Manual:Pywikibot

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

Running a bot

• What is pywikibot?
• Learn how to install and configure pywikibot
• Discover which scripts are part of pywikibot
• Get more help

Writing a bot

• Learn how to write a basic script
• Learn how to connect to Wikidata
• Try some code snippets
• Get more help

Developing pywikibot

• Project:Pywikibot
• docs at wikimedia.org
• Gerrit, GitHub
• Phabricator
• Mailing lists and other support channelsManual:Pywikibot/Communication
• Translate Pywikibot using Translatewiki.nettranslatewiki.net.

See also

• Compat documentationManual:Pywikibot/Compat
• Wikipedia:Creating a bot
• mwparserfromhell (wikicode parser written in Python)
• Other Python botsAPI:Client code#Python