The Java Wiki Bot Framework is a library to retrieve data from and maintain MediaWiki-based wikis such as Wikipedia. It has packages that handle basic tasks (login, cookies, encoding, token management) so that you can write your wiki bot without being a MediaWiki API expert. JWBF requires JRE 1.7.
/**
* Sample bot that retrieves and edits an article.
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
MediaWikiBot wikiBot = new MediaWikiBot("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/");
Article article = wikiBot.getArticle("42");
System.out.println(article.getText().substring(5, 42));
// HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY FANS
applyChangesTo(article);
wikiBot.login("user", "***");
article.save();
}
static void applyChangesTo(Article article) {
// edits the article...
}Code sample | Developer resources | Getting started | Dependencies | Working with Wikimedia | More resources
- Repositories
- RELEASES: Maven Central
- SNAPSHOTS: oss.sonatype.org
- JavaDocs: @sf.net (Version specific docs are located at Maven Central)
- Home Page: @sf.net
JWBF uses Maven to automatically resolve dependencies. To use Maven to start a new project, follow the Maven in Five Minutes tutorial. For a more detailed introduction, see Maven's Getting Started guide.
The Java Wiki Bot Framework is available from two repositories. For a more stable version of JWBF, use the most recent version in the RELEASES repository at Maven Central. For the development version, which will be most up-to-date, use the most recent version in the SNAPSHOTS repository at oss.sonatype.org.
Once you have started your project in Maven and have a pom.xml file for your
bot's project, add the appropriate JWBF dependency to the <dependencies>
section. When you build your project, JWBF and its own dependencies will be
downloaded automatically.
Beginning with jwbf 4.x.x Java 8 is required
From RELEASES:
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sourceforge</groupId>
<artifactId>jwbf</artifactId>
<version>3.1.1</version>
</dependency>If you want to use a different release of JWBF, find your desired version in
RELEASES
and change <version> to its listed title.
From SNAPSHOTS:
Add this to your <repositories> section:
<repository>
<id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
<name>Sonatype Nexus Snapshots</name>
<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>Add this to your <dependencies> section:
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sourceforge</groupId>
<artifactId>jwbf</artifactId>
<version>4.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>If you want to use a different snapshot of JWBF, find your desired version in
SNAPSHOTS
and change <version> to its listed title.
Here is one example of using JWBF to write a bot that can retrieve and edit an article on a desired wiki.
More Java examples (e.g. for queries) can be found at unit- and integration-test packages.
If you are working with Wikimedia sites, set an informative User-Agent header, because all Wikimedia sites require a HTTP User-Agent header for all requests.
//Creating a new MediaWikiBot with an informative user agent
HttpActionClient client = HttpActionClient.builder() //
.withUrl("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/") //
.withUserAgent("BotName", "1.0", "your Email or Maintainer UserName") //
.withRequestsPerUnit(10, TimeUnit.MINUTES) //
.build();
MediaWikiBot wikiBot = new MediaWikiBot(client);