Page operations¶
Start by connecting to your site:
>>> from mwclient import Site
>>> site = mwclient.Site('en.wikipedia.org')
For information about authenticating, please see the section on authenticating.
Editing or creating a page¶
To get the wikitext for a specific page:
>>> page = site.pages['Greater guinea pig']
>>> text = page.text()
If a page doesn’t exist, Page.text()
just returns an empty string. If you need to test the existence of the
page, use page.exists:
>>> page.exists
True
Edit the text as you like before saving it back to the wiki:
>>> page.save(text, 'Edit summary')
If the page didn’t exist, this operation will create it.
Listing page revisions¶
Page.revisions()
returns a List object
that you can iterate over using a for loop. Continuation
is handled under the hood so you don’t have to worry about it.
Example: Let’s find out which users did the most number of edits to a page:
>>> users = [rev['user'] for rev in page.revisions()]
>>> unique_users = set(users)
>>> user_revisions = [{'user': user, 'count': users.count(user)} for user in unique_users]
>>> sorted(user_revisions, key=lambda x: x['count'], reverse=True)[:5]
[{'count': 6, 'user': u'Wolf12345'},
{'count': 4, 'user': u'Test-bot'},
{'count': 4, 'user': u'Mirxaeth'},
{'count': 3, 'user': u'192.251.192.201'},
{'count': 3, 'user': u'78.50.51.180'}]
Tip: If you want to retrieve a specific number of revisions, the
itertools.islice
method can come in handy:
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from time import mktime
>>> from itertools import islice
>>> for revision in islice(page.revisions(), 5):
... dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(mktime(revision['timestamp']))
... print '{}'.format(dt.strftime('%F %T'))
Other page operations¶
There are many other page operations like
backlinks()
,
embeddedin()
,
etc. See the API reference
for more.