Go the login issues resolved thanks to Nicolas. However, the only script that works is login.py The others fails with this error: Error downloading data: No JSON object could be decoded Request en:/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo Retrying in 1 minutes... test.py [root@mustang pywikipedia]# python test.py Error downloading data: No JSON object could be decoded Request en:/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo category.py [root@mustang pywikipedia]# python category.py listify Reading dump from category.dump.bz2 Please enter the name of the category to listify: Bot_Tests Please enter the name of the list to create: test Getting [[Category:Bot Tests]]... Error downloading data: No JSON object could be decoded Request en:/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo I did some searching and found references to a PHP file named JSON.php that I do not have on my system. I found several other postings with the same error message, but no resolutions. As always, any help would be much appreciated. ---Robert