Manual:Pywikibot/pagegenerators.py/en

pagegenerators.py can generate a list of pages.

This module offers a wide variety of page generators. A page generator is an object that is iterable (see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0255/) and that yields page objects on which other scripts can then use.

Command line usage
The compat version of pagegenerators.py may be executed directly, for testing purposes.

Example:

This will return, in standard output, a list of all pages containing "foobar," as returned by MediaWiki's search engine.

The core version of pagegenerators.py may not be executed directly. Instead, the script is used.

Example:

This will also return, in standard output, a list of all pages containing "foobar," as returned by MediaWiki's search engine.

Parameters
These parameters are supported to specify which pages titles to print:


 * -cat: Work on all pages which are in a specific category. Argument can also be given as "-cat:categoryname" or as "-cat:categoryname|fromtitle".
 * -catr: Like -cat, but also recursively includes pages in subcategories, sub-subcategories etc. of the given category. Argument can also be given as "-catr:categoryname" or as "-catr:categoryname|fromtitle".
 * -subcats: Work on all subcategories of a specific category. Argument can also be given as "-subcats:categoryname" or as "-subcats:categoryname|fromtitle".
 * -subcatsr: Like -subcats, but also includes sub-subcategories etc. of the given category. Argument can also be given as "-subcatsr:categoryname" or as "-subcatsr:categoryname|fromtitle".
 * -uncat: Work on all pages which are not categorised.
 * -uncatcat: Work on all categories which are not categorised.
 * -uncatfiles: Work on all files which are not categorised.
 * -file: Read a list of pages to treat from the named text file. Page titles in the file must be enclosed with brackets or separated by newlines. Argument can also be given as "-file:filename".
 * -filelinks: Work on all pages that use a certain image/media file. Argument can also be given as "-filelinks:filename".
 * -yahoo: Work on all pages that are found in a Yahoo search. Depends on python module pYsearch. See yahoo_appid in config.py for instructions.
 * -search: Work on all pages that are found in a MediaWiki search across all namespaces.
 * -google: Work on all pages that are found in a Google search. You need a Google Web API license key. Note that Google doesn't give out license keys anymore. See google_key in config.py for instructions. Argument can also be given as "-google:searchstring".
 * -namespace: Filters the page generator to only yield pages in the specified namespaces. Separate multiple namespace numbers with commas.
 * -interwiki: Work on the given page and all equivalent pages in other languages. This can, for example, be used to fight multi-site spamming. Attention: this will cause the bot to modify pages on several wiki sites, this is not well tested, so check your edits!
 * -links: Work on all pages that are linked from a certain page. Argument can also be given as "-links:linkingpagetitle".
 * -new: Work on the 60 newest pages. If given as -new:x, will work on the x newest pages.
 * -imagelinks: Work on all images that are linked from a certain page. Argument can also be given as "-imagelinks:linkingpagetitle".
 * -newimages: Work on the 100 newest images. If given as -newimages:x, will work on the x newest images.
 * -ref: Work on all pages that link to a certain page. Argument can also be given as "-ref:referredpagetitle".
 * -start: Specifies that the robot should go alphabetically through all pages on the home wiki, starting at the named page. Argument can also be given as "-start:pagetitle". You can also include a namespace. For example, "-start:Template:!" will make the bot work on all pages in the template namespace.
 * -prefixindex: Work on pages commencing with a common prefix.
 * -titleregex: Work on titles that match the given regular expression.
 * -transcludes: Work on all pages that use a certain template. Argument can also be given as "-transcludes:Title" (without Template:prefix).
 * -unusedfiles: Work on all description pages of images/media files that are not used anywhere. Argument can be given as "-unusedfiles:n" where n is the maximum number of articles to work on.
 * -unwatched: Work on all articles that are not watched by anyone. Argument can be given as "-unwatched:n" where n is the maximum number of articles to work on.
 * -usercontribs: Work on all articles that were edited by a certain user. Example: -usercontribs:DumZiBoT
 * -weblink: Work on all articles that contain an external link to a given URL; may be given as "-weblink:url"
 * -withoutinterwiki: Work on all pages that don't have interlanguage links. Argument can be given as "-withoutinterwiki:n" where n is some number (??).
 * -random: Work on random pages returned by Special:Random. Can also be given as "-random:n" where n is the number of pages to be returned, else 10 pages are returned.
 * -randomredirect: Work on random redirect target pages returned by Special:Randomredirect. Can also be given as "-randomredirect:n" where n is the number of pages to be returned, else 10 pages are returned.
 * -gorandom: Specifies that the robot should starting at the random pages returned by Special:Random.
 * -recentchanges: Work on new and edited pages returned by Special:Recentchanges. Can also be given as "-recentchanges:n" where n is the number of pages to be returned, else 100 pages are returned.
 * -redirectonly: Work on redirect pages only, not their target pages. The robot goes alphabetically through all redirect pages on the wiki, starting at the named page. The argument can also be given as "-redirectonly:pagetitle". You can also include a namespace. For example, "-redirectonly:Template:!" will make the bot work on all redirect pages in the template namespace.

Calls from another program
Category crawler:

Subcategories explorer:

MySQL requests:

Please see the file content for more info.

Unicode recommendation
The following code returns KeyError: 'query' because of the special character:

If searching in user and mediawiki namespaces, it would look like

Consequently, an encoding conversion is needed:

It seems like the best documentation can be found at the source, pagegenerators.py.