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- Installation
- ============
-
- This package contains the core :py:mod:`earwigbot`, abstracted to be usable
- and customizable by anyone running a bot on a MediaWiki site. Since it is
- modular, the IRC components can be disabled if desired. IRC commands and bot
- tasks specific to `my instance of EarwigBot`_ that I don't feel the average
- user will need are available from the repository `earwigbot-plugins`_.
-
- Latest release
- --------------
-
- EarwigBot is available from the `Python Package Index`_, so you can install
- the latest release with:
-
- pip install earwigbot
-
- There are a few sets of optional dependencies:
-
- - ``crypto``: Allows encrypting bot passwords and secrets in the config
- - ``sql``: Allows interfacing with MediaWiki databases (e.g. on Toolforge_)
- - ``copyvios``: Includes parsing libraries for checking copyright violations
- - ``dev``: Installs development dependencies (e.g. test runners)
-
- For example, to install all non-dev dependencies:
-
- pip install 'earwigbot[crypto,sql,copyvios]'
-
- Errors while pip is installing dependencies may be due to missing header
- files. For example, on Ubuntu, see `this StackOverflow post`_.
-
- Development version
- -------------------
-
- You can install the development version of the bot::
-
- git clone https://github.com/earwig/earwigbot.git
- cd earwigbot
- python3 -m venv venv
- . venv/bin/activate
- pip install -e '.[crypto,sql,copyvios,dev]'
-
- To run the bot's unit tests, run :command:`pytest` (requires the ``dev``
- dependencies). Coverage is currently rather incomplete.
-
- .. _my instance of EarwigBot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot
- .. _earwigbot-plugins: https://github.com/earwig/earwigbot-plugins
- .. _Python Package Index: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/earwigbot
- .. _Toolforge: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge
- .. _this StackOverflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6504810/how-to-install-lxml-on-ubuntu/6504860#6504860
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