MediaWiki/tools/mwpush.pl

mwpush.pl is a Perl script which submits any data provided on standard input (or in filenames given as the last argument(s) on the command line, see Perl diamond operator) to a given Wiki page on a given MediaWiki wiki. It was developed by Keith D. Tyler and uses code taken from  by Eloquence, adapted for page editing. This page is listed at Tools/Editing tools.

Of course, it is up to the operator of this script to:
 * Ensure that the edits of other users are not lost
 * Ensure that the script does not prove a burdensome load on the infrastructure. A good measure of hour-to-hour loads is indicated by the "job queue length" in Special:Statistics. In 2007, if that value is more than 500,000, then the servers are probably rather busy.

See also Bot policy and the Python-based tool Using the python wikipediabot which is more up-to-date.

Usage
cat wikitext.txt | mwpush.pl -l UserName -p PassWord -w WikiSite -t WikiPage [-eh] (or, alternately:) mwpush.pl -l UserName -p PassWord -w WikiSite -t WikiPage [-eh] wikitext.txt

where:


 * UserName is the name of a user on the target Wiki
 * PassWord is the Wiki password for that user
 * WikiSite is the hostname and path to a given wiki (for example,  or  ). Do not include http:// or a trailing slash.
 * WikiPage is the verbatim name of the page you want to submit content to
 * wikitext.txt is the name of the file containing your Wiki-ready content

Optional arguments:


 * -h provides a brief usage guide
 * -e only updates the target page if it does not already exist

Source
Source of mwpush.pl as of 00:51, 6 March 2008 (UTC)


 * 1) !/usr/bin/perl
 * 2) mwpush.pl - Push page data to a Wikimedia server
 * 3) By WikiPedia:User:KeithTyler
 * 4) Portions largely taken or based on upload.pl by WikiPedia:User:Eloquence

use Getopt::Std; use LWP::Simple; use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Request; use HTTP::Response; use HTTP::Cookies;
 * 1) call requirements
 * 1) use warnings;

getopts('l:p:w:t:he');

if ($opt_h) { die "Usage: mwpush.pl -w  -t -l -p [-e] [files ...]\n"; }

if (!$opt_l) { die "Provide Wiki login with -l"; } if (!$opt_p) { die "Provide Wiki password with -p"; } if (!$opt_w) { die "Provide Wiki hostname and path with -w"; } if (!$opt_t) { die "Provide Wiki page name with -t"; }

my $username=$opt_l; my $password=$opt_p; my $WIKI_PATH=$opt_w; my $WIKI_PAGE=$opt_t;

my $onlyifempty=$opt_e;


 * 1) Login to wiki

my $browser=LWP::UserAgent->new; my @ns_headers = ( 'User-Agent' => 'MediaWiki Pusher 0.1 by KeithTyler', #Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0', 'Accept' => 'image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */*', 'Accept-Charset' => 'iso-8859-1,*,utf-8', 'Accept-Language' => 'en-US', );
 * 1) Set up connection data

$browser->cookie_jar( {} );
 * 1) Hold cookies

$response=$browser->post("http://".$WIKI_PATH."/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin", @ns_headers, Content=>[wpName=>$username,wpPassword=>$password,wpRemember=>"1",wpLoginAttempt=>"Log in"]);
 * 1) Make login request

if($response->code!=302) { print "We weren't able to login. This could have the following causes:
 * 1) After logging in, we should be redirected to another page.
 * 2) If we aren't, something is wrong.

Solution: Re-run script with correct credentials. Solution: Go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_upload_service and get a new version of the upload script. are uploading to has cookie check disabled. Solution: Try setting \$ignore_login_error to 1.
 * The username ($username) or password may be incorrect.
 * The MediaWiki software on the target host has been upgraded.
 * You are trying to hack this script for other wikis. The wiki you

Regardless, we will now try to write the output from the server to mwpush.debug.out....\n\n";       open(DEBUG,">mwpush.debug.out") or die "Could not write file.\n";        print DEBUG $response->as_string;        print "This seems to have worked. Take a look at the file for further information or send it to moeller AT scireview DOT de if you need help debugging the script.\n";       close(DEBUG);        exit 1; }


 * 1) Get a wpEditToken


 * 1) We need to load our target page first in edit mode to capture a
 * 2) wpEditToken.  Without this the submit page will not submit.

$response=$browser -> get("http://".$WIKI_PATH."/index.php?title=".$WIKI_PAGE."&action=edit",     @ns_headers);

my $startTime; my $editToken; my $content; $content = $response->as_string;

($editToken) = ( $content =~ m/value\=\"([0-9a-f\+\\]*)\" name\=\"wpEditToken\"/ ); ($editTime) = ( $content =~ m/value\=\"([0-9a-f]*)\" name\=\"wpEdittime\"/ ); ($startTime) = ( $content =~ m/value\=\"([0-9a-f]*)\" name\=\"wpStarttime\"/ );
 * 1) Get EditToken
 * 2) Note: wpEditToken can contain "+" and "\"


 * 1) Determine page existence state
 * 2) If we find "selected new" (a CSS class set), it is a new (empty) page
 * 3) This is preferable to depending on message text (which is changeable)

if ($onlyifempty) { if ( ! ($content =~ m/class=\"selected new\"/ )) { print "Existing page is not empty. Aborting due to -e.\n"; exit 1; } }


 * 1) Collect input data into string

my $INPUT_DATA;

while (<>) { $INPUT_DATA.=$_; }
 * 1) Read data


 * 1) Post data to Wiki

$response=$browser -> post("http://".$WIKI_PATH."/index.php?title=".$WIKI_PAGE."&action=submit",       @ns_headers,        Content_Type=>'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',Content=>        [ wpTextbox1 => $INPUT_DATA,          wpSummary => "Automated page entry using MWPush.pl",          wpSave => "Save page",          wpSection => "",          wpStarttime => $startTime,          wpEdittime => $editTime,          wpEditToken => $editToken,        ]);


 * 1) Evaluate response from Wiki

if($response->code!=302) { print "Upload failed! Response was:\n"; print $response->as_string; exit 1; } else { print "Uploaded successfully.\n"; }


 * 1) Evaluate operation

print "Everything seems to be OK. Log will be written to mwpush.log.\n"; open(LOG,">mwpush.log") or die "Could not write file.\n"; print LOG $response->as_string; close(LOG);