For one thing, pywikibot also comes with a collection of applications (such
as replace.py for quickly replacing text across pages, etc.) as well as
helpers (e.g. a series of pagegenerators that make it easy for you to get a
list of pages to work on).
For another, myclient is not as actively maintained and developed as
pywikibot (which itself is maintained by only a very small group of really
interested people). mwclient was last updated in Sep 2021 I think, whereas
pywikibot has updates as of this month.
Simply put: mwclient is just a Python SDK wrapped around MW API, but
pywikibot is an actual framework.
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 9:38 AM Roy Smith <roy(a)panix.com> wrote:
I've been using mwclient for eons. I'm
wondering if it's worth my
switching to pywikibot. What's different/better about pywikibot that would
justify the switch? Is pywikibot a fork of mwclient or a clean start?
I found some comparisons on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code#Python, but most of that
hasn't been updated in years.
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