Manual:Pywikibot

Pywikibot is a Python library and collection of scripts that automate work on MediaWiki sites. Originally designed for Wikipedia, it is now used throughout the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and on many other wikis.

Running a bot

• What is Pywikibot?
• Learn how to install and configure Pywikibot
• Discover existing scripts for Pywikibot

Writing a bot

• Learn how to write a basic script
• Discover the docs at wikimedia.org
• Learn how to interact with Wikidata

Developing Pywikibot

• Learn how to contribute to Pywikibot
• Discover the source code on Diffusion (GitHub mirror, Codesearch tool)
• List bugs for Pywikibot
• Learn how to translate Pywikibot

Get help

• Use the #pywikibot IRC channel ^connect for quick questions
• Sign up to the main mailing list for asking complex questions or sharing information
• Get more help on other support channels
• Python 2 to Python 3 migration support
• Pywikibot compat to core migration support

See also

• Help:Creating a bot
• mwparserfromhell (wikicode parser written in Python)
• Other Python bots

News

2020-07

A new stable release 4.0 will be deployed which supports Python 3.5+ only

2020-06

The last version which supports Python 2.7 and 3.4

Python 2 support of Pywikibot will be dropped

Python 3.4 support of Pywikibot will be dropped

2020-05-08

A new stable Pywikibot release 3.0.20200508 is available. It is marked with stable tag and python2 tag.

2020-04-20

 Note: Python 2.7.18 is the last final Python 2 release

2020-01-01

 Note: Python 2 has reached its end of life