Thank you very much for your answer. The bot user has writing privileges. Actually the bot worked fine when we made the wiki public for a while. I didn't try the login -force thing yet....let you know if it worked.
Thank you, Matthias Sent from my mobile device. Am 13.04.2013 um 21:18 schrieb Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]>: > Hi Matthias, > > On 27 February 2013 12:20, Matthias Schlögl <[email protected]> wrote: >> I try to edit pages in a private wiki with pywikipedia. the wiki is password >> protected, so you cant even look at a page without logging in. While the >> login is working normal, I get an error that I dont have access to the api >> as soon as I try to actually do anything: >> RuntimeError: {u'info': u'You need read permission to use this module', >> u'code': u'readapidenied'} >> {u'info': u'You need read permission to use this module', u'code': >> u'readapidenied'} >> The user account of the bot is active and the bot user group should have >> access to the api. >> Does anybody have an idea how I can solve this problem? > > Sorry for the late response. I can think of three things that could cause > this. > > First of all, the bot might be trying to read the page without being > logged in. This should *not* happen if you have logged in explicitly > using login.py, though. You could try to force a re-login (python > login.py -force , or remove the cookies file for rewrite) to see if > that happens. You could also run the bot script with -v -v ('doubly > verbose') to see the API queries being sent. A network sniffer would > also help, but I'm not sure how easy that would be to do for you :-) > > Secondly, maybe the bot user *doesn't* actually have read rights via > the API. I'm not completely sure how to check this in a simple way, > and it doesn't sound very plausible to me either ;-) > > Thirdly, there may very well be a bug in the framework. Unfortunately, > most of us don't use the bot on a local closed wiki, so it doesn't get > quite the same amount of testing. > > Best, > Merlijn > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
