Depending on what you are trying to do, you may be able to do it with the API instead of snoopy. I wrote a small php framework/class extension that allows you to easily do things from edits, to page creates with just some simple methods.
I used to do a lot of editing pre-api with snoopy so I may be able to go back and look for that is you are set on using it. -Adam On Jul 21, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Alok Watve wrote: > Hello > > We have a mediawiki installation that we are using to maintain > biodiveristy information. > I want to write a custom bot which goes through a bunch of pages and > makes some trivial changes periodically. > > I am trying to write a bot to do this and I am using BasicBot class > along with Snoopy (description is here : > http://wikisum.com/w/User:Adam/Creating_MediaWiki_bots_in_PHP) > > From the log files I can see that my bot logins successfully and gets > a cookie brahma_session=VERY_LONG_HEX_NUMBER > However, when he bot tries to use this cookie to login, it fails. I > verified that apache receives the cookie but for some reason mediawiki > does not recognize it and throws "login failure (or user not logged in > to make change)" kind of error. Hence the bot fails to do any change. > > Can anyone help me diagnose whats going wrong here ? Any help will be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Alok > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
