Manual:Pywikibot/Compat/copyright.py

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

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 (Debian and Ubuntu package this as  or , depending on your version) and a Yahoo AppID from http://developer.yahoo.com. (For Wikimedia projects, a Yahoo! BOSS key exists.)

Windows Live Search requires to install the SOAPpy module from http://pywebsvcs.sf.net (Debian and Ubuntu package this as ) and get an AppID from http://search.msn.com/developer.

Configuration
Before use the script you have to add to user-config.py one or more search engine keys. For example:

Examples
If you want to check first 50 new articles then use this command: python copyright.py -new:50

If you want to check a category with no limit for number of queries to request, use this: python copyright.py -cat:"Wikipedia featured articles" -maxquery:0