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Help:Toolforge/Running Pywikibot scripts

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The Pywikibot framework is a Python library and collection of scripts to automate work on MediaWiki sites. This tutorial contains instructions on how to run Pywikibot's built-in scripts on Toolforge using the Toolforge jobs framework.

If you want to run a script that is not included with Pywikibot itself, follow the advanced Pywikibot tutorial.

Prerequisites

To effectively use Pywikibot on Toolforge, you need:

Setup

The provided Pywikibot image uses OAuth for authenticating with Wikimedia wikis. To set it up:

  1. Set up an owner-only OAuth 1.0a credential following the instructions at mw:Manual:Pywikibot/OAuth/Wikimedia#Registering your bot with the wiki software. The required dependencies are already installed and the configuration is included in the image.
  2. On Toolforge, create environment variables that contain the bot username and the four values you got when creating the OAuth credential:
    tools.mytool@tools-sgebastion-10:~$ toolforge envvars create PWB_USERNAME "Example"
    tools.mytool@tools-sgebastion-10:~$ toolforge envvars create PWB_CONSUMER_TOKEN "..."
    tools.mytool@tools-sgebastion-10:~$ toolforge envvars create PWB_CONSUMER_SECRET "..."
    tools.mytool@tools-sgebastion-10:~$ toolforge envvars create PWB_ACCESS_TOKEN "..."
    tools.mytool@tools-sgebastion-10:~$ toolforge envvars create PWB_ACCESS_SECRET "..."
    
  3. You are now ready to run Pywikibot scripts on Toolforge.

Running scripts

Use the toolforge jobs utility to run jobs using the jobs framework. The tool-pywikibot/pywikibot-scripts-stable:latest image is maintained by the Toolforge admin team and always points to the latest stable Pywikibot release.

This image and its method of running scripts does not read or write files in the tool's $HOME directory. This includes files like user-config.py and user-fixes.py that you may be used to using with other Pywikibot deployments.

Examples

To run a single job:

tools.mytool@tools-sgebastion-10:~$ toolforge jobs run --image tool-pywikibot/pywikibot-scripts-stable:latest --command "pwb -family:PROJECT -lang:LANGUAGE SCRIPT_NAME arg1 -always" JOB_NAME

for example, to run the redirect.py script on Wikitech, you would use:

tools.mytool@tools-sgebastion-10:~$ toolforge jobs run --image tool-pywikibot/pywikibot-scripts-stable:latest --command "pwb -family:wikitech -lang:en redirect double -always" fix-double-redirects

You can use the --schedule option to run a job on a timer, for example every day:

tools.mytool@tools-sgebastion-10:~$ toolforge jobs run --image tool-pywikibot/pywikibot-scripts-stable:latest --command "pwb -family:PROJECT -lang:LANGUAGE SCRIPT_NAME arg1 -always" --schedule "@daily" JOB_NAME

See also

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