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mwclient

mwclient is a lightweight Python client library to the MediaWiki API which provides access to most API functionality. It works with Python 2.7, 3.3 and above, and supports MediaWiki 1.16 and above. For functions not available in the current MediaWiki, a MediaWikiVersionError is raised.

The current stable version 0.8.1 was released on 5 February 2016, and is available through PyPI:

$ pip install mwclient

The current development version can be installed from GitHub:

$ pip install git+git://github.com/mwclient/mwclient.git

Please see the release notes for a list of changes.

Getting started

See the user guide to get started using mwclient.

For more information, see the REFERENCE.md file and the documentation on the wiki.