mwpy 0.3

Installation

mwpy development is done using Python 3.8 (because of the nice new async features of it) but theoretically the library should be Python 3.6+ compatible. Hopefully there will be more solid support for 3.6+ as soon as unittest and mock backports become available.

pip install mwpy

Notable features

• Supports setting a custom User-Agent header for each API instance.

• Handles query continuations.

• Handles batchcomplete signals for prop queries and yeilds the results as soon as a batch is complete.

• Configurable maxlag. Waits as the API recommends and then retries.

• Some convenient methods for accessing common API calls, e.g. for recentchanges, login, and siteinfo.

• Lightweight. mwpy is a thin wrapper. Method signatures are very similar to the parameters in an actual API URL. You can consult MediaWiki’s documentation if in doubt about what a parameter does.