Manual:Pywikibot/pwb.py

Wikimedia Git repository has this file: pwb.py

pwb.py is a wrapper script and script entry point of Pywikibot .

Usage

Run scripts using:

$ python pwb.py <pwb options> <name_of_script> <options>

and it will use the package directory to store all user files, fix up search paths so the package does not need to be installed, etc.

Currently <pwb options> are global options. This can be used for tests to set the default site like (see T216825):

$ python pwb.py -lang:de bot_tests -v

As a site package you may call the wrapper script as:

$ pwb <pwb options> <name_of_script> <options>

When running on a local Linux platform, you might define the pwb command as:

alias pwb='/users/username/pywikibot/pwb.py'