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.

Parameters
 Usage: archivebot.py [options] [LINKPAGE(s)]

Options: -h, --help           show this help message and exit -f FILE, --file=FILE load list of pages from FILE -p PAGE, --page=PAGE archive a single PAGE -n NAMESPACE, --namespace=NAMESPACE only archive pages from a given namespace -s SALT, --salt=SALT specify salt -F, --force          override security options -c PAGE, --calc=PAGE calculate key for PAGE and exit -l LOCALE, --locale=LOCALE switch to locale LOCALE -L lang, --lang=lang current language code -T TIMEZONE, --timezone=TIMEZONE switch timezone to TIMEZONE -S --simulate        Do not change pages, just simulate