README.rst

mwclient

mwclient is a Python client to the MediaWiki API which provides access to most API functionality. It depends heavily on Bob Ippolito's SimpleJSON, requires Python 2.4 and supports MediaWiki 1.11 and above. For functions not available in the current MediaWiki, a MediaWikiVersionError is raised.

This framework was written by Bryan Tong Minh, who released the latest stable version 0.6.5 on 6 May 2011. Version 0.6.5 is also available through PyPI:

$ pip install mwclient

The current development version can be installed directly off github:

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

Please see the release notes for a list of changes.

Implementation notes

Most properties and generators accept the same parameters as the API, without their two-letter prefix. Exceptions to this rule: