Free Software Directory:Participate/Using pywikibot

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You can also use pywikibot to work from the command line.

Setup

Create and activate an "isolated" virtual environment only for pywikibot (might be optional).

$ virtualenv --python=python3 v
$ source v/bin/activate

Clone the project, install and setup the bot.

$ git clone "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/pywikibot/core.git"; cd core
$ pip install -r "requirements.txt"
$ python generate_family_file.py
Please insert URL to wiki: http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please insert a short name: fsd

$ python3 pwb.py listpages -family:fsd -lang:en -debug -page:loomio -get

... Shows Loomio content.

Sample Python script to display the information from a given page

import os

import pywikibot
from pywikibot import config2

log = logging.getLogger(__name__)


class FSD(object):

    def __init__(self):
        config2.register_family_file(
            'fsd', os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
                                'families/fsd_family.py'))
        self.site = pywikibot.Site(code="en", fam="fsd")

    def get(self, title):
        p = pywikibot.Page(pywikibot.Link(title, self.site))
        for (template, params) in p.templatesWithParams():
            if template.title() == 'Template:Entry':
                return params

print(str(FSD().get('loomio')))