Where can I find a good mwclient introduction?

Question

I'm just starting with mwclient. I'm going to create bots to query our MediaWiki database and make small revisions.

But I cannot find anywhere a simple list of python commands like how to get ages of pages, contents of categories, contents of pages, etc.

Does anyone know a good starters resource?

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 06 '19 at 15:59

3

The official docs at https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient/wiki have some introductory tutorials. I'm in charge for documentation for mwclient but haven't had enough time to really expand them - could use help from anyone who is willing.

edited Feb 06 '19 at 15:59

James Whiteley

3,363
1
19
46

answered Jan 03 '13 at 04:46

Chiara Coetzee

4,201
1
24
20

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 23 '10 at 13:12

2

One of my colleagues just sent me a link to the MediaWiki API wiki page.

answered Sep 23 '10 at 13:12

Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE

3,528
5
41
64

1

I've been playing with `mwclient` for some weeks now and, weirdly, this is a pretty good advice — maybe I'm missing some python documentation command, but `help()` only shows the defaults, the API page shows all the possible values. – njsg Mar 06 '12 at 14:38

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 17 '11 at 12:49

I currently use python+urllib for API queries, and mwclient whenever I need to edit/create a page.

An useful place to get started with mwclient (read/edit/create a page):

http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/134/write-api-enabled-on-wikimedia-sites

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 24 '10 at 13:52

0

The Bot Manual also has tons of good info and links, e.g. creating a bot.

answered Sep 24 '10 at 13:52

Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE

3,528
5
41
64

Where can I find a good mwclient introduction?

4 Answers4