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Running your own bot

• Meta:Using the python wikipediabot

For what use? E.g. add a footer to some categorized pages,^[1] add some wikilinks,^[2] archive in moving old talk to subpages,^[3] edit categories,^[4] manage templates.^[5]

Frameworks and interfaces for bot development

See API:Client Code

MediaWiki API is for convenient access to machine-readable data.

See also

• Meta:Bot

Tip for wiki admins: Manual:User rights management for setting bot access. robots.txt tells external web robots how to index your site. Extension:MassEditRegex - to allow regular expression edits through a special page.

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