Thanks to all the replies so far. Looks like chunked upload is the way to go.
Cheers, Daniel On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > When browsing through commons, I happened to stumble upon > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Smallman12q/PyCJWiki which > appears to be a python bot that uses chunked uploading, and thus work > with files up to 500 mb big. Perhaps it would be helpful to you. > > --bawolff > > On 6/25/13, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: >> With the https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Chunked_uploads >> enabled, users can currently upload files up to 500MB, when using a >> supported browser (e.g. a current Firefox or Chrome). >> >> I think Daniel's question was about how to make this method work for a >> bot too, i.e. via the API rather than in a browser. >> >> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:52 PM, OQ <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I would assume given the previous reply that regardless of upload method, >>> chunked or otherwise, there is still the hard limit of how big the >>> resultant file can be. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Jun 25, 2013 5:44 PM, "Daniel Mietchen" >>>> <[email protected] >>>> > >>>> wrote: >>>> > my bot[1] occasionally stumbles upon files that are above 100MB and >>>> > thus does not upload them[2]. What do I have to do to get it set up >>>> > for handling these files too? >>>> >>>> this looks like the relevant section: >>>> >>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Upload#Chunked_uploading >>>> >>>> I don't know the current settings; you might need to enable chunked >>>> uploads >>>> in the MediaWiki prefs for the user you're uploading as. >>>> >>>> -Jeremy >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >> >> -- >> Tilman Bayer >> Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) >> Wikimedia Foundation >> IRC (Freenode): HaeB >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
