Mediawiki Tools

wikidetails.yml & Write access:

Ensure user account belongs to bot group: see wiki page Special:UserRights

Create a bot password in wiki page: Special:BotPasswords

copy wikidetails.template.yml as wikidetails.yml and fill in bot name and password:
cp wikidetails.template.yml wikidetails.yml

Use as Python package in another application/script

Generate distribution packages

python setup.py bdist_wheel

Import as package, in another script

pip install path/to/mediawikitools/dist/mediawikitools-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl

Ensure: wikidetails.yml is in the root dir of the new script

from mediawikitools.wiki import actions
actions.edit(page='Test', content='test from another script')

run tests

tox
will run tests and detect flake8s

python -m pytest
will run the tests/test*.py

pytest optional aguments

python -m pytest -m read

• Second -m stands for marker; currently test use markers: read, write
• -s show print statements as they are executed in stdout
• --log-cli-level log level. Option: DEBUG, INFO Default: INFO.

flake8 somefile
lint checks