A Python robot that edits Wikipedia and interacts with people over IRC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot

Ben Kurtovic 6aa2370900 Exception and function cleanup in wikitools: * Got rid of ConfigError from exceptions.py. * Try to load config ourselves if it isn't already, via the new _load_config() method of Site. It uses getpass if passwords are encrypted, as done by earwigbot.py. * Cleaned up UserNotFoundError in user.py and exceptions.py.		13年前
core	Committing changes made while working on feature/wikitools-core that don't apply to wikitools:	13年前
irc	added a bunch of new methods to User in wikitools; added one user-related exception to wikitools; moved .get_rights() call in IRC command !rights to .get_groups(), because get_rights() now returns actual rights (thanks to the API)	13年前
lib	argh - bugfix in lib/blowfish.py	13年前
wiki	Exception and function cleanup in wikitools:	13年前
.gitignore	Committing changes made while working on feature/wikitools-core that don't apply to wikitools:	13年前
LICENSE	new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup	13年前
README.md	update message in README to be a tad more verbose (and to match the github description)	13年前
earwigbot.py	import lib.blowfish in core.config and decrypt passwords correctly; Exception -> Error in custom config exception names	13年前

README.md

EarwigBot is a Python robot that edits Wikipedia and interacts with people over IRC.

History

Development began, based on the Pywikipedia framework, in early 2009. Approval for its fist task, a copyright violation detector, was carried out in May, and the bot has been running consistently ever since (with the exception of Jan/Feb 2011). It currently handles several ongoing tasks, ranging from statistics generation to category cleanup, and on-demand tasks such as WikiProject template tagging. Since it started running, the bot has made over 45,000 edits.

A project to rewrite it from scratch began in early April 2011, thus moving away from the Pywikipedia framework and allowing for less overall code, better integration between bot parts, and easier maintenance.