MediaWiki/tools/mwpush.pl

From MattWiki

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 upload.pl by Eloquence, adapted for page editing. This page is listed at Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools#mwpush .

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 Wikipedia: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, www.wikipedia.org or intranethostname/mediawiki). 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) 

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

# call requirements
use Getopt::Std;
use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Response;
use HTTP::Cookies;
#use warnings;

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

if ($opt_h) { die "Usage: mwpush.pl -w <wiki host/path> -t <wiki page name> -l <wiki login> -p <wiki password> [-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;

### Login to wiki

# Set up connection data
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',
);

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

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

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

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

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;
}



### Get a wpEditToken

# We need to load our target page first in edit mode to capture a
# 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;

# Get EditToken
# Note: wpEditToken can contain "+" and "\"
($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\"/ );

# Determine page existence state
# If we find "selected new" (a CSS class set), it is a new (empty) page
# 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;
  }
}


### Collect input data into string

my $INPUT_DATA;

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


### 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,
        ]);


### 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";
  }               

# 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);
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