jayvdb added a subscriber: Omegat. jayvdb added a comment. @omegat, as @xzise has said, your URLs are wrong. The MediaWiki API is just plain old HTTP. If you cant get it to work in a web browser, it will not work in pywikibot. 1.23.8 (*.gamepedia.com) does __not__ support the new mode.
1.23 ---- http://barterempire.gamepedia.com/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <query> <general mainpage="Barter Empire Wiki" base="http://barterempire.gamepedia.com/Barter_Empire_Wiki"; sitename="Barter Empire Wiki" logo="http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/barterempire.gamepedia.com/b/bc/Wiki.png"; generator="MediaWiki 1.23.8" phpversion="5.4.28-1+deb.sury.org~precise+1" phpsapi="fpm-fcgi" dbtype="mysql" dbversion="5.5.31-55" imagewhitelistenabled="" langconversion="" titleconversion="" linkprefixcharset="" linkprefix="" linktrail="/^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD" git-hash="cf64e03e367f4ce136933709c86dcf9a75969a4b" case="first-letter" lang="en" fallback8bitEncoding="windows-1252" writeapi="" timezone="UTC" timeoffset="0" articlepath="/$1" scriptpath="" script="/index.php" server="http://barterempire.gamepedia.com"; wikiid="barterempire_gamepedia" time="2014-12-24T07:58:36Z" maxuploadsize="104857600" favicon="http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/barterempire.gamepedia.com/6/64/Favicon.ico";> <fallback /> <thumblimits> <limit>120</limit> <limit>150</limit> <limit>180</limit> <limit>200</limit> <limit>250</limit> <limit>300</limit> </thumblimits> <imagelimits> <limit width="320" height="240" /> <limit width="640" height="480" /> <limit width="800" height="600" /> <limit width="1024" height="768" /> <limit width="1280" height="1024" /> </imagelimits> </general> </query> </api> http://barterempire.gamepedia.com/api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=query+info <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <warnings> <paraminfo xml:space="preserve">Unrecognized value for parameter 'modules': query info</paraminfo> </warnings> <paraminfo> <modules /> </paraminfo> </api> Using percent encoding of the + doesnt help: http://barterempire.gamepedia.com/api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=query%2Binfo <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <warnings> <paraminfo xml:space="preserve">Unrecognized value for parameter 'modules': query+info</paraminfo> </warnings> <paraminfo> <modules /> </paraminfo> </api> And most importantly, the new mode test fails on this site, so it does not work on 1.23! $ python pwb.py generate_family_file.py http://barterempire.gamepedia.com/ barterempire Generating family file from http://barterempire.gamepedia.com/ ================================== api url: http://barterempire.gamepedia.com/api.php MediaWiki version: 1.23.8 ================================== Determining other languages... Loading wikis... * en... in cache Writing pywikibot/families/barterempire_family.py... $ gedit user-config.py $ python -m unittest -v tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo max_retries reduced from 25 to 1 for tests test_generators (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_init (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_init_pageset (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_modules (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) Test v1.8 modules exist. ... ok test_multiple_modules (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_new_mode (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... WARNING: API warning (paraminfo): Unrecognized value for parameter 'modules': main FAIL test_old_mode (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_prefixes (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) Test v1.8 module prefixes exist. ... ok test_query_modules_with_limits (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_with_invalid_module (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... WARNING: API warning (paraminfo): Unrecognized value for parameter 'modules': foobar ok test_with_module_info (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_with_module_revisions (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok ====================================================================== FAIL: test_new_mode (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "tests/api_tests.py", line 233, in test_new_mode pi.fetch(['info']) File "pywikibot/data/api.py", line 268, in fetch self._init() File "pywikibot/data/api.py", line 202, in _init main_modules_param = self.parameter('main', 'action') File "pywikibot/data/api.py", line 379, in parameter self.fetch(set([module])) File "pywikibot/data/api.py", line 281, in fetch assert(self._query_modules or _init) AssertionError ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 12 tests in 12.518s 1..24 ----- It also does not work on 1.24 $ python pwb.py generate_family_file.py http://baseballpedia.shoutwiki.com/ baseballpedia Generating family file from http://baseballpedia.shoutwiki.com/ ================================== api url: http://baseballpedia.shoutwiki.com/w/api.php MediaWiki version: 1.24.1 ================================== Determining other languages... Loading wikis... * ru... in cache Writing pywikibot/families/baseballpedia_family.py... $ python -m unittest -v tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo max_retries reduced from 25 to 1 for tests test_generators (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_init (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_init_pageset (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_modules (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) Test v1.8 modules exist. ... ok test_multiple_modules (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_new_mode (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... WARNING: API warning (paraminfo): Unrecognized value for parameter 'modules': main FAIL test_old_mode (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_prefixes (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) Test v1.8 module prefixes exist. ... ok test_query_modules_with_limits (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_with_invalid_module (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... WARNING: API warning (paraminfo): Unrecognized value for parameter 'modules': foobar ok test_with_module_info (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok test_with_module_revisions (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ... ok ====================================================================== FAIL: test_new_mode (tests.api_tests.TestParamInfo) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "tests/api_tests.py", line 233, in test_new_mode pi.fetch(['info']) File "pywikibot/data/api.py", line 268, in fetch self._init() File "pywikibot/data/api.py", line 202, in _init main_modules_param = self.parameter('main', 'action') File "pywikibot/data/api.py", line 379, in parameter self.fetch(set([module])) File "pywikibot/data/api.py", line 281, in fetch assert(self._query_modules or _init) AssertionError ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 12 tests in 14.438s FAILED (failures=1) http://baseballpedia.shoutwiki.com/w/api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=query+info http://baseballpedia.shoutwiki.com/w/api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=query%2Binfo 1.25 ---- It does work on the WMF projects, because they are running 1.25. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=query%2Binfo Here is the change which introduced the new mode. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160798/ The WMF team has not added it to the release notes on the wiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25 But it is mentioned in their release notes in Git. https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/master/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77966 REPLY HANDLER ACTIONS Reply to comment or attach files, or !close, !claim, !unsubscribe or !assign <username>. 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