Hi Matthias,
On 27 February 2013 12:20, Matthias Schlögl <m.schloegl(a)me.com> wrote:
I try to edit pages in a private wiki with
pywikipedia. the wiki is password protected, so you cant even look at a page without
logging in. While the login is working normal, I get an error that I dont have access to
the api as soon as I try to actually do anything:
RuntimeError: {u'info': u'You need read permission to use this module',
u'code': u'readapidenied'}
{u'info': u'You need read permission to use this module',
u'code': u'readapidenied'}
The user account of the bot is active and the bot user group should have access to the
api.
Does anybody have an idea how I can solve this problem?
Sorry for the late response. I can think of three things that could cause this.
First of all, the bot might be trying to read the page without being
logged in. This should *not* happen if you have logged in explicitly
using login.py, though. You could try to force a re-login (python
login.py -force , or remove the cookies file for rewrite) to see if
that happens. You could also run the bot script with -v -v ('doubly
verbose') to see the API queries being sent. A network sniffer would
also help, but I'm not sure how easy that would be to do for you :-)
Secondly, maybe the bot user *doesn't* actually have read rights via
the API. I'm not completely sure how to check this in a simple way,
and it doesn't sound very plausible to me either ;-)
Thirdly, there may very well be a bug in the framework. Unfortunately,
most of us don't use the bot on a local closed wiki, so it doesn't get
quite the same amount of testing.
Best,
Merlijn