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 Gerrit (GitHub mirror, Diffusion 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

• Pywikibot compatibility with Python and MediaWiki
• Help:Creating a bot
• mwparserfromhell (wikicode parser written in Python)
• Other Python bots

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News

2020-04-04

Python 3.9.4 hotfix was released.

2020-04-02

Python 3.9.3 final and Python 3.8.9 final were released.

2021-03-20

A new stable release 6.0.1 has been deployed. It is marked with stable tag.

2021-03-16

A new stable release 6.0.0 has been deployed.

 Note: This release is no longer supporting MediaWiki 1.19―1.22.

2021-01-24

A new stable release 5.6.0 has been deployed.

 Note: This is the last release supporting MediaWiki 1.19―1.22.

2021-01-12

A new stable release 5.5.0 has been deployed.

2020-09-13

 Note: Python 3.5 has reached its end of life.