Reading: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot/imageharvest.py

Note: the real site name I am using is is replaced in the examples. The site that I am using is accessible at the URL I am using and the images are available to the public (no login required)

[root@mustang pywikipedia]# python imageharvest.py *-URL:* http://www.example.org/wiki/

Using the "-URL:" prefix generates a "IOError: [Errno url error] unknown url type: '-url'" error.

Omitting the "-URL:" prefix allows the process to start, but adds a redundant */wiki/* to the URL:

[root@mustang pywikipedia]# python imageharvest.py http://www.example.org/wiki/ What text should be added at the end of the description of each image from this url? example.org Include image http://www.example.org/wiki/*/wiki/i*mage:router.gif? ([y]es, [N]o, [s]top) y Give the description of this image: Router Reading file http://www.example.org/wiki/*/wiki/*image:router.gif Couldn't download the image: the requested URL was not found on this server. Include image http://www.example.org/wiki/*/wiki/*image:topology.gif? ([y]es, [N]o, [s]top) s [root@mustang pywikipedia]#

Omitting the /wiki/ in the URL allows the process to start, but it stops right after the description is entered:

[root@mustang pywikipedia]# python imageharvest.py -v http://www.example.org/ Pywikipediabot [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r7294, 2009/09/24, 12:37:35) Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Jun 8 2009, 16:07:26) [GCC 4.4.0 20090506 (Red Hat 4.4.0-4)] What text should be added at the end of the description of each image from this url? example.org [root@mustang pywikipedia]#

---Robert