Manual:Pywikibot/archivebot.py

The archivebot.py is a script to archive discussion pages.

How it works?
The bot examines backlinks (Special:Whatlinkshere) to the requested page(s). It then goes through all pages (or a specific page if specified using options) and archives old discussions. This is done by breaking a page into threads, then scanning each thread for timestamps. Threads older than a specified threshold are then moved to another page (the archive), the name of which can be based on either the thread's name or a counter that is incremented when the archive reaches a certain size. For a documentation on on-wiki setup, please see arcbot-setup>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot/archivebot.py/setup|archivebot.py/setup.

Parameters
 Usage: archivebot.py [options] TEMPLATE_PAGE

Options: -help          show this help message and exit -calc:PAGE     calculate key for PAGE and exit -file:FILE     load list of pages from FILE -force         override security options -locale:LOCALE switch to locale LOCALE -namespace:NS  only archive pages from a given namespace -page:PAGE     archive a single PAGE, default ns is a user talk page -salt:SALT     specify salt -simulate        Do not change pages, just simulate