Py-3rdparty-mediawiki

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What is it

Extended functionality for

1. pywikibot
2. mwclient

Github

• https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/py-3rdparty-mediawiki

Installation

git clone https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/py-3rdparty-mediawiki
./install

wikipush / wikuser script

This script is in the scripts directory. It should be linked with two names

ln wikipush wikiuser

and be added to your path e.g by doing a symbolic link

cd $HOME/bin
ln -s $HOME/Documents/pyworkspace/py-3rdparty-mediawiki/scripts/wikipush .
ln -s $HOME/Documents/pyworkspace/py-3rdparty-mediawiki/scripts/wikiuser .

#!/bin/bash
# WF 2020-10-31
# wrapper for wikipush python
script=$(readlink -nf $BASH_SOURCE)
scriptname=$(basename $script)
scriptdir=$(dirname $script)
base=$scriptdir/..
export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:$base"
case $scriptname in
   "wikipush")
	python -m wikibot.wikipush "$@"
	;;
   "wikiuser")
	python -m wikibot.wikiuser "$@"
	;;
   *)
	echo "undefined script behavior:  $scriptname"
	;;
esac

WikiPush

WikiPush allows to copy pages from one wiki to another including the images on the page. To identify yourself you use the credential property files created with the wikiuser script (using python) or the Mediawiki-Japi CommandLine

usage

wikipush -h
family and mylang are not set.
Defaulting to family='test' and mylang='test'.
usage: wikipush.py [-h] [-d] [-V] [-l] [-f] [-i] [-q QUERY] -s SOURCE -t
                   TARGET [-p PAGES [PAGES ...]]

Created on 2020-10-29

  Created by Wolfgang Fahl on 2020-10-31.
  Copyright 2020 Wolfgang Fahl. All rights reserved.

  Licensed under the Apache License 2.0
  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Distributed on an "AS IS" basis without warranties
  or conditions of any kind, either express or implied.

USAGE

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d, --debug           set debug level [default: None]
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -l, --login           login to source wiki for access permission
  -f, --force           force to overwrite existing pages
  -i, --ignore          ignore upload warnings e.g. duplicate images
  -q QUERY, --query QUERY
                        select pages with given SMW ask query
  -s SOURCE, --source SOURCE
                        source wiki id
  -t TARGET, --target TARGET
                        target wiki id
  -p PAGES [PAGES ...], --pages PAGES [PAGES ...]
                        list of page Titles to be pushed

WikiUser

WikiUser.py creates credential files and assigns a WikiId under which you can now operate. This simplifies access to your wiki. The credential file is compatible to the Java Mediawiki-Japi see CommandLine#Credential_mode

usage

wikiuser -h
usage: wikiuser.py [-h] [-d] [-V] [-e EMAIL] [-f FILEPATH] [-l URL]
                   [-s SCRIPTPATH] [-p PASSWORD] [-u USER] [-v VERSION]
                   [-w WIKIID] [-y]

WikiUser credential handling

  Created by Wolfgang Fahl on 2020-10-31.
  Copyright 2020 Wolfgang Fahl. All rights reserved.

  Licensed under the Apache License 2.0
  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Distributed on an "AS IS" basis without warranties
  or conditions of any kind, either express or implied.

USAGE

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d, --debug           set debug level [default: None]
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -e EMAIL, --email EMAIL
                        email of the user
  -f FILEPATH, --file FILEPATH
                        ini-file path
  -l URL, --url URL     url of the wiki
  -s SCRIPTPATH, --scriptPath SCRIPTPATH
                        script path
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        password
  -u USER, --user USER  os user id
  -v VERSION, --wikiVersion VERSION
                        version of the wiki
  -w WIKIID, --wikiId WIKIID
                        wiki Id
  -y, --yes             immediately store without asking

Example

E.g. if you have an account on www.semantic-mediawiki.org you can start wikiuser in interactive mode.

wikiuser
email: john@doe.com
scriptPath: /w
user: jd
url: http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org
version: Mediawiki 1.33
wikiId: smw
password: *****
shall i store jd smw? yes/no y/ny

Now you can e.g. use "smw" as the wikiid for this wiki when using wikipush

Prerequisites

You might want to prepare some credential ini files with the wikiuser script or Mediawiki-Japi CommandLine.

user-config.py

pywikibot expects a user-config.py file. The minimum recommended file for intranet usecases is:

# https://stackoverflow.com/a/60885381/1497139
# Slow down the robot such that it never makes a second page edit within
# 'put_throttle' seconds.
put_throttle = 0

The easiest way is to put it at $HOME/.pywikibot/user-config.py

Features

Encrypted credential handling

Py-3rdparty-mediawiki allows using pywikibot by simply giving each wiki an id and using the credential information created by MediaWiki-Japi. The needed family file is automatically created and registered. If you'd like to get a pure python solution for credential handling please file an issue on github - it's no big deal but i personally don't need it yet since i'm fine with the new CommandLine feature added recently.

Semantic MediaWiki API support

see https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/py-3rdparty-mediawiki/issues/1

Example

from wikibot.wikibot import WikiBot
wikibot=WikiBot.ofWikiId("test2")
wikibot.site ...