Create two Site instances and pass in different user= parameters to the constructor.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022, 03:52 Erik Sommer <ersotech@posteo.de> wrote:

Now I don't use two accounts in the same script invocation. But I use a
collection of scripts (self written, not part of pywikibot) and use them
with different bot accounts. How to use different accounts in the same
invocation, that I don't know. Can someone other help, because I see it
similar as masti, this seems not possible anymore after the deprecation
of sysopnames.

Erik

On 07.09.22 13:42, mastigm wrote:
> how You use different configs in the same script?
>
> PYWIKIBOT_DIR points to one config.
>
> It used to be possible to specify normal and admin account in the same
> user-config.py
>
> As I I understand it is not the case anymore.
>
> What I need is a possibility to edit with a normal bot account and,
> for example if the page is empty delete it using bot admin account. Is
> this possible within one config?
>
> PS: yes, I do have 2 bot accounts: one a normal bot and another with
> admin rights
>
> masti
>
>
> On 07.09.2022 08:14, Erik Sommer wrote:
>> Thanks Johnuniq and also xqt for the good hints,
>>
>> at last I found my mistake. I'm operating two bot accounts at the
>> moment. One does all the heavy lifting, but hasn't any sysop rights.
>> The other one is for sysop actions only (was a wish by the community).
>>
>> The solution provided by piwikibot is to use the env
>> variable PYWIKIBOT_DIR. I did that to point to the alternative
>> user-config. But I made a mistake and I kid you not: A leading
>> whitespace infront of the variable :facepalm: ... therefor the
>> framework fall back to the normal pywikibot config path and loaded
>> the config of the non-sysop bot :-(.
>>
>> Thanks to all for the help
>>
>> Cheers Erik
>>
>> On 06.09.22 11:38, Johnuniq wrote:
>>> I upgraded all my pip modules yesterday, including pywikibot. Your
>>> line numbers are 18 lines different from mine in _pages.py so you
>>> might upgrade although that is unlikely to help.
>>>
>>> Browsing around the source shows that @need_right('protect') is in
>>> site/_apisite.py and is responsible for the message: 'User "None" does
>>> not have required user right "protect"'.
>>>
>>> site/_basesite.py returns None if self.logged_in() tests as false. My
>>> guess is that you are not logged in and it looks like it would be easy
>>> to stuff up Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration. I would try manually
>>> entering lines of code into python to mimic a simple bot start-up,
>>> then see if site.user() shows the bot name.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 4:04 PM Erik Sommer <ersotech@posteo.de> wrote:
>>>> This experiment was the initial reason for my post. I have one bot
>>>> configured and I tried to protect some pages. This is stack trace from
>>>> this experiment:
>>>>
>>>>     File "/home/esommer/workspace/WS_THEbotIT/service/protect.py",
>>>> line
>>>> 47, in task
>>>>       lemma.protect(reason="Schutz fertiger Seiten",
>>>>     File
>>>> "/home/esommer/workspace/WS_THEbotIT/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pywikibot/page/_pages.py",
>>>>
>>>> line 1998, in protect
>>>>       self.site.protect(self, protections, reason, **kwargs)
>>>>     File
>>>> "/home/esommer/workspace/WS_THEbotIT/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pywikibot/site/_decorators.py",
>>>>
>>>> line 89, in callee
>>>>       raise UserRightsError('User "{}" does not have required '
>>>> pywikibot.exceptions.UserRightsError: User "None" does not have
>>>> required
>>>> user right "protect"
>>>>
>>>> The User "None" seems concerning. Is there a chance I screwed up the
>>>> scopes when I generated the OAuth token at
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose/oauth2?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers Erik
>>>>
>>>> On 06.09.22 07:42, Johnuniq wrote:
>>>>> I don't know but many years ago I ran an admin bot on a non-WMF wiki.
>>>>> A separate sysopnames variable was used to specify a user with admin
>>>>> credentials. Sysopnames was removed from pywikibot and whereas I've
>>>>> never used it, the theory is that now you have only a single bot user
>>>>> as defined in usernames. Pywikibot uses that user for normal actions
>>>>> and for admin actions. If admin privilege is needed, I think it first
>>>>> checks if the user has the required privilege. Some info on what I'm
>>>>> saying is at
>>>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org/msg00712.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So if you had
>>>>> usernames['wikisource']['de'] = 'Example'
>>>>>
>>>>> where Example has the bot and sysop flags, it should work. Try a
>>>>> simple script to delete a junk user subpage and report what
>>>>> happens. I
>>>>> don't know if it's possible with MediaWiki, but it's conceivable that
>>>>> pywikibot does not give itself admin credentials unless required
>>>>> (which might explain your debug results).
>>>>>
>>>>> Johnuniq
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 3:43 AM Erik Sommer <ersotech@posteo.de>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> No worries,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do software dev for a living. It's all local and no one is
>>>>>> checking in credentials. But that wasn't really the question here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 05.09.22 17:21, Roy Smith wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm a total newbie at pywikibot, but let me address the general
>>>>>> issue of putting credentials in config files.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Be very wary of how you store credentials. You should make sure
>>>>>> they're in a file which is read-protected, and not in source
>>>>>> control. Otherwise the entire world will have access to your
>>>>>> secret credentials.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sep 5, 2022, at 10:14 AM, Erik Sommer <ersotech@posteo.de> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi list,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I operate currently a bot on the German Wikisource. The bot was
>>>>>> granted both groups, admin and bot. It is intended to be used as
>>>>>> automated protection bot. I'm having trouble to put the right
>>>>>> credentials in my user-config.py.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is currently coded like following pseudo-code:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>>>>>>
>>>>>> family = 'wikisource'
>>>>>> mylang = 'de'
>>>>>> usernames['wikisource']['de'] = '******'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> authenticate['de.wikisource.org'] = (....*****.....)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the problem with this is that the framework only detect my bot as
>>>>>> bot not as sysadmin. Groups taken from the debugging output:
>>>>>> ['bot', '*', 'user', 'autoconfirmed']
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What do I have to add to my config, that the bot also get picket
>>>>>> up as sysadmin? I already read
>>>>>> (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/user-config.py)
>>>>>> but doesn't make sense for me. It will not change anything if add
>>>>>> the botname a second time to the usernames dictionary.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best Regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Erik Sommer
>>>>>>
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