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

Ben Kurtovic 74ddc5b702 More work on wikitools, now with improved API queries and login. * Site's api_query() is much smarter. It uses a custom urllib2 URL opener with cookie support and catches URLErrors, raising its own brand new exception (SiteAPIError) when something is wrong. * The opener now uses a custom User-Agent, which is a constant in wiki.tools.constants. * Site instances automatically login via _login(), which accepts a username and password (provided via config by get_site()) and uses two api_query()s and stores the login data as cookies in self._cookiejar. Login data is not preserved between bot restarts yet. Login errors, e.g. a bad password or username, raise the new LoginError. * Site's get_user()'s username argument is now optional. If left blank, will return the current logged-in user, provided by an API query. * Misc cleanup throughout.		13 years ago
core	Committing changes made while working on feature/wikitools-core that don't apply to wikitools:	13 years ago
irc	Update AFCStatus and Rights IRC commands per wikitools updates.	13 years ago
lib	argh - bugfix in lib/blowfish.py	13 years ago
wiki	More work on wikitools, now with improved API queries and login.	13 years ago
.gitignore	Committing changes made while working on feature/wikitools-core that don't apply to wikitools:	13 years ago
LICENSE	new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup	13 years ago
README.md	update message in README to be a tad more verbose (and to match the github description)	13 years ago
earwigbot.py	import lib.blowfish in core.config and decrypt passwords correctly; Exception -> Error in custom config exception names	13 years ago

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.