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

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.

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 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 ...