I just wanted to put() a simple page on a MediaWiki 1.16
instance, where I have to use screen scraping (use_api=False).
There is something strange however:
There is an API call invoked by _getBlocked:
/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo
Here's my backtrace:
File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 693, in get
expandtemplates = expandtemplates)
File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 743, in _getEditPage
return self._getEditPageOld(get_redirect, throttle, sysop, oldid,
change_edit_time)
File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 854, in _getEditPageOld
text = self.site().getUrl(path, sysop = sysop)
File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 5881, in getUrl
self._getUserDataOld(text, sysop = sysop)
File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 6016, in _getUserDataOld
blocked = self._getBlock(sysop = sysop)
File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 5424, in _getBlock
data = query.GetData(params, self)
File "pywikipedia/query.py", line 146, in GetData
jsontext = site.getUrl( path, retry=True, sysop=sysop, data=data)
getUrl(), which is also called from API, seems always
to call _getUserDataOld(text) where text is ... API output
so it tries to do strange things on that and gives warnings
like
Note: this language does not allow global bots.
WARNING: Token not found on wikipedia:pl. You will not be able to edit any page.
which is nonsense since the analyzed text is not HTML - only API output.
If getUrl() is supposed to be a low-level call, why call _getUserDataOld()
there?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/7461
has introduced this call there.
It's easily reproducable by this:
import wikipedia
import config
config.use_api = False
wikipedia.verbose = True
s = wikipedia.getSite("pl", "wikipedia")
p = wikipedia.Page(s, u"User:Saper")
c = p.get()
c += "<!-- test -->"
p.put(c, u"Testing wiki", botflag=False)
//Saper
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