Pywikibot includes basic support for SQL queries on MySQL-like database or replica.
To make Pywikibot work with SQL-based database or its replica, make sure you have pymysql library installed. Probably you already installed it when installing Pywikibot. Otherwise, run:
Second you should update the DATABASE SETTINGS section in your user-config.py file:
db_hostname_format localhost IP address or host {0}.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud[1] db_port identical to the server port in my.cnf file (default: 3306) db_name_format identical to database name (default: {0})[1] {0}_p[1] db_connect_file path to the my.cnf file (default: /etc/mysql/my.cnf or ~/.my.cnf) ~/replica.my.cnf db_username the credentials to connect to the database, if no db_connect_file provided Do not use db_password
The database also have to be ready and have to contain corresponding set-up and structure.
On Toolforge everything should be up and running with credentials specified in the tool's replica.my.cnf, see wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Database.
If you want to run your local instance (e.g. a copy loaded from Wikimedia dump), follow the following steps:
For Wikimedia dump first download your chosen SQL dump from: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html.
Second install and configure mariadb or other preferred MySQL-like database on your local machine. Follow your OS distribution manual (e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MySQL).
Once ready, start MySQL terminal/command line interface:
$ mysql -u yourusename -p
and create new database using the database name chosen before:
> create database yourdbname;
In case of Wikimedia dump finally you have everything prepared for the final step: importing the downloaded sql table dump to your prepared local database:
> quit $ mysql -u yourusername yourdbname < /path/to/sql/dump/file/xywiki-20180601-sometable.sql
or you can declare your own database containing page namespace, page title and some additional rows of your choice:
> create table yourtable (page datatype, namespace datatype, ...) > set yourtable.page = somepage > set yourtable.namespace = somens > quitTerminal/command line[edit]
If the desired script supports pagegenerators.py , you can run your script with -mysqlquery:'query' generator. You will be prompted for the query if no query specified. The query should return two columns, page namespace and page title pairs from some table, e.g.:
$ python pwb.py some_script -mysqlquery:'select page_namespace, page_title from page where ...;'Inside your script[edit]
If your script does not support page generators yet, you can import MySQLPageGenerator from pagegenerators.py:
from pywikibot import pagegenerators
Bot.__init__(generator=pagegenerators.MySQLPageGenerator('select page_namespace, page_title from page where ...', site=self.site))
But you can also get other information from database using pywikibot.data.mysql library:
from pywikibot.data import mysql
some_value = mysql.mysql_query('select page_id from page where ...')
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