Help:Bots

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Running your own bot

  • {{ #ifeq:
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| www.mediawiki.org | meta:pywikipediabot | meta:pywikipediabot }}

For what use? E.g. add a footer to some categorized pages,[1] add some wikilinks,[2] archive in moving old talk to subpages,[3] edit categories,[4] manage templates.[5]
Crystal Clear action run.png
  1. {{ #ifeq: medrevise.co.uk | www.mediawiki.org | add_text.py | add_text.py }}
  2. {{ #ifeq: medrevise.co.uk | www.mediawiki.org | replace.py | replace.py }}
  3. {{ #ifeq: medrevise.co.uk | www.mediawiki.org | archivebot.py | archivebot.py }}
  4. {{ #ifeq: medrevise.co.uk | www.mediawiki.org | category.py | category.py }}
  5. {{ #ifeq: medrevise.co.uk | www.mediawiki.org | template.py | template.py }}

Frameworks and interfaces for bot development

See '{{ #ifeq:
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| www.mediawiki.org | API:Client Code | API:Client Code }} MediaWiki {{ #ifeq:

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| www.mediawiki.org | API | API }} is for convenient access to machine-readable data.

See also

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| www.mediawiki.org | meta:Bot | meta:Bot }}

Tools.svg Tip for wiki admins:
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www.mediawiki.org Manual:User rights management Manual:User rights management

}} for setting bot access.

  • {{ #ifeq:
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www.mediawiki.org robots.txt robots.txt

}} tells external web robots how to index your site.

  • {{ #ifeq:
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www.mediawiki.org Extension:MassEditRegex Extension:MassEditRegex

}} - to allow regular expression edits through a special page.