Connecting to your site

Begin by importing the Site class:

>>> from mwclient import Site

Then try to connect to a site:

>>> site = mwclient.Site('test.wikipedia.org')

Using HTTPS

If the site supports HTTPS, you can create a secure connection by passing in a tupple like so:

>>> site = mwclient.Site(('https', 'test.wikipedia.org'))

Note that HTTPS is planned to be the default for the next major version of mwclient.

The API endpoint location

The site’s API endpoint location depends on the configurable $wgScriptPath. Mwclient defaults to the script path ‘/w/’ used by the Wikimedia wikis. If you get a 404 Not Found or a mwclient.errors.InvalidResponse error upon connecting, your site might use a different script path. You can specify it using the path argument:

>>> site = mwclient.Site(('https', 'myawesomewiki.org'), path='/wiki/', )

Specifying a user agent

If you are connecting to a Wikimedia site, you should follow the Wikimedia User-Agent policy and identify your tool like so:

>>> ua = 'MyCoolTool. Run by User:Xyz. Using mwclient/0.8'
>>> site = mwclient.Site('test.wikipedia.org', clients_useragent=ua)

Logging in

To login to the wiki:

>>> site.login(username, password)

If login fails, a mwclient.errors.LoginError will be thrown.

Note that mwclient by default will protect you from editing if you should forget to login. If you actually want to edit without logging in, just set

>>> site.force_login = False

and mwclient won’t get in your way.

HTTP authentication

If your server is configured to use HTTP authentication, you can authenticate using the httpauth parameter. For Basic HTTP authentication:

>>> site = mwclient.Site('awesome.site', httpauth=('user', 'pass'))

You can also pass in any other authentication mechanism based on the requests.auth.AuthBase, such as Digest authentication:

>>> from requests.auth import HTTPDigestAuth
>>> site = mwclient.Site('awesome.site', httpauth=HTTPDigestAuth('user', 'pass'))