Help:Bots

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Running your own bot

• meta:pywikipediabot

For what use? E.g. add a footer to some categorized pages,<ref>add_text.py</ref> add some wikilinks,<ref>replace.py</ref> archive in moving old talk to subpages,<ref>archivebot.py</ref> edit categories,<ref>category.py</ref> manage templates.<ref>template.py</ref>

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Frameworks and interfaces for bot development

See API:Client Code

MediaWiki API is for convenient access to machine-readable data.

See also

• meta:Bot

20px	Tip for wiki admins: Manual:User rights management for setting bot access. robots.txt tells external web robots how to index your site. Extension:MassEditRegex - to allow regular expression edits through a special page.