Editing a wiki

[KillSwitch]

Hey guys,
Is it possible to edit a wiki page with python, including logging in
to edit the page, and inserting text into the edit box, etc. I was
thinking maybe python would be the language to do this in, because I
have to iterate through every line in a text file and gather info
about what to enter in the wiki that way, then put that text in a wiki
page. It's sort of a program-documenting program. If it's possible to
do this, I would make a special way of entering comments in the source
files, like maybe --[[##title code here]] and then --[[@@code example
here]] with the two symbols at the beginning of the comment dictating
what to enter where. Thanks for any input.

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hey guys,
Is it possible to edit a wiki page with python, including logging in
to edit the page, and inserting text into the edit box, etc. I was
thinking maybe python would be the language to do this in, because I
have to iterate through every line in a text file and gather info
about what to enter in the wiki that way, then put that text in a wiki
page. It's sort of a program-documenting program. If it's possible to
do this, I would make a special way of entering comments in the source
files, like maybe --[[##title code here]] and then --[[@@code example
here]] with the two symbols at the beginning of the comment dictating
what to enter where. Thanks for any input.

Take a look at mechanize, which is a python web-client impostor thingy -
it should be easy to use for this purpose.


Diez

 

[Chris Rebert]

Hey guys,
Is it possible to edit a wiki page with python, including logging in
to edit the page, and inserting text into the edit box, etc.

Depends on the wiki. For Mediawiki, yes: http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Paul Boddie]

Hey guys,
Is it possible to edit a wiki page with python, including logging in
to edit the page, and inserting text into the edit box, etc. I was
thinking maybe python would be the language to do this in, because I
have to iterate through every line in a text file and gather info
about what to enter in the wiki that way, then put that text in a wiki
page.

What you seem to want is a way of interacting with Web forms, and
there are various Python client libraries which do this:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebClientProgramming

However, see below.

It's sort of a program-documenting program. If it's possible to
do this, I would make a special way of entering comments in the source
files, like maybe --[[##title code here]] and then --[[@@code example
here]] with the two symbols at the beginning of the comment dictating
what to enter where. Thanks for any input.

Generally, you have to be careful interacting with Web sites in an
automated fashion: Wiki sites in particular often have measures in
place to deter "robots" and behaviour which looks like spamming. If
the Wiki is under your control, you'd be better off uploading content
via the data store (such as the filesystem for MoinMoin and some other
Wiki solutions) or via specific mechanisms provided for administration
of the Wiki.

Paul

 

[Paul Rubin]

Is it possible to edit a wiki page with python, including logging in
to edit the page, and inserting text into the edit box, etc.

If you are talking about MediaWiki (the software behind Wikipedia),
it already has an API for which there are several Python clients.
See:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_Code

If you are looking to use Python (or any other language) to
automatically edit Wikipedia itself, you need approval for that.
See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy

 

[yaka]

If you are talking about MediaWiki (the software behind Wikipedia),
it already has an API for which there are several Python clients.
See:

   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_Code

If you are looking to use Python (or any other language) to
automatically edit Wikipedia itself, you need approval for that.
See:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy

It's actually a wiki owned by a friend.