`page` — MediaWiki Pages#

Interface of various types of MediaWiki pages.

Imports in pywikibot module

The following classes and function are inported in pywikibot module and can also be used as pywikibot members:

pywikibot.Category
pywikibot.Claim
pywikibot.FilePage
pywikibot.ItemPage
pywikibot.LexemeForm
pywikibot.LexemePage
pywikibot.LexemeSense
pywikibot.Link
pywikibot.Page
pywikibot.PropertyPage
pywikibot.SiteLink
pywikibot.User
pywikibot.html2unicode()

class page.BaseLink(title, namespace=None, site=None)[source]#

Bases: ComparableMixin

A MediaWiki link (local or interwiki).

Has the following attributes:

title: The title of the page linked to (str); does not include namespace or section

namespace: The Namespace object of the page linked to

site: The Site object for the wiki linked to

Parameters:

title (str) – the title of the page linked to (str); does not include namespace or section
namespace (int, pywikibot.Namespace or str) – the namespace of the page linked to. Can be provided as either an int, a Namespace instance or a str, defaults to the MAIN namespace.
site (pywikibot.Site or str) – the Site object for the wiki linked to. Can be provided as either a Site instance or a db key, defaults to pywikibot.Site().

astext(onsite=None)[source]#

Return a text representation of the link.

Parameters:: onsite – if specified, present as a (possibly interwiki) link from the given site; otherwise, present as an internal link on the site.
Return type:: str

canonical_title()[source]#

Return full page title, including localized namespace.

Return type:: str

classmethod fromPage(page)[source]#

Create a BaseLink to a Page.

Parameters:: page (pywikibot.page.Page) – target pywikibot.page.Page
Return type:: pywikibot.page.BaseLink

lookup_namespace()[source]#

Look up the namespace given the provided namespace id or name.

Return type:: pywikibot.Namespace

property namespace#

Return the namespace of the link.

Return type:: pywikibot.Namespace

ns_title(onsite=None)[source]#

Return full page title, including namespace.

Parameters:: onsite – site object if specified, present title using onsite local namespace, otherwise use self canonical namespace.
Raises:: pywikibot.exceptions.InvalidTitleError – no corresponding namespace is found in onsite

property site#

Return the site of the link.

Return type:: pywikibot.Site

class page.BasePage(source, title='', ns=0)[source]#

Bases: ComparableMixin

BasePage: Base object for a MediaWiki page.

This object only implements internally methods that do not require reading from or writing to the wiki. All other methods are delegated to the Site object.

Will be subclassed by pywikibot.Page and pywikibot.page.WikibasePage.

Instantiate a Page object.

Three calling formats are supported:

If the first argument is a Page, create a copy of that object. This can be used to convert an existing Page into a subclass object, such as Category or FilePage. (If the title is also given as the second argument, creates a copy with that title; this is used when pages are moved.)

If the first argument is a Site, create a Page on that Site using the second argument as the title (may include a section), and the third as the namespace number. The namespace number is mandatory, even if the title includes the namespace prefix. This is the preferred syntax when using an already-normalized title obtained from api.php or a database dump. WARNING: may produce invalid objects if page title isn’t in normal form!

If the first argument is a BaseLink, create a Page from that link. This is the preferred syntax when using a title scraped from wikitext, URLs, or another non-normalized source.

Parameters:

source (pywikibot.page.BaseLink (or subclass), pywikibot.page.Page (or subclass), or pywikibot.page.Site) – the source of the page
title (str) – normalized title of the page; required if source is a Site, ignored otherwise
ns (int) – namespace number; required if source is a Site, ignored otherwise

applicable_protections()[source]#

Return the protection types allowed for that page.

Example:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:test')
>>> page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Main Page')
>>> sorted(page.applicable_protections())
['edit', 'move']

See also

protect()
protection()

Return type:: set[str]

autoFormat()[source]#

Return date.getAutoFormat dictName and value, if any.

Value can be a year, date, etc., and dictName is ‘YearBC’, ‘Year_December’, or another dictionary name. Please note that two entries may have exactly the same autoFormat, but be in two different namespaces, as some sites have categories with the same names. Regular titles return (None, None).

backlinks(follow_redirects=True, filter_redirects=None, namespaces=None, total=None, content=False)[source]#

Return an iterator for pages that link to this page.

Parameters:

follow_redirects (bool) – if True, also iterate pages that link to a redirect pointing to the page.
filter_redirects (bool | None) – if True, only iterate redirects; if False, omit redirects; if None, do not filter
namespaces – only iterate pages in these namespaces
total (int | None) – iterate no more than this number of pages in total
content (bool) – if True, retrieve the content of the current version of each referring page (default False)

Return type:

Iterable[Page]

botMayEdit()[source]#

Determine whether the active bot is allowed to edit the page.

This will be True if the page doesn’t contain {{bots}} or {{nobots}} or any other template from edit_restricted_templates list in x_family.py file, or it contains them and the active bot is allowed to edit this page. (This method is only useful on those sites that recognize the bot-exclusion protocol; on other sites, it will always return True.)

The framework enforces this restriction by default. It is possible to override this by setting ignore_bot_templates=True in user cnfig file (user-config.py), or using page.put(force=True).

Return type:: bool

categories(with_sort_key=False, total=None, content=False)[source]#

Iterate categories that the article is in.

Changed in version 2.0: with_sort_key parameter is not supported and a NotImplementedError is raised if set.

Changed in version 9.6: with_sort_key parameter is supported.

See also

Site.pagecategories()

Note

This method also yields categories which are transcluded.

Parameters:

with_sort_key (bool) – if True, include the sort key in each Category.
total (int | None) – iterate no more than this number of pages in total
content (bool) – if True, retrieve the content of the current version of each category description page (default False)

Returns:

a generator that yields Category objects.

Return type:

Iterable[Page]

change_category(old_cat, new_cat, summary=None, sort_key=None, in_place=True, include=None, show_diff=False)[source]#

Remove page from oldCat and add it to newCat.

Added in version 7.0: The show_diff parameter

Parameters:

old_cat (pywikibot.page.Category) – category to be removed
new_cat (pywikibot.page.Category or None) – category to be added, if any
summary (str | None) – string to use as an edit summary
sort_key – sortKey to use for the added category. Unused if newCat is None, or if inPlace=True If sortKey=True, the sortKey used for oldCat will be used.
in_place (bool) – if True, change categories in place rather than rearranging them.
include (list[str] | None) – list of tags not to be disabled by default in relevant textlib functions, where CategoryLinks can be searched.
show_diff (bool) – show changes between oldtext and newtext (default: False)

Returns:

True if page was saved changed, otherwise False.

Return type:

bool

clear_cache()[source]#

Clear the cached attributes of the page.

Return type:: None

property content_model#

Return the content model for this page.

If it cannot be reliably determined via the API, None is returned.

contributors(total=None, starttime=None, endtime=None)[source]#

Compile contributors of this page with edit counts.

Parameters:

total (int | None) – iterate no more than this number of revisions in total
starttime – retrieve revisions starting at this Timestamp
endtime – retrieve revisions ending at this Timestamp

Returns:

number of edits for each username

Return type:

collections.Counter

coordinates(primary_only=False)[source]#

Return a list of Coordinate objects for points on the page.

Uses the MediaWiki extension GeoData.

Parameters:: primary_only (bool) – Only return the coordinate indicated to be primary
Returns:: A list of Coordinate objects or a single Coordinate if primary_only is True
Return type:: list of Coordinate or Coordinate or None

create_short_link(permalink=False, with_protocol=True)[source]#

Return a shortened link that points to that page.

If shared_urlshortner_wiki is defined in family config, it’ll use that site to create the link instead of the current wiki.

Parameters:

permalink (bool) – If true, the link will point to the actual revision of the page.
with_protocol (bool) – If true, and if it’s not already included, the link will have http(s) protocol prepended. On Wikimedia wikis the protocol is already present.

Returns:

The reduced link.

Raises:

APIError – urlshortener-ratelimit exceeded

Return type:

str

data_item()[source]#

Convenience function to get the Wikibase item of a page.

Return type:: ItemPage

property data_repository#: Return the Site object for the data repository.

defaultsort(force=False)[source]#

Extract value of the {{DEFAULTSORT:}} magic word from the page.

Parameters:: force (bool) – force updating from the live site
Return type:: str | None

delete(reason=None, prompt=True, mark=False, automatic_quit=False, *, deletetalk=False)[source]#

Delete the page from the wiki. Requires administrator status.

Changed in version 7.1: keyword only parameter deletetalk was added.

Parameters:

reason (str | None) – The edit summary for the deletion, or rationale for deletion if requesting. If None, ask for it.
deletetalk (bool) – Also delete the talk page, if it exists.
prompt (bool) – If true, prompt user for confirmation before deleting.
mark (bool) – If true, and user does not have sysop rights, place a speedy-deletion request on the page instead. If false, non-sysops will be asked before marking pages for deletion.
automatic_quit (bool) – show also the quit option, when asking for confirmation.

Returns:

the function returns an integer, with values as follows: value meaning 0 no action was done 1 page was deleted -1 page was marked for deletion

Return type:

int

property depth: int#

Return the depth/subpage level of the page.

Check if the namespace allows subpages. Not allowed subpages means depth is always 0.

editTime()[source]#

Return timestamp of last revision to page.

Deprecated since version 8.0: Use latest_revision.timestamp instead.

Return type:: Timestamp

embeddedin(filter_redirects=None, namespaces=None, total=None, content=False)[source]#

Return an iterator for pages that embed this page as a template.

Parameters:

filter_redirects (bool | None) – if True, only iterate redirects; if False, omit redirects; if None, do not filter
namespaces – only iterate pages in these namespaces
total (int | None) – iterate no more than this number of pages in total
content (bool) – if True, retrieve the content of the current version of each embedding page (default False)

Return type:

Iterable[Page]

exists()[source]#

Return True if page exists on the wiki, even if it’s a redirect.

If the title includes a section, return False if this section isn’t found.

Return type:: bool

expand_text(force=False, includecomments=False)[source]#

Return the page text with all templates and parser words expanded.

Parameters:

force (bool) – force updating from the live site
includecomments (bool) – Also strip comments if includecomments parameter is not True.

Return type:

str

extlinks(total=None)[source]#

Iterate all external URLs (not interwiki links) from this page.

Parameters:: total (int | None) – iterate no more than this number of pages in total
Returns:: a generator that yields str objects containing URLs.
Return type:: Iterable[str]

extract(variant='plain', *, lines=None, chars=None, sentences=None, intro=True)[source]#

Retrieve an extract of this page.

Added in version 7.1.

Parameters:

variant (str) – The variant of extract, either ‘plain’ for plain text, ‘html’ for limited HTML (both excludes templates and any text formatting) or ‘wiki’ for bare wikitext which also includes any templates for example.
lines (int | None) – if not None, wrap the extract into lines with width of 79 chars and return a string with that given number of lines.
chars (int | None) – How many characters to return. Actual text returned might be slightly longer.
sentences (int | None) – How many sentences to return
intro (bool) – Return only content before the first section

Raises:

NoPageError – given page does not exist
NotImplementedError – “wiki” variant does not support sentences parameter.
ValueError – variant parameter must be “plain”, “html” or “wiki”

Return type:

str

See also

APISite.extract().

full_url()[source]#: Return the full URL.

get(force=False, get_redirect=False)[source]#

Return the wiki-text of the page.

This will retrieve the page from the server if it has not been retrieved yet, or if force is True. Exceptions should be caught by the calling code.

Example:

>>> import pywikibot
>>> site = pywikibot.Site('mediawiki')
>>> page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Pywikibot')
>>> page.get(get_redirect=True)
'#REDIRECT[[Manual:Pywikibot]]'
>>> page.get()
Traceback (most recent call last):
 ...
pywikibot.exceptions.IsRedirectPageError: ... is a redirect page.

Changed in version 9.2: exceptions.SectionError is raised if the section() does not exists

See also

text property

Parameters:

force (bool) – reload all page attributes, including errors.
get_redirect (bool) – return the redirect text, do not follow the redirect, do not raise an exception.

Raises:

NoPageError – The page does not exist.
IsRedirectPageError – The page is a redirect.
SectionError – The section does not exist on a page with a # link.

Return type:

str

getCategoryRedirectTarget()[source]#

If this is a category redirect, return the target category title.

Return type:: Category

getDeletedRevision(timestamp, content=False, **kwargs)[source]#

Return a particular deleted revision by timestamp.

Gives a dictionary with revid, parentid, user, timestamp, and comment as keys like this:

{'revid': 658621, 'parentid': 0, 'user': 'Pywikibot-test',
'timestamp': '2025-05-24T11:01:25Z',
'comment': 'Pywikibot unit test'}

If content is True, a slots key is added which holds additional information of the content like:

'slots': {
    'main': {
        'contentmodel': 'wikitext',
        'contentformat': 'text/x-wiki',
        '*': 'Pywikibot deletion test.'
     }
}

Caution

If timestamp is not found, an empty list is given.

See also

APISite.deletedrevs()

Parameters:

timestamp – Timestamp of the deleted revision
content (bool) – If True, give also the content of the deleted revision.

Returns:

a dictionary information about the deleted revision. If timestamp is not found, an empty list is given.

Return type:

dict[str, Any] | list[NoReturn]

getOldVersion(oldid, force=False)[source]#

Return text of an old revision of this page.

Changed in version 10.0: The unused parameter get_redirect was removed.

See also

get_revision()

Parameters:

oldid – The revid of the revision desired.
force (bool)

Return type:

str

getRedirectTarget(*, ignore_section=True)[source]#

Return a Page object for the target this Page redirects to.

Added in version 9.3: ignore_section parameter

See also

Parameters:

ignore_section (bool) – do not include section to the target even the link has one

Raises:

CircularRedirectError – page is a circular redirect
InterwikiRedirectPageError – the redirect target is on another site
IsNotRedirectPageError – page is not a redirect
RuntimeError – no redirects found
SectionError – the section is not found on target page and ignore_section is not set

Return type:

Page

getReferences(follow_redirects=True, with_template_inclusion=True, only_template_inclusion=False, filter_redirects=False, namespaces=None, total=None, content=False)[source]#

Return an iterator all pages that refer to or embed the page.

If you need a full list of referring pages, use pages = list(s.getReferences())

Parameters:

follow_redirects (bool) – if True, also iterate pages that link to a redirect pointing to the page.
with_template_inclusion (bool) – if True, also iterate pages where self is used as a template.
only_template_inclusion (bool) – if True, only iterate pages where self is used as a template.
filter_redirects (bool) – if True, only iterate redirects to self.
namespaces – only iterate pages in these namespaces
total (int | None) – iterate no more than this number of pages in total
content (bool) – if True, retrieve the content of the current version of each referring page (default False)

Return type:

Iterable[Page]

getVersionHistoryTable(reverse=False, total=None)[source]#

Return the version history as a wiki table.

Parameters:

reverse (bool)
total (int | None)

get_parsed_page(force=False)[source]#

Retrieve parsed text (via action=parse) and cache it.

Changed in version 7.1: force parameter was added; _get_parsed_page becomes a public method

Parameters:: force (bool) – force updating from the live site
Return type:: str

See also

APISite.get_parsed_page()

get_revision(oldid, *, force=False, content=False)[source]#

Return an old revision of this page.

Added in version 9.6.

See also

getOldVersion()

Parameters:

oldid (int) – The revid of the revision desired.
content (bool) – if True, retrieve the content of the revision (default False)
force (bool)

Return type:

Revision

has_content()[source]#

Page has been loaded.

Not existing pages are considered loaded.

Added in version 7.6.

Return type:: bool

has_deleted_revisions()[source]#

Return True if the page has deleted revisions.

Added in version 4.2.

Return type:: bool

has_permission(action='edit')[source]#

Determine whether the page can be modified.

Return True if the bot has the permission of needed restriction level for the given action type:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site('test')
>>> page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Main Page')
>>> page.has_permission()
False
>>> page.has_permission('move')
False
>>> page.has_permission('invalid')
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: APISite.page_can_be_edited(): Invalid value "invalid" ...

See also

APISite.page_can_be_edited()

Parameters:: action (str) – a valid restriction type like ‘edit’, ‘move’; default is edit.
Raises:: ValueError – invalid action parameter
Return type:: bool

property image_repository#: Return the Site object for the image repository.

imagelinks(total=None, content=False)[source]#

Iterate FilePage objects for images displayed on this Page.

Parameters:

total (int | None) – iterate no more than this number of pages in total
content (bool) – if True, retrieve the content of the current version of each image description page (default False)

Returns:

a generator that yields FilePage objects.

Return type:

Iterable[FilePage]

interwiki(expand=True)[source]#

Yield interwiki links in the page text, excluding language links.

Parameters:: expand (bool) – if True (default), include interwiki links found in templates transcluded onto this page; if False, only iterate interwiki links found in this page’s own wikitext
Returns:: a generator that yields Link objects
Return type:: Generator[Link, None, None]

isAutoTitle()[source]#: Return True if title of this Page is in the autoFormat dict.

isCategoryRedirect()[source]#

Return True if this is a category redirect page, False otherwise.

Return type:: bool

isDisambig()[source]#

Return True if this is a disambiguation page, False otherwise.

By default, it uses the Disambiguator extension’s result. The identification relies on the presence of the __DISAMBIG__ magic word which may also be transcluded.

If the Disambiguator extension isn’t activated for the given site, the identification relies on the presence of specific templates. First load a list of template names from the Family file via BaseSite.disambig(); if the value in the Family file not found, look for the list on [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]]. If this page does not exist, take the MediaWiki message. ‘Template:Disambig’ is always assumed to be default, and will be appended regardless of its existence.

Return type:: bool

isIpEdit()[source]#

Return True if last editor was unregistered.

Deprecated since version 9.3: Use latest_revision.anon instead.

Return type:: bool

isRedirectPage()[source]#: Return True if this is a redirect, False if not or not existing.

isStaticRedirect(force=False)[source]#

Determine whether the page is a static redirect.

A static redirect must be a valid redirect, and contain the magic word __STATICREDIRECT__.

Changed in version 7.0: __STATICREDIRECT__ can be transcluded

Parameters:: force (bool) – Bypass local caching
Return type:: bool

isTalkPage()[source]#: Return True if this page is in any talk namespace.

is_categorypage()[source]#: Return True if the page is a Category, False otherwise.

is_filepage()[source]#: Return True if this is a file description page, False otherwise.

is_flow_page()[source]#

Whether a page is a Flow page.

Attention

Structured Discussion/Flow support was deprecated in 9.4 and removed in Pywikibot 10. This method is kept to detect unsupported content.

Return type:: bool

iterlanglinks(total=None, include_obsolete=False)[source]#

Iterate all inter-language links on this page.

Parameters:

total (int | None) – iterate no more than this number of pages in total
include_obsolete (bool) – if true, yield even Link object whose site is obsolete

Returns:

a generator that yields Link objects.

Return type:

Iterable[Link]

itertemplates(total=None, *, content=False, namespaces=None)[source]#

Iterate Page objects for templates used on this Page.

This method yield pages embedded as templates even they are not in the TEMPLATE: namespace. The retrieved pages are not cached but they can be yielded from the cache of a previous templates() call.

Added in version 2.0.

Changed in version 9.2: namespaces parameter was added; all parameters except total must be given as keyword arguments.

See also

Parameters:

total (int | None) – iterate no more than this number of pages in total
content (bool) – if True, retrieve the content of the current version of each template (default False)
namespaces (int | str | Namespace | Iterable[int | str | Namespace] | None) – Only iterate pages in these namespaces

Return type:

Iterable[Page]

langlinks(include_obsolete=False)[source]#

Return a list of all inter-language Links on this page.

Parameters:: include_obsolete (bool) – if true, return even Link objects whose site is obsolete
Returns:: list of Link objects.
Return type:: list[Link]

lastNonBotUser()[source]#

Return name or IP address of last human/non-bot user to edit page.

Determine the most recent human editor out of the last revisions. If it was not able to retrieve a human user, returns None.

If the edit was done by a bot which is no longer flagged as ‘bot’, i.e. which is not returned by Site.botusers(), it will be returned as a non-bot edit.

Return type:: str | None

property latest_revision: Revision#

Return the current revision for this page.

Example:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site()
>>> page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Main Page')
... # get the latest timestamp of that page
>>> edit_time = page.latest_revision.timestamp
>>> type(edit_time)
<class 'pywikibot.time.Timestamp'>

See also

oldest_revision

property latest_revision_id#: Return the current revision id for this page.

linkedPages(**kwargs)[source]#

Iterate Pages that this Page links to.

Only returns pages from “normal” internal links. Embedded templates are omitted but links within them are returned. All interwiki and external links are omitted.

For the parameters refer APISite.pagelinks

Added in version 7.0: the follow_redirects keyword argument.

Removed in version 10.0: the positional arguments.

See also

Keyword Arguments:

namespaces – Only iterate pages in these namespaces (default: all)
follow_redirects (bool) – if True, yields the target of any redirects, rather than the redirect page
total (int) – iterate no more than this number of pages in total
content (bool) – if True, load the current content of each page

Return type:

Generator[BasePage, None, None]

loadDeletedRevisions(total=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Retrieve deleted revisions for this Page.

Stores all revisions’ timestamps, dates, editors and comments in self._deletedRevs attribute.

Returns:: iterator of timestamps (which can be used to retrieve revisions later on).
Return type:: generator
Parameters:: total (int | None)

markDeletedRevision(timestamp, undelete=True)[source]#

Mark the revision identified by timestamp for undeletion.

See also

undelete()
loadDeletedRevisions()

Parameters:: undelete (bool) – if False, mark the revision to remain deleted.
Return type:: None

merge_history(dest, timestamp=None, reason=None)[source]#

Merge revisions from this page into another page.

See also

APISite.merge_history() for details.

Parameters:

dest (BasePage) – Destination page to which revisions will be merged
timestamp (Timestamp | None) – Revisions from this page dating up to this timestamp will be merged into the destination page (if not given or False, all revisions will be merged)
reason (str | None) – Optional reason for the history merge

Return type:

None

move(newtitle, reason=None, movetalk=True, noredirect=False, movesubpages=True)[source]#

Move this page to a new title.

Changed in version 7.2: The movesubpages parameter was added

Parameters:

newtitle (str) – The new page title.
reason (str | None) – The edit summary for the move.
movetalk (bool) – If true, move this page’s talk page (if it exists)
noredirect (bool) – if move succeeds, delete the old page (usually requires sysop privileges, depending on wiki settings)
movesubpages (bool) – Rename subpages, if applicable.

Return type:

Page

moved_target()[source]#

Return a Page object for the target this Page was moved to.

If this page was not moved, it will raise a NoMoveTargetError. This method also works if the source was already deleted.

See also

getRedirectTarget()

Raises:: NoMoveTargetError – page was not moved
Return type:: Page

namespace()[source]#

Return the namespace of the page.

Returns:: namespace of the page
Return type:: Namespace

property oldest_revision: Revision#

Return the first revision of this page.

Example:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site()
>>> page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Main Page')
... # get the creation timestamp of that page
>>> creation_time = page.oldest_revision.timestamp
>>> type(creation_time)
<class 'pywikibot.time.Timestamp'>

See also

latest_revision

page_image()[source]#

Return the most appropriate image on the page.

Uses the MediaWiki extension PageImages.

Returns:: A FilePage object
Return type:: pywikibot.page.FilePage

property pageid: int#

Return pageid of the page.

Returns:: pageid or 0 if page does not exist

permalink(oldid=None, percent_encoded=True, with_protocol=False)[source]#

Return the permalink URL of an old revision of this page.

Parameters:

oldid – The revid of the revision desired.
percent_encoded (bool) – if false, the link will be provided without title uncoded.
with_protocol (bool) – if true, http or https prefixes will be included before the double slash.

Return type:

str

preloadText()[source]#

The text returned by EditFormPreloadText.

See API module “info”.

Application: on Wikisource wikis, text can be preloaded even if a page does not exist, if an Index page is present.

Return type:: str

properties(force=False)[source]#

Return the properties of the page.

Parameters:: force (bool) – force updating from the live site
Return type:: dict

protect(reason=None, protections=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Protect or unprotect a wiki page. Requires protect right.

Valid protection levels are '' (equivalent to None), 'autoconfirmed', 'sysop' and 'all'. 'all' means everyone is allowed, i.e. that protection type will be unprotected.

In order to unprotect a type of permission, the protection level shall be either set to 'all' or '' or skipped in the protections dictionary.

Expiry of protections can be set via kwargs, see Site.protect() for details. By default there is no expiry for the protection types.

See also

Site.protect()
applicable_protections()

Parameters:

protections (dict[str, str | None] | None) –
A dict mapping type of protection to protection level of that type. Allowed protection types for a page can be retrieved by applicable_protections(). Defaults to protections is None, which means unprotect all protection types.

Example: {'move': 'sysop', 'edit': 'autoconfirmed'}
reason (str | None) – Reason for the action, default is None and will set an empty string.

Return type:

None

protection()[source]#

Return a dictionary reflecting page protections.

Example:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:test')
>>> page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Main Page')
>>> page.protection()
{'edit': ('sysop', 'infinity'), 'move': ('sysop', 'infinity')}

See also

Return type:: dict[str, tuple[str, str]]

purge(**kwargs)[source]#

Purge the server’s cache for this page.

Keyword Arguments:

redirects – Automatically resolve redirects.
converttitles – Convert titles to other variants if necessary. Only works if the wiki’s content language supports variant conversion.
forcelinkupdate – Update the links tables.
forcerecursivelinkupdate – Update the links table, and update the links tables for any page that uses this page as a template.

Return type:

bool

put(newtext, summary=None, watch=None, minor=True, bot=True, force=False, asynchronous=False, callback=None, show_diff=False, botflag='[deprecated name of bot]', **kwargs)[source]#

Save the page with the contents of the first argument as the text.

This method is maintained primarily for backwards-compatibility. For new code, using save() is preferred; also ee that method docs for all parameters not listed here.

Added in version 7.0: The show_diff parameter

Changed in version 9.3: botflag parameter was renamed to bot.

Changed in version 9.4: edits cannot be marked as bot edits if the bot account has no bot right. Therefore a None argument for bot parameter was dropped.

See also

save()

Parameters:

newtext (str) – The complete text of the revised page.
show_diff (bool) – show changes between oldtext and newtext (default: False)
summary (str | None)
watch (str | None)
minor (bool)
bot (bool)
force (bool)
asynchronous (bool)

redirects(*, filter_fragments=None, namespaces=None, total=None, content=False)[source]#

Return an iterable of redirects to this page.

Parameters:

filter_fragments (bool | None) – If True, only return redirects with fragments. If False, only return redirects without fragments. If None, return both (no filtering).
namespaces (int | str | Namespace | Iterable[int | str | Namespace] | None) – only return redirects from these namespaces
total (int | None) – maximum number of redirects to retrieve in total
content (bool) – load the current content of each redirect

Return type:

Iterable[Page]

Added in version 7.0.

revision_count(contributors=None)[source]#

Determine number of edits from contributors.

Parameters:: contributors (iterable of str or User, a single pywikibot.User, a str or None) – contributor usernames
Returns:: number of edits for all provided usernames
Return type:: int

revisions(reverse=False, total=None, content=False, starttime=None, endtime=None)[source]#

Generator which loads the version history as Revision instances.

Parameters:

reverse (bool)
total (int | None)
content (bool)

save(summary=None, watch=None, minor=True, bot=True, force=False, asynchronous=False, callback=None, apply_cosmetic_changes=None, quiet=False, botflag='[deprecated name of bot]', **kwargs)[source]#

Save the current contents of page’s text to the wiki.

Changed in version 7.0: boolean watch parameter is deprecated

Changed in version 9.3: botflag parameter was renamed to bot.

Changed in version 9.4: edits cannot be marked as bot edits if the bot account has no bot right. Therefore a None argument for bot parameter was dropped.

Changed in version 10.0: boolean watch parameter is desupported

Hint

Setting up OAuth or BotPassword login, you have to grant High-volume (bot) access to get bot right even if the account is member of the bots group granted by bureaucrats. Otherwise edits cannot be marked with both flag and bot argument will be ignored.

See also

APISite.editpage

Parameters:

summary (str | None) – The edit summary for the modification (optional, but most wikis strongly encourage its use)
watch (str | None) –
Specify how the watchlist is affected by this edit, set to one of watch, unwatch, preferences, nochange:
- watch — add the page to the watchlist
- unwatch — remove the page from the watchlist
- preferences — use the preference settings (Default)
- nochange — don’t change the watchlist
If None (default), follow bot account’s default settings
minor (bool) – if True, mark this edit as minor
bot (bool) – if True, mark this edit as made by a bot if user has bot right (default), if False do not mark it as bot edit.
force (bool) – if True, ignore botMayEdit() setting
asynchronous (bool) – if True, launch a separate thread to save asynchronously
callback – a callable object that will be called after the page put operation. This object must take two arguments: (1) a Page object, and (2) an exception instance, which will be None if the page was saved successfully. The callback is intended for use by bots that need to keep track of which saves were successful.
apply_cosmetic_changes (bool | None) – Overwrites the cosmetic_changes configuration value to this value unless it’s None.
quiet (bool) – enable/disable successful save operation message; defaults to False. In asynchronous mode, if True, it is up to the calling bot to manage the output e.g. via callback.

Raises:

TypeError – watch parameter must be a string literal or None
OtherPageSaveError – Editing restricted by a template.

section()[source]#

Return the name of the section this Page refers to.

The section is the part of the title following a # character, if any. If no section is present, return None.

Return type:: str | None

property site#

Return the Site object for the wiki on which this Page resides.

Return type:: pywikibot.Site

templates(*, content=False, namespaces=None)[source]#

Return a list of Page objects for templates used on this Page.

This method returns a list of pages which are embedded as templates even they are not in the TEMPLATE: namespace. This method caches the result. If namespaces is used, all pages are retrieved and cached but the result is filtered.

Changed in version 2.0: a list of pywikibot.Page is returned instead of a list of template titles. The given pages may have namespaces different from TEMPLATE namespace. get_redirect parameter was removed.

Changed in version 9.2: namespaces parameter was added; all parameters must be given as keyword arguments.

See also

itertemplates()

Parameters:

content (bool) – if True, retrieve the content of the current version of each template (default False)
namespaces (int | str | Namespace | Iterable[int | str | Namespace] | None) – Only iterate pages in these namespaces

Return type:

list[Page]

property text: str#

Return the current (edited) wikitext, loading it if necessary.

This property should be preferred over get(). If the page does not exist, an empty string will be returned. For a redirect it returns the redirect page content and does not raise an exceptions.IsRedirectPageError exception.

Example:

>>> import pywikibot
>>> site = pywikibot.Site('mediawiki')
>>> page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Pywikibot')
>>> page.text
'#REDIRECT[[Manual:Pywikibot]]'
>>> page.text = 'PWB Framework'
>>> page.text
'PWB Framework'
>>> page.text = None  # reload from wiki
>>> page.text
'#REDIRECT[[Manual:Pywikibot]]'
>>> del page.text  # other way to reload from wiki

To save the modified text save() is one possible method.

Returns:: text of the page

title(*, underscore=False, with_ns=True, with_section=True, as_url=False, as_link=False, allow_interwiki=True, force_interwiki=False, textlink=False, as_filename=False, insite=None, without_brackets=False)[source]#

Return the title of this Page, as a string.

Parameters:

underscore (bool) – (not used with as_link) if true, replace all ‘ ‘ characters with ‘_’
with_ns (bool) – if false, omit the namespace prefix. If this option is false and used together with as_link return a labeled link like [[link|label]]
with_section (bool) – if false, omit the section
as_url (bool) – (not used with as_link) if true, quote title as if in an URL
as_link (bool) – if true, return the title in the form of a wikilink
allow_interwiki (bool) – (only used if as_link is true) if true, format the link as an interwiki link if necessary
force_interwiki (bool) – (only used if as_link is true) if true, always format the link as an interwiki link
textlink (bool) – (only used if as_link is true) if true, place a ‘:’ before Category: and Image: links
as_filename (bool) – (not used with as_link) if true, replace any characters that are unsafe in filenames
insite – (only used if as_link is true) a site object where the title is to be shown. Default is the current family/lang given by -family and -lang or -site option i.e. config.family and config.mylang
without_brackets (bool) – (cannot be used with as_link) if true, remove the last pair of brackets(usually removes disambiguation brackets).

Return type:

str

toggleTalkPage()[source]#

Return other member of the article-talk page pair for this Page.

If self is a talk page, returns the associated content page; otherwise, returns the associated talk page. The returned page need not actually exist on the wiki.

Returns:: Page or None if self is a special page.
Return type:: Page | None

touch(callback=None, bot=False, botflag='[deprecated name of bot]', **kwargs)[source]#

Make a touch edit for this page.

See Meth:save method docs for all parameters. The following parameters will be overridden by this method: summary, watch, minor, force, asynchronous

Parameter bot is False by default.

minor and bot parameters are set to False which prevents hiding the edit when it becomes a real edit due to a bug.

Note

This discards content saved to self.text.

Changed in version 9.2: botflag parameter was renamed to bot.

Parameters:: bot (bool)

undelete(reason=None)[source]#

Undelete revisions based on the markers set by previous calls.

If no calls have been made since loadDeletedRevisions(), everything will be restored.

Simplest case:

Page(...).undelete('This will restore all revisions')

More complex:

page = Page(...)
revs = page.loadDeletedRevisions()
for rev in revs:
    if ...  # decide whether to undelete a revision
        page.markDeletedRevision(rev)  # mark for undeletion
page.undelete('This will restore only selected revisions.')

See also

loadDeletedRevisions()
markDeletedRevision()
site.APISite.undelete

Parameters:: reason (str | None) – Reason for the action.
Return type:: None

userName()[source]#

Return name or IP address of last user to edit page.

Deprecated since version 9.3: Use latest_revision.user instead.

Return type:: str

version()[source]#

Return MediaWiki version number of the page site.

This is needed to use @need_version() decorator for methods of Page objects.

watch(unwatch=False)[source]#

Add or remove this page to/from bot account’s watchlist.

Parameters:: unwatch (bool) – True to unwatch, False (default) to watch.
Returns:: True if successful, False otherwise.
Return type:: bool

class page.Category(source, title='', sort_key=None)[source]#

Bases: Page

A page in the Category: namespace.

All parameters are the same as for Page() Initializer.

Parameters:: title (str)

articles(*, recurse=False, total=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Yield all articles in the current category.

Yields all pages in the category that are not subcategories. Duplicates are filtered. To enable duplicates use members() with member_type=['page', 'file'] instead.

Usage:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:test')
>>> cat = pywikibot.Category(site, 'Pywikibot')
>>> list(cat.articles())
[Page('Pywikibot nobots test')]
>>> for p in cat.articles(recurse=1, namespaces=2, total=3):
...     print(p.depth)
...
2
3
4

Warning

Categories may have infinite recursions of subcategories. If recurse option is given as True or an int value and this value is less than sys.getrecursionlimit(), an RecursionError may be raised. Be careful if passing this generator to a collection in such case.

Changed in version 8.0: all parameters are keyword arguments only.

Parameters:

recurse (int | bool) – if not False or 0, also iterate articles in subcategories. If an int, limit recursion to this number of levels. (Example: recurse=1 will iterate articles in first-level subcats, but no deeper.)
total (int | None) – iterate no more than this number of pages in total (at all levels)
kwargs (Any) – Additional parameters. Refer to APISite.categorymembers() for complete list (member_type excluded).

Return type:

Generator[Page, None, None]

aslink(sort_key=None)[source]#

Return a link to place a page in this Category.

Warning

Use this only to generate a “true” category link, not for interwikis or text links to category pages.

Usage:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:test')
>>> cat = pywikibot.Category(site, 'Foo')
>>> cat.aslink()
'[[Category:Foo]]'
>>> cat = pywikibot.Category(site, 'Foo', sort_key='bar')
>>> cat.aslink()
'[[Category:Foo|bar]]'
>>> cat.aslink('baz')
'[[Category:Foo|baz]]'

Parameters:: sort_key (str | None) – The sort key for the article to be placed in this Category; if omitted, default sort key is used.
Return type:: str

property categoryinfo: dict[str, Any]#

Return a dict containing information about the category.

The dict contains values for numbers of pages, subcategories, files, and total contents.

See also

APISite.categoryinfo()

isEmptyCategory()[source]#

Return True if category has no members (including subcategories).

Return type:: bool

isHiddenCategory()[source]#

Return True if the category is hidden.

Return type:: bool

members(*, recurse=False, total=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Yield all category contents (subcats, pages, and files).

Usage:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:test')
>>> cat = pywikibot.Category(site, 'Pywikibot')
>>> list(cat.members(member_type='subcat'))
[Category('Category:Subpage testing')]
>>> list(cat.members(member_type=['page', 'file']))
[Page('Pywikibot nobots test')]

Calling this method with member_type='subcat' is equal to calling subcategories(). Calling this method with member_type=['page', 'file'] is equal to calling articles() except that the later will filter duplicates.

See also

APISite.categorymembers()

Warning

Changed in version 8.0: all parameters are keyword arguments only. Additional parameters are supported.

Parameters:

recurse (bool) – if not False or 0, also iterate articles in subcategories. If an int, limit recursion to this number of levels. (Example: recurse=1 will iterate articles in first-level subcats, but no deeper.)
total (int | None) – iterate no more than this number of pages in total (at all levels)
kwargs (Any) – Additional parameters. Refer to APISite.categorymembers() for complete list.

Return type:

Generator[Page, None, None]

newest_pages(total=None)[source]#

Return pages in a category ordered by the creation date.

If two or more pages are created at the same time, the pages are returned in the order they were added to the category. The most recently added page is returned first.

It only allows to return the pages ordered from newest to oldest, as it is impossible to determine the oldest page in a category without checking all pages. But it is possible to check the category in order with the newly added first and it yields all pages which were created after the currently checked page was added (and thus there is no page created after any of the cached but added before the currently checked).

Parameters:

total (int | None) – The total number of pages queried.

Returns:

A page generator of all pages in a category ordered by the creation date. From newest to oldest.

Note

It currently only returns Page instances and not a subclass of it if possible. This might change so don’t expect to only get Page instances.

Return type:

Generator[Page, None, None]

subcategories(*, recurse=False, **kwargs)[source]#

Yield all subcategories of the current category.

Usage:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:en')
>>> cat = pywikibot.Category(site, 'Contents')
>>> next(cat.subcategories())
Category('Category:Wikipedia administration')
>>> len(list(cat.subcategories(recurse=2, total=50)))
50

Subcategories of the same level of each subtree are yielded first before the next subcategories level are yielded. For example having this category tree:

A
+-- B
|   +-- E
|   |   +-- H
|   +-- F
|   +-- G
+-- C
|   +-- I
|   |   +-- E
|   |       +-- H
|   +-- J
|       +-- K
|       +-- L
|           +-- G
+-- D

Subcategories are yields in the following order: B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, E, H, K, L, G

See also

categoryinfo

Warning

Changed in version 8.0: all parameters are keyword arguments only. Additional parameters are supported. The order of subcategories are yielded was changed. The old order was B, E, H, F, G, C, I, E, H, J, K, L, G, D

Parameters:

recurse (int | bool) – if not False or 0, also iterate articles in subcategories. If an int, limit recursion to this number of levels. (Example: recurse=1 will iterate articles in first-level subcats, but no deeper.)
kwargs (Any) – Additional parameters. Refer to APISite.categorymembers() for complete list (member_type excluded).

Return type:

Generator[Page, None, None]

class page.Claim(site, pid, snak=None, hash=None, is_reference=False, is_qualifier=False, rank='normal', **kwargs)[source]#

Bases: Property

A Claim on a Wikibase entity.

Claims are standard claims as well as references and qualifiers.

Defined by the “snak” value, supplemented by site + pid

Parameters:

site (pywikibot.site.DataSite) – Repository where the property of the claim is defined. Note that this does not have to correspond to the repository where the claim has been stored.
pid – property id, with “P” prefix
snak – snak identifier for claim
hash – hash identifier for references
is_reference (bool) – whether specified claim is a reference
is_qualifier (bool) – whether specified claim is a qualifier
rank (str) – rank for claim

SNAK_TYPES = ('value', 'somevalue', 'novalue')#

TARGET_CONVERTER = {'commonsMedia': <function Claim.<lambda>>, 'geo-shape': <bound method WbDataPage.fromWikibase of <class 'pywikibot._wbtypes.WbGeoShape'>>, 'globe-coordinate': <bound method Coordinate.fromWikibase of <class 'pywikibot._wbtypes.Coordinate'>>, 'monolingualtext': <function Claim.<lambda>>, 'quantity': <bound method WbQuantity.fromWikibase of <class 'pywikibot._wbtypes.WbQuantity'>>, 'tabular-data': <bound method WbDataPage.fromWikibase of <class 'pywikibot._wbtypes.WbTabularData'>>, 'time': <bound method WbTime.fromWikibase of <class 'pywikibot._wbtypes.WbTime'>>, 'wikibase-form': <function Claim.<lambda>>, 'wikibase-item': <function Claim.<lambda>>, 'wikibase-lexeme': <function Claim.<lambda>>, 'wikibase-property': <function Claim.<lambda>>, 'wikibase-sense': <function Claim.<lambda>>}#

addQualifier(qualifier, **kwargs)[source]#

Add the given qualifier.

Parameters:: qualifier (pywikibot.page.Claim) – the qualifier to add
Return type:: None

addSource(claim, **kwargs)[source]#

Add the claim as a source.

Parameters:: claim (Claim) – the claim to add
Return type:: None

addSources(claims, **kwargs)[source]#

Add the claims as one source.

Parameters:: claims (list of Claim) – the claims to add
Return type:: None

changeRank(rank, **kwargs)[source]#: Change the rank of the Claim and save.

changeSnakType(value=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Save the new snak value.

TODO: Is this function really needed?

Return type:: None

changeTarget(value=None, snaktype='value', **kwargs)[source]#

Set the target value in the data repository.

Parameters:

value (object) – The new target value.
snaktype (str) – The new snak type (‘value’, ‘somevalue’, or ‘novalue’).

Return type:

None

copy()[source]#

Create an independent copy of this object.

Return type:: pywikibot.page.Claim

classmethod fromJSON(site, data)[source]#

Create a claim object from JSON returned in the API call.

Changed in version 9.4: print a warning if the Claim.type is not given and missing in the wikibase.

Parameters:: data (dict[str, Any]) – JSON containing claim data
Return type:: Claim

getRank()[source]#: Return the rank of the Claim.

getSnakType()[source]#

Return the type of snak.

Returns:: str (‘value’, ‘somevalue’ or ‘novalue’)
Return type:: str

getSources()[source]#

Return a list of sources, each being a list of Claims.

Return type:: list

getTarget()[source]#

Return the target value of this Claim.

None is returned if no target is set

Returns:: object

has_qualifier(qualifier_id, target)[source]#

Check whether Claim contains specified qualifier.

Parameters:

qualifier_id (str) – id of the qualifier
target – qualifier target to check presence of

Returns:

true if the qualifier was found, false otherwise

Return type:

bool

property on_item: WikibaseEntity | None#: Return entity this claim is attached to.

classmethod qualifierFromJSON(site, data)[source]#

Create a Claim for a qualifier from JSON.

Qualifier objects are represented a bit differently like references, but I’m not sure if this even requires it’s own function.

Return type:: pywikibot.page.Claim

classmethod referenceFromJSON(site, data)[source]#

Create a dict of claims from reference JSON fetched in the API call.

Reference objects are represented a bit differently, and require some more handling.

Return type:: dict

removeQualifier(qualifier, **kwargs)[source]#

Remove the qualifier. Call removeQualifiers().

Parameters:: qualifier (pywikibot.page.Claim) – the qualifier to remove
Return type:: None

removeQualifiers(qualifiers, **kwargs)[source]#

Remove the qualifiers.

Parameters:: qualifiers (list of Claim) – the qualifiers to remove
Return type:: None

removeSource(source, **kwargs)[source]#

Remove the source. Call removeSources().

Parameters:: source (Claim) – the source to remove
Return type:: None

removeSources(sources, **kwargs)[source]#

Remove the sources.

Parameters:: sources (list of Claim) – the sources to remove
Return type:: None

same_as(other, ignore_rank=True, ignore_quals=False, ignore_refs=True)[source]#

Check if two claims are same.

Parameters:

ignore_rank (bool)
ignore_quals (bool)
ignore_refs (bool)

Return type:

bool

setRank(rank)[source]#

Set the rank of the Claim.

Return type:: None

setSnakType(value)[source]#

Set the type of snak.

Parameters:: value (str ('value', 'somevalue', or 'novalue')) – Type of snak
Return type:: None

setTarget(value)[source]#

Set the target value in the local object.

Parameters:: value (object) – The new target value.
Raises:: ValueError – if value is not of the type required for the Claim type.
Return type:: None

target_equals(value)[source]#

Check whether the Claim’s target is equal to specified value.

The function checks for:

WikibaseEntity ID equality
WbTime year equality
Coordinate equality, regarding precision
WbMonolingualText text equality
direct equality

Parameters:: value – the value to compare with
Returns:: true if the Claim’s target is equal to the value provided, false otherwise
Return type:: bool

toJSON()[source]#

Create dict suitable for the MediaWiki API.

Return type:: dict

class page.FileInfo(file_revision, filepage)[source]#

Bases: object

A structure holding imageinfo of latest rev. of FilePage.

All keys of API imageinfo dictionary are mapped to FileInfo attributes. Attributes can be retrieved both as self[‘key’] or self.key.

Following attributes will be returned:

timestamp, user, comment, url, size, sha1, mime, metadata (lazily)
archivename (not for latest revision)

see Site.loadimageinfo() for details.

Note

timestamp will be casted to pywikibot.Timestamp().

Changed in version 7.7: raises KeyError instead of AttributeError if FileInfo is used as Mapping.

Changed in version 8.6: Metadata are loaded lazily. Added filepage parameter.

Initiate the class using the dict from APISite.loadimageinfo.

property metadata#: Return metadata.

Added in version 8.6.

update(file_revision)[source]#

Update FileInfo with new values.

Added in version 8.6.

Return type:: None

class page.FilePage(source, title='', *, ignore_extension=False)[source]#

Bases: Page

A subclass of Page representing a file description page.

Supports the same interface as Page except ns; some added methods.

Changed in version 8.4: Check for valid extensions.

Changed in version 9.3: Added the optional ignore_extension parameter.

Changed in version 9.6: Show a warning if ignore_extension was set and the extension is invalid.

See also

Site.file_extensions

Parameters:

source (pywikibot.page.BaseLink (or subclass), pywikibot.page.Page (or subclass), or pywikibot.page.Site) – the source of the page
title (str) – normalized title of the page; required if source is a Site, ignored otherwise
ignore_extension (bool) – prevent extension check

Raises:

ValueError – Either the title is not in the file namespace or does not have a valid extension and ignore_extension was not set.

data_item()[source]#

Function to get the associated Wikibase item of the file.

If WikibaseMediaInfo extension is available (e.g., on Commons), the method returns the associated mediainfo entity. Otherwise, it falls back to the behavior of BasePage.data_item().

Added in version 6.5.

Return type:: pywikibot.page.WikibaseEntity

download(filename=None, chunk_size=102400, revision=None, *, url_width=None, url_height=None, url_param=None)[source]#

Download to filename file of FilePage.

Usage examples:

Download an image:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:test')
>>> file = pywikibot.FilePage(site, 'Pywikibot MW gear icon.svg')
>>> file.download()
True

Pywikibot_MW_gear_icon.svg was downloaded.

Download a thumbnail:

>>> file.download(url_param='120px')
True

The suffix has changed and Pywikibot_MW_gear_icon.png was downloaded.

Added in version 8.2: url_width, url_height and url_param parameters.

Changed in version 8.2: filename argument may be also a path-like object or an iterable of path segments.

Note

filename suffix is adjusted if target url’s suffix is different which may be the case if a thumbnail is loaded.

Warning

If a file already exists, it will be overridden without further notes.

See also

API:Imageinfo for new parameters

Parameters:

filename (str | PathLike | Iterable[str] | None) – filename where to save file. If None, self.title(as_filename=True, with_ns=False) will be used. If an Iterable is specified the items will be used as path segments. To specify the user directory path you have to use either ~ or ~user as first path segment e.g. ~/foo or ('~', 'foo') as filename. If only the user directory specifier is given, the title is used as filename like for None. If the suffix is missing or different from url (which can happen if a url_width, url_height or url_param argument is given), the file suffix is adjusted.
chunk_size (int) – the size of each chunk to be received and written to file.
revision (FileInfo | None) – file revision to download. If None latest_file_info will be used; otherwise provided revision will be used.
url_width (int | None) – download thumbnail with given width
url_height (int | None) – download thumbnail with given height
url_param (str | None) – download thumbnail with given param

Returns:

True if download is successful, False otherwise.

Raises:

IOError – if filename cannot be written for any reason.

Return type:

bool

file_is_shared()[source]#

Check if the file is stored on any known shared repository.

Changed in version 7.0: return False if file does not exist on shared image repository instead raising NoPageError.

Return type:: bool

property file_is_used: bool#: Check whether the file is used at this site.

Added in version 7.1.

getFileVersionHistoryTable()[source]#

Return the version history in the form of a wiki table.

Return type:: str

getImagePageHtml()[source]#

Download the file page, and return the HTML, as a string.

Caches the HTML code, so that if you run this method twice on the same FilePage object, the page will only be downloaded once.

Return type:: str

get_file_history()[source]#

Return the file’s version history.

Returns:: dictionary with: key: timestamp of the entry value: instance of FileInfo()
Return type:: dict

get_file_info(ts)[source]#

Retrieve and store information of a specific Image rev. of FilePage.

This function will load also metadata. It is also used as a helper in FileInfo to load metadata lazily.

Added in version 8.6.

Parameters:: ts – timestamp of the Image rev. to retrieve
Returns:: instance of FileInfo()
Return type:: dict

get_file_url(url_width=None, url_height=None, url_param=None)[source]#

Return the url or the thumburl of the file described on this page.

Fetch the information if not available.

Once retrieved, file information will also be accessible as latest_file_info attributes, named as in API:Imageinfo. If url_width, url_height or url_param is given, additional properties thumbwidth, thumbheight, thumburl and responsiveUrls are provided.

Note

Parameters validation and error handling left to the API call.

See also

Parameters:

url_width (int | None) – get info for a thumbnail with given width
url_height (int | None) – get info for a thumbnail with given height
url_param (str | None) – get info for a thumbnail with given param

Returns:

latest file url or thumburl

Return type:

str

globalusage(total=None)[source]#

Iterate all global usage for this page.

See also

using_pages()

Parameters:: total – iterate no more than this number of pages in total
Returns:: a generator that yields Pages also on sites different from self.site.
Return type:: generator

property latest_file_info#

Retrieve and store information of latest Image rev. of FilePage.

At the same time, the whole history of Image is fetched and cached in self._file_revisions

Returns:: instance of FileInfo()

property oldest_file_info#

Retrieve and store information of oldest Image rev. of FilePage.

At the same time, the whole history of Image is fetched and cached in self._file_revisions

Returns:: instance of FileInfo()

upload(source, **kwargs)[source]#

Upload this file to the wiki.

keyword arguments are from site.upload() method.

Parameters:

source (str) – Path or URL to the file to be uploaded.

Keyword Arguments:

comment – Edit summary; if this is not provided, then filepage.text will be used. An empty summary is not permitted. This may also serve as the initial page text (see below).
text – Initial page text; if this is not set, then filepage.text will be used, or comment.
watch – If true, add filepage to the bot user’s watchlist
ignore_warnings –
It may be a static boolean, a callable returning a boolean or an iterable. The callable gets a list of UploadError instances and the iterable should contain the warning codes for which an equivalent callable would return True if all UploadError codes are in that list. If the result is False it’ll not continue uploading the file and otherwise disable any warning and reattempt to upload the file.

Note

NOTE: If report_success is True or None it’ll raise an UploadError exception if the static boolean is False.
chunk_size – The chunk size in bytesfor chunked uploading (see API:Upload#Chunked_uploading). It will only upload in chunks, if the chunk size is positive but lower than the file size.
report_success – If the upload was successful it’ll print a success message and if ignore_warnings is set to False it’ll raise an UploadError if a warning occurred. If it’s None (default) it’ll be True if ignore_warnings is a bool and False otherwise. If it’s True or None ignore_warnings must be a bool.

Returns:

It returns True if the upload was successful and False otherwise.

Return type:

bool

using_pages(**kwargs)[source]#

Yield Pages on which the file is displayed.

For parameters refer APISite.imageusage()

Usage example:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:test')
>>> file = pywikibot.FilePage(site, 'Pywikibot MW gear icon.svg')
>>> used = list(file.using_pages(total=10))
>>> len(used)
2
>>> used[0].title()
'Pywikibot'

See also

globalusage()

Changed in version 7.2: all parameters from APISite.imageusage() are available.

Changed in version 7.4: renamed from usingPages().

class page.ItemPage(site, title=None, ns=None)[source]#

Bases: WikibasePage

Wikibase entity of type ‘item’.

A Wikibase item may be defined by either a ‘Q’ id (qid), or by a site & title.

If an item is defined by site & title, once an item’s qid has been looked up, the item is then defined by the qid.

Parameters:

site (pywikibot.site.DataSite) – data repository
title (str) – identifier of item, “Q###”, -1 or None for an empty item.

DATA_ATTRIBUTES: dict[str, Any] = {'aliases': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.AliasesDict'>, 'claims': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.ClaimCollection'>, 'descriptions': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.LanguageDict'>, 'labels': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.LanguageDict'>, 'sitelinks': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.SiteLinkCollection'>}#

entity_type = 'item'#

classmethod fromPage(page, lazy_load=False)[source]#

Get the ItemPage for a Page that links to it.

Parameters:

page (pywikibot.page.Page) – Page to look for corresponding data item
lazy_load (bool) – Do not raise NoPageError if either page or corresponding ItemPage does not exist.

Return type:

pywikibot.page.ItemPage

Raises:

pywikibot.exceptions.NoPageError – There is no corresponding ItemPage for the page
pywikibot.exceptions.WikiBaseError – The site of the page has no data repository.

classmethod from_entity_uri(site, uri, lazy_load=False)[source]#

Get the ItemPage from its entity uri.

Parameters:

site (pywikibot.site.DataSite) – The Wikibase site for the item.
uri (str) – Entity uri for the Wikibase item.
lazy_load (bool) – Do not raise NoPageError if ItemPage does not exist.

Return type:

pywikibot.page.ItemPage

Raises:

TypeError – Site is not a valid DataSite.
ValueError – Site does not match the base of the provided uri.
pywikibot.exceptions.NoPageError – Uri points to non- existent item.

get(force=False, get_redirect=False, *args, **kwargs)[source]#

Fetch all item data, and cache it.

Parameters:

force (bool) – override caching
get_redirect (bool) – return the item content, do not follow the redirect, do not raise an exception.

Raises:

NotImplementedError – a value in args or kwargs
IsRedirectPageError – instance is a redirect page and get_redirect is not True

Returns:

actual data which entity holds

Return type:

dict[str, Any]

Note

dicts returned by this method are references to content of this entity and their modifying may indirectly cause unwanted change to the live content

getID(numeric=False, force=False)[source]#

Get the entity identifier.

Parameters:

numeric (bool) – Strip the first letter and return an int
force (bool) – Force an update of new data

getRedirectTarget(*, ignore_section=True)[source]#

Return the redirect target for this page.

Added in version 9.3: ignore_section parameter

See also

page.BasePage.getRedirectTarget()

Parameters:

ignore_section (bool) – do not include section to the target even the link has one

Raises:

CircularRedirectError – page is a circular redirect
InterwikiRedirectPageError – the redirect target is on another site
Error – target page has wrong content model
IsNotRedirectPageError – page is not a redirect
RuntimeError – no redirects found
SectionError – the section is not found on target page and ignore_section is not set

getSitelink(site, force=False)[source]#

Return the title for the specific site.

If the item doesn’t have a link to that site, raise NoSiteLinkError.

Changed in version 8.1: raises NoSiteLinkError instead of NoPageError.

Parameters:

site (pywikibot.Site or database name) – Site to find the linked page of.
force (bool) – override caching

Raises:

IsRedirectPageError – instance is a redirect page
NoSiteLinkError – site is not in sitelinks

Return type:

str

isRedirectPage()[source]#: Return True if item is a redirect, False if not or not existing.

iterlinks(family=None)[source]#

Iterate through all the sitelinks.

Parameters:: family (str|pywikibot.family.Family) – string/Family object which represents what family of links to iterate
Returns:: iterator of pywikibot.Page objects
Return type:: iterator

mergeInto(item, **kwargs)[source]#

Merge the item into another item.

Parameters:: item (pywikibot.page.ItemPage) – The item to merge into
Return type:: None

removeSitelink(site, **kwargs)[source]#

Remove a sitelink.

A site can either be a Site object, or it can be a dbName.

Parameters:: site (LANGUAGE_IDENTIFIER)
Return type:: None

removeSitelinks(sites, **kwargs)[source]#

Remove sitelinks.

Sites should be a list, with values either being Site objects, or dbNames.

Parameters:: sites (list[LANGUAGE_IDENTIFIER])
Return type:: None

setSitelink(sitelink, **kwargs)[source]#

Set sitelinks. Calls setSitelinks().

A sitelink can be a Page object, a BaseLink object or a {'site': dbname, 'title': title} dictionary.

Refer WikibasePage.editEntity() for asynchronous and callback usage.

Parameters:: sitelink (SITELINK_TYPE)
Return type:: None

setSitelinks(sitelinks, **kwargs)[source]#

Set sitelinks.

sitelinks should be a list. Each item in the list can either be a Page object, a BaseLink object, or a dict with key for ‘site’ and a value for ‘title’.

Refer editEntity() for asynchronous and callback usage.

Parameters:: sitelinks (list[SITELINK_TYPE])
Return type:: None

set_redirect_target(target_page, create=False, force=False, keep_section=False, save=True, botflag='[deprecated name of bot]', **kwargs)[source]#

Make the item redirect to another item.

You need to define an extra argument to make this work, like save=True.

Changed in version 9.3: botflag keyword parameter was renamed to bot.

Parameters:

target_page (ItemPage | str) – target of the redirect, this argument is required.
force (bool) – if true, it sets the redirect target even the page is not redirect.
create (bool)
keep_section (bool)
save (bool)

title(**kwargs)[source]#

Return ID as title of the ItemPage.

If the ItemPage was lazy-loaded via ItemPage.fromPage, this method will fetch the Wikibase item ID for the page, potentially raising NoPageError with the page on the linked wiki if it does not exist, or does not have a corresponding Wikibase item ID.

This method also refreshes the title if the id property was set. i.e. item.id = ‘Q60’

All optional keyword parameters are passed to the superclass.

title_pattern = 'Q[1-9]\\d*'#

class page.LexemeForm(repo, id_=None)[source]#

Bases: LexemeSubEntity

Wikibase lexeme form.

DATA_ATTRIBUTES: dict[str, Any] = {'claims': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.ClaimCollection'>, 'representations': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.LanguageDict'>}#

edit_elements(data, **kwargs)[source]#

Update form elements.

Parameters:: data (dict) – Data to be saved
Return type:: None

entity_type = 'form'#

get(force=False)[source]#

Fetch all form data, and cache it.

Parameters:: force (bool) – override caching
Return type:: dict

Note

dicts returned by this method are references to content of this entity and their modifying may indirectly cause unwanted change to the live content

title_pattern = 'L[1-9]\\d*-F[1-9]\\d*'#

toJSON(diffto=None)[source]#

Create dict suitable for the MediaWiki API.

Parameters:: diffto (dict | None)
Return type:: dict

class page.LexemePage(site, title=None)[source]#

Bases: WikibasePage

Wikibase entity of type ‘lexeme’.

Basic usage sample:

>>> import pywikibot
>>> repo = pywikibot.Site('wikidata')
>>> L2 = pywikibot.LexemePage(repo, 'L2')  # create a Lexeme page
>>> list(L2.claims)  # access the claims
['P5402', 'P5831', 'P12690', 'P12448', 'P31', 'P5275', 'P12510', ...]
>>> len(L2.forms)  # access the forms
3
>>> F1 = L2.forms[0]  # access the first form
>>> list(F1.claims)  # access its claims
['P898']
>>> len(L2.senses)  # access the senses
2
>>> S1 = L2.senses[0]  # access the first sense
>>> list(S1.claims)  # and its claims
['P5137', 'P5972', 'P2888']

Parameters:

site (pywikibot.site.DataSite) – data repository
title (str or None) – identifier of lexeme, “L###”, -1 or None for an empty lexeme.

DATA_ATTRIBUTES: dict[str, Any] = {'claims': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.ClaimCollection'>, 'forms': <class 'pywikibot.page._wikibase.LexemeFormCollection'>, 'lemmas': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.LanguageDict'>, 'senses': <class 'pywikibot.page._wikibase.LexemeSenseCollection'>}#

add_form(form, **kwargs)[source]#

Add a form to the lexeme.

Parameters:

form (Form) – The form to add

Keyword Arguments:

bot – Whether to flag as bot (if possible)
asynchronous – if True, launch a separate thread to add form asynchronously
callback – a callable object that will be called after the claim has been added. It must take two arguments: (1) a LexemePage object, and (2) an exception instance, which will be None if the entity was saved successfully. This is intended for use by bots that need to keep track of which saves were successful.

Return type:

None

entity_type = 'lexeme'#

get(force=False, get_redirect=False, *args, **kwargs)[source]#

Fetch all lexeme data, and cache it.

Parameters:

force (bool) – override caching
get_redirect (bool) – return the lexeme content, do not follow the redirect, do not raise an exception.

Raises:

NotImplementedError – a value in args or kwargs

Note

dicts returned by this method are references to content of this entity and their modifying may indirectly cause unwanted change to the live content

get_data_for_new_entity()[source]#

Return data required for creation of a new lexeme.

Return type:: NoReturn

isRedirectPage()[source]#: Return True if lexeme is redirect, False if not or not existing.

mergeInto(lexeme, **kwargs)[source]#

Merge the lexeme into another lexeme.

Parameters:: lexeme (LexemePage) – The lexeme to merge into
Return type:: None

remove_form(form, **kwargs)[source]#

Remove a form from the lexeme.

Parameters:: form (LexemeForm) – The form to remove
Return type:: None

title_pattern = 'L[1-9]\\d*'#

toJSON(diffto=None)[source]#

Create JSON suitable for Wikibase API.

When diffto is provided, JSON representing differences to the provided data is created.

Parameters:: diffto (dict | None) – JSON containing entity data
Return type:: dict

class page.LexemeSense(repo, id_=None)[source]#

Bases: LexemeSubEntity

Wikibase lexeme sense.

DATA_ATTRIBUTES: dict[str, Any] = {'claims': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.ClaimCollection'>, 'glosses': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.LanguageDict'>}#

entity_type = 'sense'#

title_pattern = 'L[1-9]\\d*-S[1-9]\\d*'#

class page.Link(text, source=None, default_namespace=0)[source]#

Bases: BaseLink

A MediaWiki wikitext link (local or interwiki).

Constructs a Link object based on a wikitext link and a source site.

Extends BaseLink by the following attributes:

section: The section of the page linked to (str or None); this contains any text following a ‘#’ character in the title

anchor: The anchor text (str or None); this contains any text following a ‘|’ character inside the link

Parameters:

text (str) – the link text (everything appearing between [[ and ]] on a wiki page)
source (Site or BasePage) – the Site on which the link was found (not necessarily the site to which the link refers)
default_namespace (int) – a namespace to use if the link does not contain one (defaults to 0)

Raises:

UnicodeError – text could not be converted to unicode.

property anchor: str#: Return the anchor of the link.

astext(onsite=None)[source]#

Return a text representation of the link.

Parameters:: onsite – if specified, present as a (possibly interwiki) link from the given site; otherwise, present as an internal link on the source site.

classmethod create_separated(link, source, default_namespace=0, section=None, label=None)[source]#

Create a new instance but overwrite section or label.

The returned Link instance is already parsed.

Parameters:

link (str) – The original link text.
source (Site) – The source of the link.
default_namespace (int) – The namespace this link uses when no namespace is defined in the link text.
section (None or str) – The new section replacing the one in link. If None (default) it doesn’t replace it.
label – The new label replacing the one in link. If None (default) it doesn’t replace it.

classmethod fromPage(page, source=None)[source]#

Create a Link to a Page.

Parameters:

page (pywikibot.page.Page) – target Page
source – Link from site source
source – Site

Return type:

pywikibot.page.Link

illegal_titles_pattern = re.compile('[\\x00-\\x1f\\x23\\x3c\\x3e\\x5b\\x5d\\x7b\\x7c\\x7d\\x7f]|%[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}|&[A-Za-z0-9\x80-ÿ]+;|&#[0-9]+;|&#x[0-9A-Fa-f]+;')#

classmethod langlinkUnsafe(lang, title, source)[source]#

Create a “lang:title” Link linked from source.

Assumes that the lang & title come clean, no checks are made.

Parameters:

lang (str) – target site code (language)
title (str) – target Page
source (Site) – Link from site source

Return type:

pywikibot.page.Link

property namespace#

Return the namespace of the link.

Return type:: pywikibot.Namespace

parse()[source]#

Parse wikitext of the link.

Called internally when accessing attributes.

Return type:: None

parse_site()[source]#

Parse only enough text to determine which site the link points to.

This method does not parse anything after the first “:”; links with multiple interwiki prefixes (such as “wikt:fr:Parlais”) need to be re-parsed on the first linked wiki to get the actual site.

Returns:: The family name and site code for the linked site. If the site is not supported by the configured families it returns None instead of a str.
Return type:: tuple

property section: str#: Return the section of the link.

property site#

Return the site of the link.

Return type:: pywikibot.Site

property title: str#: Return the title of the link.

class page.MediaInfo(repo, id_=None)[source]#

Bases: WikibaseEntity

Interface for MediaInfo entities on Commons.

Added in version 6.5.

Parameters:

repo (DataSite) – Entity repository.
id (str or None, -1 and None mean non-existing) – Entity identifier.
id_ (str | None)

DATA_ATTRIBUTES: dict[str, Any] = {'labels': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.LanguageDict'>, 'statements': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.ClaimCollection'>}#

addClaim(claim, bot=True, **kwargs)[source]#

Add a claim to the MediaInfo.

Added in version 8.5.

Parameters:

claim (pywikibot.page.Claim) – The claim to add
bot (bool) – Whether to flag as bot (if possible)

Return type:

None

editLabels(labels, **kwargs)[source]#

Edit MediaInfo labels (eg. captions).

labels should be a dict, with the key as a language or a site object. The value should be the string to set it to. You can set it to '' to remove the label.

Usage:

>>> repo = pywikibot.Site('commons','commons')
>>> page = pywikibot.FilePage(repo, 'File:Sandbox-Test.svg')
>>> item = page.data_item()
>>> item.editLabels({'en': 'Test file.'})

Added in version 8.5.

Parameters:: labels (LANGUAGE_TYPE)
Return type:: None

entity_type = 'mediainfo'#

property file: FilePage#: Get the file associated with the mediainfo.

get(force=False)[source]#

Fetch all MediaInfo entity data and cache it.

Note

dicts returned by this method are references to content of this entity and their modifying may indirectly cause unwanted change to the live content

Changed in version 9.0: Added pageid, ns, title, lastrevid, modified, id values to _content attribute when it is loaded.

Parameters:: force (bool) – override caching
Raises:: NoWikibaseEntityError – if this entity doesn’t exist
Returns:: actual data which entity holds
Return type:: dict

getID(numeric=False)[source]#

Get the entity identifier.

See also

title()

Parameters:: numeric (bool) – Strip the first letter and return an int
Raises:: NoWikibaseEntityError – if this entity is associated with a non-existing file
Return type:: str | int

removeClaims(claims, **kwargs)[source]#

Remove the claims from the MediaInfo.

Added in version 8.5.

Parameters:: claims (list or Claim) – list of claims to be removed
Return type:: None

title()[source]#

Return ID as title of the MediaInfo.

Added in version 9.4.

See also

getID()

Raises:: NoWikibaseEntityError – if this entity is associated with a non-existing file
Returns:: the entity identifier
Return type:: str

title_pattern = 'M[1-9]\\d*'#

class page.Page(source, title='', ns=0)[source]#

Bases: BasePage, WikiBlameMixin

Page: A MediaWiki page.

Instantiate a Page object.

Parameters:: title (str)

get_best_claim(prop)[source]#

Return the first best Claim for this page.

Return the first ‘preferred’ ranked Claim specified by Wikibase property or the first ‘normal’ one otherwise.

Added in version 3.0.

Parameters:: prop (str) – property id, “P###”
Returns:: Claim object given by Wikibase property number for this page object.
Return type:: Claim or None
Raises:: UnknownExtensionError – site has no Wikibase extension

property raw_extracted_templates#

Extract templates and parameters.

This method is using textlib.extract_templates_and_params(). Disabled parts and whitespace are stripped, except for whitespace in anonymous positional arguments.

Return type:: list of (str, OrderedDict)

set_redirect_target(target_page, create=False, force=False, keep_section=False, save=True, botflag='[deprecated name of bot]', **kwargs)[source]#

Change the page’s text to point to the redirect page.

Changed in version 9.3: botflag keyword parameter was renamed to bot.

Parameters:

target_page (Page | str) – target of the redirect, this argument is required.
create (bool) – if true, it creates the redirect even if the page doesn’t exist.
force (bool) – if true, it set the redirect target even the page doesn’t exist or it’s not redirect.
keep_section (bool) – if the old redirect links to a section and the new one doesn’t it uses the old redirect’s section.
save (bool) – if true, it saves the page immediately.
kwargs – Arguments which are used for saving the page directly afterwards, like summary for edit summary.

templatesWithParams()[source]#

Return templates used on this Page.

The templates are extracted by raw_extracted_templates(), with positional arguments placed first in order, and each named argument appearing as ‘name=value’.

All parameter keys and values for each template are stripped of whitespace.

Returns:: a list of tuples with one tuple for each template invocation in the page, with the template Page as the first entry and a list of parameters as the second entry.
Return type:: list[tuple[Page, list[str]]]

class page.Property(site, id, datatype=None)[source]#

Bases: object

A Wikibase property.

While every Wikibase property has a Page on the data repository, this object is for when the property is used as part of another concept where the property is not _the_ Page of the property.

For example, a claim on an ItemPage has many property attributes, and so it subclasses this Property class, but a claim does not have Page like behaviour and semantics.

Parameters:

site (pywikibot.site.DataSite) – data repository
id (str) – id of the property
datatype (str | None) – datatype of the property; if not given, it will be queried via the API

exists()[source]#

Determine if the property exists in the data repository.

Added in version 9.4.

Return type:: bool

getID(numeric=False)[source]#

Get the identifier of this property.

Parameters:: numeric (bool) – Strip the first letter and return an int

property type: str#

Return the type of this property.

Changed in version 9.4: raises NoWikibaseEntityError if property does not exist.

Raises:: NoWikibaseEntityError – property does not exist

types = {'commonsMedia': <class 'pywikibot.page._filepage.FilePage'>, 'external-id': <class 'str'>, 'geo-shape': <class 'pywikibot._wbtypes.WbGeoShape'>, 'globe-coordinate': <class 'pywikibot._wbtypes.Coordinate'>, 'math': <class 'str'>, 'monolingualtext': <class 'pywikibot._wbtypes.WbMonolingualText'>, 'musical-notation': <class 'str'>, 'quantity': <class 'pywikibot._wbtypes.WbQuantity'>, 'string': <class 'str'>, 'tabular-data': <class 'pywikibot._wbtypes.WbTabularData'>, 'time': <class 'pywikibot._wbtypes.WbTime'>, 'url': <class 'str'>, 'wikibase-form': <class 'pywikibot.page._wikibase.LexemeForm'>, 'wikibase-item': <class 'pywikibot.page._wikibase.ItemPage'>, 'wikibase-lexeme': <class 'pywikibot.page._wikibase.LexemePage'>, 'wikibase-property': <class 'pywikibot.page._wikibase.PropertyPage'>, 'wikibase-sense': <class 'pywikibot.page._wikibase.LexemeSense'>}#

value_types = {'commonsMedia': 'string', 'external-id': 'string', 'geo-shape': 'string', 'globe-coordinate': 'globecoordinate', 'math': 'string', 'musical-notation': 'string', 'tabular-data': 'string', 'url': 'string', 'wikibase-form': 'wikibase-entityid', 'wikibase-item': 'wikibase-entityid', 'wikibase-lexeme': 'wikibase-entityid', 'wikibase-property': 'wikibase-entityid', 'wikibase-sense': 'wikibase-entityid'}#

class page.PropertyPage(source, title=None, datatype=None)[source]#

Bases: WikibasePage, Property

A Wikibase entity in the property namespace.

Should be created as:

PropertyPage(DataSite, 'P21')

or:

PropertyPage(DataSite, datatype='url')

Parameters:

source (pywikibot.site.DataSite) – data repository property is on
title (str) – identifier of property, like “P##”, “-1” or None for an empty property.
datatype (str) – Datatype for a new property.

DATA_ATTRIBUTES: dict[str, Any] = {'aliases': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.AliasesDict'>, 'claims': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.ClaimCollection'>, 'descriptions': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.LanguageDict'>, 'labels': <class 'pywikibot.page._collections.LanguageDict'>}#

entity_type = 'property'#

get(force=False, *args, **kwargs)[source]#

Fetch the property entity, and cache it.

Parameters:: force (bool) – override caching
Raises:: NotImplementedError – a value in args or kwargs
Returns:: actual data which entity holds
Return type:: dict

Note

dicts returned by this method are references to content of this entity and their modifying may indirectly cause unwanted change to the live content

getID(numeric=False)[source]#

Get the identifier of this property.

Parameters:: numeric (bool) – Strip the first letter and return an int

get_data_for_new_entity()[source]#: Return data required for creation of new property.

newClaim(*args, **kwargs)[source]#

Helper function to create a new claim object for this property.

Return type:: Claim

title_pattern = 'P[1-9]\\d*'#

class page.Revision(**kwargs)[source]#

Bases: Mapping

A structure holding information about a single revision of a Page.

Each data item can be accessed either by its key or as an attribute with the attribute name equal to the key e.g.:

>>> r = Revision(comment='Sample for Revision access')
>>> r.comment == r['comment']
True
>>> r.comment
'Sample for Revision access'

See also

class page.SiteLink(title, site=None, badges=None)[source]#

Bases: BaseLink

A single sitelink in a Wikibase item.

Extends BaseLink by the following attribute:

badges: Any badges associated with the sitelink

Added in version 3.0.

Parameters:

title (str) – the title of the linked page including namespace
site (pywikibot.Site or str) – the Site object for the wiki linked to. Can be provided as either a Site instance or a db key, defaults to pywikibot.Site().
badges ([ItemPage]) – list of badges

property badges#

Return a list of all badges associated with the link.

Return type:: [ItemPage]

classmethod fromJSON(data, site=None)[source]#

Create a SiteLink object from JSON returned in the API call.

Parameters:

data (dict[str, Any]) – JSON containing SiteLink data
site (pywikibot.site.DataSite) – The Wikibase site

Return type:

SiteLink

toJSON()[source]#

Convert the SiteLink to a JSON object for the Wikibase API.

Returns:: Wikibase JSON
Return type:: dict[str, str | list[str]]

class page.User(source, title='')[source]#

Bases: Page

A class that represents a Wiki user.

This class also represents the Wiki page User:<username>

Initializer for a User object.

All parameters are the same as for Page() Initializer.

Parameters:: title (str)

block(*args, **kwargs)[source]#

Block user.

Refer APISite.blockuser method for parameters.

Return type:: None

contributions(total=500, **kwargs)[source]#

Yield tuples describing this user edits.

Each tuple is composed of a pywikibot.Page object, the revision id, the edit timestamp and the comment. Pages returned are not guaranteed to be unique.

Example:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:test')
>>> user = pywikibot.User(site, 'pywikibot-test')
>>> contrib = next(user.contributions(reverse=True))
>>> len(contrib)
4
>>> contrib[0].title()
'User:John Vandenberg/appendtext test'
>>> contrib[1]
504588
>>> str(contrib[2])
'2022-03-04T17:36:02Z'
>>> contrib[3]
''

See also

Site.usercontribs()

Parameters:

total (int | None) – limit result to this number of pages

Keyword Arguments:

start – Iterate contributions starting at this Timestamp
end – Iterate contributions ending at this Timestamp
reverse – Iterate oldest contributions first (default: newest)
namespaces – only iterate pages in these namespaces
showMinor – if True, iterate only minor edits; if False and not None, iterate only non-minor edits (default: iterate both)
top_only – if True, iterate only edits which are the latest revision (default: False)

Returns:

tuple of pywikibot.Page, revid, pywikibot.Timestamp, comment

Return type:

Generator[tuple[Page, int, Timestamp, str | None], None, None]

deleted_contributions(*, total=500, **kwargs)[source]#

Yield tuples describing this user’s deleted edits.

Added in version 5.5.

Parameters:

total (int | None) – Limit results to this number of pages

Keyword Arguments:

start – Iterate contributions starting at this Timestamp
end – Iterate contributions ending at this Timestamp
reverse – Iterate oldest contributions first (default: newest)
namespaces – Only iterate pages in these namespaces

Return type:

Generator[tuple[Page, Revision], None, None]

editCount(force=False)[source]#

Return edit count for a registered user.

Always returns 0 for ‘anonymous’ users.

Parameters:: force (bool) – if True, forces reloading the data from API
Return type:: int

property first_edit: tuple[Page, int, Timestamp, str | None] | None#

Return first user contribution.

Returns:: first user contribution entry
Returns:: tuple of pywikibot.Page, revid, pywikibot.Timestamp, comment

gender(force=False)[source]#

Return the gender of the user.

Parameters:: force (bool) – if True, forces reloading the data from API
Returns:: return ‘male’, ‘female’, or ‘unknown’
Return type:: str

getUserPage(subpage='')[source]#

Return a Page object relative to this user’s main page.

Parameters:: subpage (str) – subpage part to be appended to the main page title (optional)
Returns:: Page object of user page or user subpage
Return type:: Page

getUserTalkPage(subpage='')[source]#

Return a Page object relative to this user’s main talk page.

Parameters:: subpage (str) – subpage part to be appended to the main talk page title (optional)
Returns:: Page object of user talk page or user talk subpage
Return type:: Page

getprops(force=False)[source]#

Return a properties about the user.

Changed in version 9.0: detect range blocks

Parameters:: force (bool) – if True, forces reloading the data from API
Return type:: dict

groups(force=False)[source]#

Return a list of groups to which this user belongs.

The list of groups may be empty.

Parameters:: force (bool) – if True, forces reloading the data from API
Returns:: groups property
Return type:: list

isAnonymous()[source]#

Determine if the user is editing as an IP address.

See also

Return type:: bool

isEmailable(force=False)[source]#

Determine whether emails may be send to this user through MediaWiki.

Parameters:: force (bool) – if True, forces reloading the data from API
Return type:: bool

isRegistered(force=False)[source]#

Determine if the user is registered on the site.

It is possible to have a page named User:xyz and not have a corresponding user with username xyz.

The page does not need to exist for this method to return True.

See also

isAnonymous()

Parameters:: force (bool) – if True, forces reloading the data from API
Return type:: bool

is_CIDR()[source]#

Determine if the input refers to a range of IP addresses.

Added in version 9.0.

See also

Return type:: bool

is_blocked(force=False)[source]#

Determine whether the user is currently blocked.

Changed in version 7.0: renamed from isBlocked() method

Changed in version 9.0: can also detect range blocks.

Parameters:: force (bool) – if True, forces reloading the data from API
Return type:: bool

is_locked(force=False)[source]#

Determine whether the user is currently locked globally.

Added in version 7.0.

Parameters:: force (bool) – if True, forces reloading the data from API
Return type:: bool

property is_thankable: bool#: Determine if the user has thanks notifications enabled.

Note

This doesn’t accurately determine if thanks is enabled for user. Privacy of thanks preferences is under discussion, please see T57401#2216861 and T120753#1863894.

property last_edit: tuple[Page, int, Timestamp, str | None] | None#

Return last user contribution.

Returns:: last user contribution entry
Returns:: tuple of pywikibot.Page, revid, pywikibot.Timestamp, comment

property last_event#

Return last user activity.

Returns:: last user log entry
Return type:: LogEntry or None

logevents(**kwargs)[source]#

Yield user activities.

Keyword Arguments:

logtype – only iterate entries of this type (see mediawiki api documentation for available types)
page – only iterate entries affecting this page
namespace – namespace to retrieve logevents from
start – only iterate entries from and after this Timestamp
end – only iterate entries up to and through this Timestamp
reverse – if True, iterate oldest entries first (default: newest)
tag – only iterate entries tagged with this tag
total – maximum number of events to iterate

Return type:

iterable

registration(force=False)[source]#

Fetch registration date for this user.

Parameters:: force (bool) – if True, forces reloading the data from API
Return type:: Timestamp | None

renamed_target()[source]#

Return a User object for the target this user was renamed to.

If this user was not renamed, it will raise a NoRenameTargetError.

Usage:

>>> site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:de')
>>> user = pywikibot.User(site, 'Foo')
>>> user.isRegistered()
False
>>> target = user.renamed_target()
>>> target.isRegistered()
True
>>> target.title(with_ns=False)
'Foo~dewiki'
>>> target.renamed_target()
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
pywikibot.exceptions.NoRenameTargetError: Rename target user ...

See also

BasePage.moved_target()
BasePage.getRedirectTarget()

Added in version 9.4.

Raises:: NoRenameTargetError – user was not renamed
Return type:: User

rights(force=False)[source]#

Return user rights.

Parameters:: force (bool) – if True, forces reloading the data from API
Returns:: return user rights
Return type:: list

send_email(subject, text, ccme=False)[source]#

Send an email to this user via MediaWiki’s email interface.

Parameters:

subject (str) – the subject header of the mail
text (str) – mail body
ccme (bool) – if True, sends a copy of this email to the bot

Raises:

NotEmailableError – the user of this User is not emailable
UserRightsError – logged in user does not have ‘sendemail’ right

Returns:

operation successful indicator

Return type:

bool

unblock(reason=None)[source]#

Remove the block for the user.

Parameters:: reason (str | None) – Reason for the unblock.
Return type:: None

uploadedImages(total=10)[source]#

Yield tuples describing files uploaded by this user.

Each tuple is composed of a pywikibot.Page, the timestamp (str in ISO8601 format), comment (str) and a bool for pageid > 0. Pages returned are not guaranteed to be unique.

Parameters:: total (int) – limit result to this number of pages

property username: str#

The username.

Convenience method that returns the title of the page with namespace prefix omitted, which is the username.

class page.WikibaseEntity(repo, id_=None)[source]#

Bases: object

The base interface for Wikibase entities.

Each entity is identified by a data repository it belongs to and an identifier.

Variables:

DATA_ATTRIBUTES – dictionary which maps data attributes (e.g., ‘labels’, ‘claims’) to appropriate collection classes (e.g., LanguageDict, ClaimCollection)
entity_type – entity type identifier
title_pattern – regular expression which matches all possible entity ids for this entity type

Parameters:

repo (DataSite) – Entity repository.
id (str or None, -1 and None mean non-existing) – Entity identifier.
id_ (str | None)

DATA_ATTRIBUTES: dict[str, Any] = {}#

concept_uri()[source]#

Return the full concept URI.

Raises:: NoWikibaseEntityError – if this entity’s id is not known
Return type:: str

editEntity(data=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Edit an entity using Wikibase wbeditentity API.

This function is wrapped around by:

WikibasePage.editLabels()
WikibasePage.editDescriptions()
WikibasePage.editAliases()
ItemPage.setSitelinks()

See also

WikibasePage.editEntity()

Changed in version 8.0.1: Copy snak IDs/hashes (T327607)

Parameters:: data (ENTITY_DATA_TYPE | None) – Data to be saved
Return type:: None

exists()[source]#

Determine if an entity exists in the data repository.

Return type:: bool

get(force=False)[source]#

Fetch all entity data and cache it.

Parameters:: force (bool) – override caching
Raises:: NoWikibaseEntityError – if this entity doesn’t exist
Returns:: actual data which entity holds
Return type:: dict

getID(numeric=False)[source]#

Get the identifier of this entity.

Parameters:: numeric (bool) – Strip the first letter and return an int
Return type:: int | str

get_data_for_new_entity()[source]#

Return data required for creation of a new entity.

Override it if you need.

Return type:: dict

classmethod is_valid_id(entity_id)[source]#

Whether the string can be a valid id of the entity type.

Parameters:: entity_id (str) – The ID to test.
Return type:: bool

property latest_revision_id: int | None#

Get the revision id for the most recent revision of the entity.

Return type:: int or None if it cannot be determined
Raises:: NoWikibaseEntityError – if the entity doesn’t exist

toJSON(diffto=None)[source]#

Create JSON suitable for Wikibase API.

When diffto is provided, JSON representing differences to the provided data is created.

Parameters:: diffto (dict | None) – JSON containing entity data
Return type:: dict

class page.WikibasePage(site, title='', **kwargs)[source]#

Bases: BasePage, WikibaseEntity

Mixin base class for Wikibase entities which are also pages (eg. items).

There should be no need to instantiate this directly.

If title is provided, either ns or entity_type must also be provided, and will be checked against the title parsed using the Page initialisation logic.

Parameters:

site (pywikibot.site.DataSite) – Wikibase data site
title (str) – normalized title of the page

Keyword Arguments:

ns – namespace
entity_type – Wikibase entity type

Raises:

TypeError – incorrect use of parameters
ValueError – incorrect namespace
pywikibot.exceptions.Error – title parsing problems
NotImplementedError – the entity type is not supported

addClaim(claim, bot=True, **kwargs)[source]#

Add a claim to the entity.

Parameters:

claim (pywikibot.page.Claim) – The claim to add
bot (bool) – Whether to flag as bot (if possible)

Keyword Arguments:

asynchronous – if True, launch a separate thread to add claim asynchronously
callback – a callable object that will be called after the claim has been added. It must take two arguments: (1) a WikibasePage object, and (2) an exception instance, which will be None if the entity was saved successfully. This is intended for use by bots that need to keep track of which saves were successful.

Return type:

None

botMayEdit()[source]#

Return whether bots may edit this page.

Because there is currently no system to mark a page that it shouldn’t be edited by bots on Wikibase pages it always returns True. The content of the page is not text but a dict, the original way (to search for a template) doesn’t apply.

Returns:: True
Return type:: bool

editAliases(aliases, **kwargs)[source]#

Edit entity aliases.

aliases should be a dict, with the key as a language or a site object. The value should be a list of strings.

Refer editEntity() for asynchronous and callback usage.

Usage:

>>> repo = pywikibot.Site('wikidata:test')
>>> item = pywikibot.ItemPage(repo, 'Q68')
>>> item.editAliases({'en': ['pwb test item']})

Parameters:: aliases (ALIASES_TYPE)
Return type:: None

editDescriptions(descriptions, **kwargs)[source]#

Edit entity descriptions.

descriptions should be a dict, with the key as a language or a site object. The value should be the string to set it to. You can set it to '' to remove the description.

Refer editEntity() for asynchronous and callback usage.

Usage:

>>> repo = pywikibot.Site('wikidata:test')
>>> item = pywikibot.ItemPage(repo, 'Q68')
>>> item.editDescriptions({'en': 'Pywikibot test'})

Parameters:: descriptions (LANGUAGE_TYPE)
Return type:: None

editEntity(data=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Edit an entity using Wikibase wbeditentity API.

This function is wrapped around by:

editLabels()
editDescriptions()
editAliases()
ItemPage.setSitelinks()

It supports asynchronous and callback keyword arguments. The callback function is intended for use by bots that need to keep track of which saves were successful. The minimal callback function signature is:

def my_callback(page: WikibasePage, err: Optional[Exception]) -> Any:

The arguments are:

page: a WikibasePage object
err: an Exception instance, which will be None if the page was saved successfully

See also

WikibaseEntity.editEntity()

Parameters:

data (ENTITY_DATA_TYPE | None) – Data to be saved
kwargs (Any)

Keyword Arguments:

asynchronous (bool) – if True, launch a separate thread to edit asynchronously
callback (Callable[[WikibasePage, Optional[Exception]], Any]) – a callable object that will be called after the entity has been updated. It must take two arguments, see above.

Return type:

None

editLabels(labels, **kwargs)[source]#

Edit entity labels.

labels should be a dict, with the key as a language or a site object. The value should be the string to set it to. You can set it to '' to remove the label.

Refer editEntity() for asynchronous and callback usage.

Usage:

>>> repo = pywikibot.Site('wikidata:test')
>>> item = pywikibot.ItemPage(repo, 'Q68')
>>> item.editLabels({'en': 'Test123'})

Parameters:: labels (LANGUAGE_TYPE)
Return type:: None

exists()[source]#

Determine if an entity exists in the data repository.

Return type:: bool

get(force=False, *args, **kwargs)[source]#

Fetch all page data, and cache it.

Parameters:: force (bool) – override caching
Raises:: NotImplementedError – a value in args or kwargs
Returns:: actual data which entity holds
Return type:: dict

Note

dicts returned by this method are references to content of this entity and their modifying may indirectly cause unwanted change to the live content

property latest_revision_id: int#

Get the revision id for the most recent revision of the entity.

Return type:: int
Raises:: pywikibot.exceptions.NoPageError – if the entity doesn’t exist

namespace()[source]#

Return the number of the namespace of the entity.

Returns:: Namespace id
Return type:: int

removeClaims(claims, **kwargs)[source]#

Remove the claims from the entity.

Parameters:: claims (list or Claim) – list of claims to be removed
Return type:: None

set_redirect_target(target_page, create=False, force=False, keep_section=False, save=True, **kwargs)[source]#

Set target of a redirect for a Wikibase page.

Has not been implemented in the Wikibase API yet, except for ItemPage.

Parameters:

create (bool)
force (bool)
keep_section (bool)
save (bool)

Return type:

NoReturn

page.html2unicode(text, ignore=None, exceptions=None)[source]#

Replace HTML entities with equivalent unicode.

Parameters:

ignore (list[int] | None) – HTML entities to ignore
text (str)

Return type:

str

`page._collections` Wikibase Entity Structures#

Structures holding data for Wikibase entities.

class pywikibot.page._collections.AliasesDict(data=None)[source]#

Bases: BaseDataDict

A structure holding aliases for a Wikibase entity.

It is a mapping from a language to a list of strings.

classmethod fromJSON(data, repo=None)[source]#: Construct a new AliasesDict from JSON.

classmethod normalizeData(data)[source]#

Helper function to expand data into the Wikibase API structure.

Changed in version 7.7: raises TypeError if data value is not a list.

Parameters:: data (dict) – Data to normalize
Returns:: The dict with normalized data
Raises:: TypeError – data values must be a list
Return type:: dict

toJSON(diffto=None)[source]#

Create JSON suitable for Wikibase API.

When diffto is provided, JSON representing differences to the provided data is created.

Parameters:: diffto (dict | None) – JSON containing entity data
Return type:: dict

class pywikibot.page._collections.ClaimCollection(repo)[source]#

Bases: MutableMapping

A structure holding claims for a Wikibase entity.

classmethod fromJSON(data, repo)[source]#: Construct a new ClaimCollection from JSON.

classmethod new_empty(repo)[source]#: Construct a new empty ClaimCollection.

classmethod normalizeData(data)[source]#

Helper function to expand data into the Wikibase API structure.

Parameters:: data – Data to normalize
Returns:: The dict with normalized data
Return type:: dict

set_on_item(item)[source]#

Set Claim.on_item attribute for all claims in this collection.

Return type:: None

toJSON(diffto=None)[source]#

Create JSON suitable for Wikibase API.

When diffto is provided, JSON representing differences to the provided data is created.

Parameters:: diffto (dict | None) – JSON containing entity data
Return type:: dict

class pywikibot.page._collections.LanguageDict(data=None)[source]#

Bases: BaseDataDict

A structure holding language data for a Wikibase entity.

Language data are mappings from a language to a string. It can be labels, descriptions and others.

classmethod fromJSON(data, repo=None)[source]#: Construct a new LanguageDict from JSON.

classmethod normalizeData(data)[source]#

Helper function to expand data into the Wikibase API structure.

Parameters:: data (dict) – Data to normalize
Returns:: The dict with normalized data

toJSON(diffto=None)[source]#

Create JSON suitable for Wikibase API.

When diffto is provided, JSON representing differences to the provided data is created.

Parameters:: diffto (dict | None) – JSON containing entity data
Return type:: dict

class pywikibot.page._collections.SiteLinkCollection(repo, data=None)[source]#

Bases: MutableMapping

A structure holding SiteLinks for a Wikibase item.

Parameters:: repo (pywikibot.site.DataSite) – the Wikibase site on which badges are defined

classmethod fromJSON(data, repo)[source]#: Construct a new SiteLinkCollection from JSON.

static getdbName(site)[source]#

Helper function to obtain a dbName for a Site.

Parameters:: site (pywikibot.site.BaseSite or str) – The site to look up.

classmethod new_empty(repo)[source]#: Construct a new empty SiteLinkCollection.

classmethod normalizeData(data)[source]#

Helper function to expand data into the Wikibase API structure.

Parameters:: data (list or dict) – Data to normalize
Returns:: The dict with normalized data
Return type:: dict

toJSON(diffto=None)[source]#

Create JSON suitable for Wikibase API.

When diffto is provided, JSON representing differences to the provided data is created.

Parameters:: diffto (dict | None) – JSON containing entity data
Return type:: dict

class pywikibot.page._collections.SubEntityCollection(repo, data=None)[source]#

Bases: MutableSequence

Ordered collection of sub-entities indexed by their ids.

Parameters:

repo (pywikibot.site.DataSite) – Wikibase site
data (iterable) – iterable of LexemeSubEntity

classmethod fromJSON(data, repo)[source]#: Construct a new SubEntityCollection from JSON.

insert(index, obj)[source]#

Insert a sub-entity to the collection.

Return type:: None

classmethod new_empty(repo)[source]#: Construct a new empty SubEntityCollection.

classmethod normalizeData(data)[source]#

Helper function to expand data into the Wikibase API structure.

Parameters:: data (list) – Data to normalize
Returns:: the altered dict from parameter data.
Return type:: dict

toJSON(diffto=None)[source]#

Create JSON suitable for Wikibase API.

When diffto is provided, JSON representing differences to the provided data is created.

Parameters:: diffto (dict | None) – JSON containing entity data
Return type:: dict

`page._decorators` — Page Decorators#

Decorators for Page objects.

page._decorators.allow_asynchronous(func)[source]#

Decorator to make it possible to run a BasePage method asynchronously.

This is done when the method is called with kwarg asynchronous=True. Optionally, you can also provide kwarg callback, which, if provided, is a callable that gets the page as the first and a possible exception that occurred during saving in the second thread or None as the second argument.

`page._revision` — Page Revision#

Object representing page revision.

class page._revision.Revision(**kwargs)[source]#

Bases: Mapping

A structure holding information about a single revision of a Page.

Each data item can be accessed either by its key or as an attribute with the attribute name equal to the key e.g.:

>>> r = Revision(comment='Sample for Revision access')
>>> r.comment == r['comment']
True
>>> r.comment
'Sample for Revision access'

See also

`page._toolforge` module#

Object representing interface to toolforge tools.

Added in version 7.7.

class page._toolforge.WikiBlameMixin[source]#

Bases: object

Page mixin for main authorship.

Added in version 7.7.

WIKIBLAME_CODES = ('als', 'bar', 'de', 'en', 'it', 'nds', 'sco')#: Supported wikipedia site codes

authorship(n=None, *, min_chars=0, min_pct=0.0, max_pct_sum=None)[source]#

Retrieve authorship attribution of an article.

This method uses WikiHistory to retrieve the authors measured by character count.

Sample:

>>> import pywikibot
>>> site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:en')
>>> page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Pywikibot')
>>> auth = page.authorship()
>>> auth
{'1234qwer1234qwer4': (68, 100.0)}

Important

Only implemented for pages in Main, Project, Category and Template namespaces and only wikipedias of WIKIBLAME_CODES are supported.

Added in version 9.3: XTools is used to retrieve authors. This method replaces main_authors().

Changed in version 10.1: WikiHistory is used to retrieve authors due to T392694.

Here are the differences between these two implementations:

Added in version 10.1.

Implemented from version 7.7 until 9.2 (with main_authors() method) and from 10.1.
Main, Project, Category and Template namespaces are supported
Only ‘als’, ‘bar’, ‘de’, ‘en’, ‘it’, ‘nds’ and ‘sco’ Wikipedias are supported.
Revision ID revid or revision date is not supported. Always the latest revision is used.
Only the most 5 authors are given.
No additional parsing library is required.

See also

Parameters:

n (int | None) – Only return the first n or fewer authors.
min_chars (int) – Only return authors with more than min_chars chars changes.
min_pct (float) – Only return authors with more than min_pct percentage edits.
max_pct_sum (float | None) – Only return authors until the prcentage sum reached max_pct_sum.

Returns:

Character count and percentage of edits for each username.

Raises:

NotImplementedError – unsupported site or unsupported namespace.
NoPageError – The page does not exist.
TimeoutError – WikiHistory timeout

Return type:

dict[str, tuple[int, float]]

main_authors(onlynew=NotImplemented)[source]#

Retrieve the 5 topmost main authors of an article.

Sample:

>>> import pywikibot
>>> site = pywikibot.Site('wikipedia:de')
>>> page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Project:Pywikibot')
>>> auth = page.main_authors()
>>> auth.most_common(1)
[('DrTrigon', 37)]

Deprecated since version 9.3: use authorship() instead.

See also

authorship() for further informations

Returns:

Percentage of edits for each username

Raises:

NotImplementedError – unsupported site or unsupported namespace.
NoPageError – The page does not exist.
TimeoutError – WikiHistory timeout

page — MediaWiki Pages#

page._collections Wikibase Entity Structures#

page._decorators — Page Decorators#

page._revision — Page Revision#

page._toolforge module#

`page` — MediaWiki Pages#

`page._collections` Wikibase Entity Structures#

`page._decorators` — Page Decorators#

`page._revision` — Page Revision#

`page._toolforge` module#