Manual:Pywikibot/Installation

Download Python
Requirement: To run pywikipediabot, Python v2.4 or higher is required, but Python v3.x isn't currently supported. Some of the code may work on Python version 2.3.


 * For Windows, download the latest Python v2.x here ( not 3.x version!! )
 * For Mac and Unix, Python is already present on Mac OS X and on some Unix versions (although it might be necessary or recommended to update it if you have a very old version).

Download PyWikipediaBot
The easiest way to download pywikipedia is to use the latest nightly release. All you have to do is download pywikipedia to your computer and decompress the file, there is no further installation required.

Download PyWikipediaBot with SVN
You can use SVN (subversion.tigris.org) to retrieve an up-to-date version of PyWikipediaBot. If you use Windows TortoiseSVN is advised. On a Mac, you can follow these instructions to install SVN.

To check out the source code using the command line SVN client use this command:



Or, without the spell-checking files (saves a while), add  :



With either of those commands the source code will be in a new directory inside your current working directory named  (the last argument is used as the destination directory).

For graphical tools, the only information needed is the repository path: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/