Help:Bots

Running your own bot

 * Using the python wikipediabot
 * Manual:User rights management for setting bot access.
 * For what use? E.g. archive in moving old talk to subpages; edit category; replace template.

Frameworks and interfaces for bot development
API within MediaWiki for convenient access to machine-readable data.
 * Pywikipediabot (Python)
 * DotNetWikiBot Framework (.NET Framework 2.0, C#)
 * Java Wiki Bot Framework (Java)
 * Anura robot framework (Perl)
 * Bgbot (PHP)
 * PHP mediawiki bot (PHP)
 * SxWiki (PHP)

External web bots

 * → robots.txt - file which tells web robots how to index your site.