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I am trying to do this for ages, but there is a lot of old information and misdirections.

I just want to upload a file via command line. Can someone here point me to a clear reference resource where I can really learn how to do it?

sorry about the angry tone, lots of ours of failure.

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Hi, download and install Pywikibot according to Manual:Pywikibot/Installation and then run python pwb.py upload [parameters]. See https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/master/scripts/scripts.html?highlight=upload#module-scripts.upload for more details about the parameters. Also feel free to ask about anything unclear.

When you click the link , it shows "Not available"

Current link: https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/scripts_ref/scripts.html#module-scripts.upload

In the end it all worked by:

Installing pywikibot via pip

Adding user-config.py file to the same folder as upload.py (and the directory of the files to upload too)

Running the uploads script

I was not able to specify some things, though, like wikidata items depicted, or choose the proper license, or adding a legend. Any tips on that?

Thanks!

Can anyone prepare the video tutorial of uploading photos using command line (python) into Wikimedia Commons

Just read the docs, there's everything

Not everything is supported by Pywikibot currently, see T223820. You can update upload.py script or write your own script using this brief manual, this basic template and this api module if you need specific feature not yet supported by Pywikibot. You could also propose a patch to Pywikibot if you manage to fix any of these.

There is a parameter that allows for adding a file description string; this will become the wiki code of the Commons page of the file that you uploaded. By the way, the best description of parameters is to be found in upload.py itself, in my opinion. It's more clear than the documentations online.

python3 pwb.py upload "path/to/some_file.png" -summary:"uploaded with pywikibot" "source code string of the file page" -ignorewarn -always -keep

So in the source code string, you can include everything that you usually find on a Commons page (in wiki syntax), like filedesc with the information template, the license-header with the license template of your choice and categories. --Hbf878 (talk) 14:56, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Okay, thank you for the answers!

I will take a look and try to figure a way of doing it.

Hello, we often get requests from smaller wiki communities part of the Small Wiki Toolkits initiative to learn how to create, deploy, run, and manage bots. Most of the requests are from novice programmers. As we do not have enough mentors in our technical community to address these needs, I am wondering if folks here might be interested in running a few sessions/workshops and helping develop a curriculum on the topic in the coming months. Thoughts?

Hello User:SSethi (WMF),

in the process of getting into pwb, I'd do something similar of said curriculum either way. If there is still an interest in such a guide, please let me know.

Best regards

Tim from BorgNetzWerk

CMD writing no module named pywikibot when i start login.py

Looks like your cmd has opened the "../core/scripts" path. You should start from parent "core" path and use the pwb.py wrapper script:

pwb.py login

And when i write python pwb.py login it said no module named request.

You have to install request module as a side package first. Read the message and do as proposed. The message is:

Python module 'requests' is required.

Try running 'pip install requests'

do it with the command

pip install requests

I executed "pip install requests", it did so, but the same error doesn't go away. I tried both Python 3.6 and 2.7, it's the same with both.

Hello, can you type python pwb.py version and post here what you obtain ?

This doesn't even work for me, as it gets an error in line 163 of pwb.py

Did you installed requests for both python releases?

I installed 2.7 after trying 3.6. I eventually got things to work after installing pip seperately again and then installing requests via "pip install requests" and restarting. I may have repeated this some times and can't pinpoint what got things to work, but i eventually got it to work.

'pip install requests' doesnt work

What is your python version? I propose using 2.7.9 or higher or 3.4 or higher release because the en:python package installer (pip) is shipped with these versions. Otherwise you have to install pip first.

I have 3.4 but still it isnt pip in it. How do i install it?

Maybe this could help.

I solved the issue using pip install pywikibot ~~~~

This is always good enough if you have your own scripts based on pywikibot. If you want to use scripts shipped with pywikibot you have to clone/checkout the repository (either git or svn) or you can download the nightly from https://pywikibot.org. There are only some maintenance scripts which you can use if pywikibot is installed as a site-package like you did it. Refer https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/utilities/scripts.html for the description.

I'm running 1.35 and use $wgNamespaceProtection to restrict edit access to several namespaces, including the mainspace. ($wgNamespaceProtection[NS_MAIN] = ['main-edit'])

When I try to make an edit with pywikibot (add_text for example), the bot logs in and reads the page properly, but I'm told that the bot lacks permissions to edit in the "Page" namespace". I've made sure that both the bot and the associated user have the ['main-edit'] = true permission.

When I remove that configuration, the bot edits just fine. It edits other namespaces that don't have the special permission structure.

Is there anything I can do to get around this, other than constantly protecting/unprotecting the namespace.

How is your bot authenticating? If you're using BotPasswords or OAuth, you need to make sure the "main-edit" permission is in an appropriate grant (see Manual:$wgGrantPermissions) so the bot session actually has that permission.

I'm trying the Manual:Pywikibot/weblinkchecker.py to obtain broken links on the page "Aeroflot" on test.wikipedia.org. It does generate a "deadlinks-wikipedia-test.dat" file. I am looking for a ".txt" file, but that isn't generated by re-running the command a second time as per instructions given in the manual. Also, I've modified the settings in "user-config.py" to set "report_dead_links_on_talk" to true to report the dead links on the talk page. That also doesn't seem to be working. Any leads?

After how long did you re-run the script and what was your command (did you set -day)? Usually with most parameters left in defaults you have to run the script and then re-run the script between one and two weeks later. Only then it will generate the second txt file and talk pages memos as expected.

I'm looking for examples of active, helpful, and popular bots and tools that rely on the Pywikibot framework that we can highlight in an upcoming workshop on the topic as part of the "Small wiki toolkits" initiative. If you could point me to some examples, that would be super useful. Thank you!

https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/master/scripts/index.html

See w:Category:Wikipedia bots using Pywikibot; there are a few dead bots there, but also a few active ones, including double redirect fixing bots.

Hello. How I can count the number of sections on a page? --ElBe (talk) 18:37, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

You could create a script using extract_sections method from textlib (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/PWBC/browse/master/pywikibot/textlib.py). Or perhaps use external libraries like mwparserfromhell/wikitextparser to do that.

Ok, thanks. I will try it. --ElBe (talk) 05:23, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

If I use

if not pywikibot.Page.exists('Page'):
    #Do something

I get the error

[...]    
    title = self._link.canonical_title()
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute '_link'
CRITICAL: Exiting due to uncaught exception <class 'AttributeError'>

What I have to do? --ElBe (talk) 20:31, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

I think you should use it like this:

if not pywikibot.Page('Page').exists():

Thank you! --ElBe (talk) 05:58, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

It works if I use

[...]
page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Page')

if not pywikibot.Page(page).exists():
   #Do something

Thank you! --ElBe (talk) 06:09, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi ElBe, this is not a proper idea but it works by a side effect:

exists()

is a method of a Page object, more precisely of a BasePage object. You have to create the object first to use it:

 page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Page')
 if not page.exists(): pass  # or do something sensefull

Your example works because

 pywikibot.Page(page)

clones the original page and creates a new Page object. This functionality to implemented to upcast objects e.g.

 fp = pywikibot.FilePage(page)

which creates a FilePage object and provides further methods. But keep in mind that page must be in File: namespace here.

Refer: https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/master/api_ref/pywikibot.page.html?highlight=exists#pywikibot.page.BasePage.exists

I wanted to create a bunch of pages using add_text.py, but I get the error message

WARNING: Page [[de:xyz]] does not exist on wikipedia.de.

I there any possibility to suppress this error message and to create the pages anyway?

Schau Dir das mal an:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/pywikibot/core/+/721297

Thank you! I am looking forward to seeing this going live.

Currently not because AddTextBot is derived from ExistingPageBot which skips existing pages. Maybe a -create option should be implemented?

I am interested in programming and there especially in a kind of programming that is nearly related to natural language. I am writing scripts in the programming language R with a SQL-Integration. I created a script for extracting out of a sentence with a defined structure the Variables. This can be used to write a Program in a scripting language with own defined structured sentences that is nearly related to the natural language and then convert it into the source code in a more detailed programming language. You can find the script in the following folder in my PAWS-Profile. The script from where it starts is called Structuredtexttranspiler 20211021.R .Do you think that defining sentences and mapping them to source code in Python can be useful for Pywikibot to make it for more people possible to use the framework. I dont have deeper understanding of Python but can help setting up sentences with a defined structure when you tell me how the Python equivalent looks like.

Currently I don't yet know what to mean by that. Perhaps there could be an operator interface which parses the more or less natural speeking "commands" to get the expected results. Or parsing such commands and translate it into SQL commands to retrieve data via SQL queries or pass them to our sparql interface.

I think that the current way how to use Pywikibot requires an understanding of programming and maybe that what I linked there is an possibilty to reduce the required knowledge about programming to make it possible for more people to use programming. The idea is to make what you say in the second sentence. Creating an operator interface which parses the more or less natural speeking "commands" to get the expected results.

Pywikibot can be operated without any programming knowledge, that's what Pywikibot existing scripts are for. You call the script together with its parameters. But this is a pretty old approach, not that modern. R-like languages are a modern approach, for sure. But creating an R interface to Pywikibot's Page, Site, Family, Pagegenerator, Bot ... objects is quite a lot of work. Basically you would have to be pretty good at Python and have pretty good understanding of how Pywikibot works to make this happen. First I would recommend you to explore the internals of Pywikibot, get some basic idea how it works and what are its key parts, then perhaps you would find more concrete way R lang can help the project. Also I should mention there was a Pywikibot competitor written in R, you should be able to find it being mentioned on Mediawiki.org's or English Wikipedia's Bot Help pages.