be given as "-links:linkingpagetitle".


 * start
 * Work on all pages in the wiki, starting at a given page.


 * namespace:n
 * Number of namespace to process. The parameter can be used multiple times.

Examples:

If you want to check first 50 new articles then use this command:

python copyright.py -ng -y -new:50

If you want to check a category with no limit for number of queries to request, use this:

python copyright.py -ng -y -cat:"Wikipedia featured articles" -maxquery:0