BotWikiAwk is a framework of tools and libraries for creating and running bots on Wikipedia.
- Bot management tools compatible with bots written in any language
- .. and/or libraries for bots written in awk
- Non-SQL. Data files in plain-text
- Manage batches of articles of any size, 50 for WP:BRFA or 50k to unlimited for production runs
- Runs using GNU parallel making full use of multi-core CPUs
- ..or on the Toolforge grid across 40+ distributed computers
- Dry-run mode, diffs can be checked out before uploading
- Inline colorized diffs on the command-line
- Re-run individual pages via a cached copy of the page (download wikisource once, run bot many)
- Installs in a single directory, easily removed
- Includes complete example bots and skeleton bots
- Includes a general awk library developed over years of writing bots
- Includes a standalone command-line program to interface with the MediaWiki API
- In development and private use since 2016. Public June 2018
Example run a 50k-article bot with three commands:
makebot ~/BotWikiBot/bots/accdate
project -c -p accdate20181102.00001-50000
runbot accdate20181102.00001-50000 auth