Manual:Pywikibot/Wikidata

This page is talking about to run python bots on Wikidata with using trunk pywikibot library.

Configurating
you must add this to your user-config.py: in order to use the wikidata-test-repo instead of the productive one add:

Creating a DataPage object
Different ways creating a DataPage an Page object for wikidata: REMEMBER: You can not change any item, value or label without getting data first

Getting data
Get the data in a simple way

Changing claims/statements
get guid e.g. from getentities.

Working with rewrite branch
As of 11182 this is the format. Write access will be added in shortly.

CAUTION: The methods and results may be changed in future

Example
Simple example for creating new items.

Caution: Use this code snippet with care. It does not test whether a data repository item already exists. It only test whether it exists for a given site page. This could also mean that a given site page as no language link on a given repository page. This must be checked before a page is created.