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[edit] Writing a bot
I want to write and run a bot to perform simple tasks. I was gonna start with adding user pages to a user category. I figure if i can do that i can figure out how to do other stuff too. I've been looking around some bot pages, but not having any formal or extensive knowledge of programming, networks or the internet, I'm still not sure what to do. I can't seem to find source code for simple bots to modify, and even if i wrote a bot, I wouldn't be sure what to do with it. Do i have to have it installed on some kind of server, or can i just activate it on my computer at home when i want to run it?
- This service page probably contains all the info that you need about getting and/or running a bot on one (or more) Wikimedia projects. --M/ 00:20, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, can anyone give me a bot that finds spam urls in my wiki and reverts them to a previous version. If i input a blacklist of URL's and it found them itself. Spammers are posting many urls on lots of different pages to spam sites. Thanks. --86.138.109.70 10:42, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bot Error
I'm trying to write my own bot in Perl, but i'm getting a simple and stupid error that I can't quite figure out. I send out a get request:
GET /wiki/Wikibooks_portal HTTP/1.0 Host: en.wikibooks.org User-Agent: mybot Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
and I always get an "HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found" error. However, if i change my resource to "/" instead "/wiki/Wikibooks_portal", it gets found perfectly. Is there something special that I am missing? --Whiteknight 04:17, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
- PS: It doesnt work for any sub-resource, only the root resource. If i change the url, I can look at sub-resources on other web-servers, however. That means that it is doing something different on wikimedia servers (i've done several tests on different project pages). --Whiteknight 04:21, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] I want to make a bot for my own mediawiki
All explanation are for running a bot for wikipedia, wiki... There is no explanation about how to run its own bot. Where do I input the url of my mediawiki for the bot to connect please?
[edit] Simple bot to access wiki content?
I'm not sure if this fits here, but here goes: I would like to write a bot to do something like accessing a wikimedia server (ex. wiktionary). It would not do anything but access the information, and the retrieved data would be saved to a local database (updateable periodically). It's intended use is a service for an IRC bot that allows it to retrieve data and send it to an IRC channel. Does this fit here (if not, then where might it?), and would this be considered acceptable use? Thanks, Timothyb89 07:52, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
- Dumps. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 09:59, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Question
Would it be a ground for blocking if a user denies bot processes being done with one's account but a bot process is indeed being done? -- Felipe Aira 11:03, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
- Possibly. That's a question for the local community, actually. If the edits are helpful, I'd suggest instead granting that user a bot account to perform those edits instead, however.~Kylu (u|t) 23:44, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Bot creation
How easy would it be to create a bot to change all instances of ƿ to w and all instances of ȝ to g for the Anglo-Saxon wikipedia, maintaining case (capital/lowercase)? --JJohnson1701 07:28, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
- Trivial to do, but probably not a good idea - nearly every page would have to be edited. — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 19:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Creation of bot TrufflesBot I
This is just ClueBot exported here to fight vandalism. I asked Cobi on Wikipedia whether it would be OK for me to use it on another wiki. When he responds I'll change the notice to "Go ahead". The source is at the user page.
Don't go ahead yet! Professor Fiendish 08:11, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
