https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55143
Web browser: --- Bug ID: 55143 Summary: urls ending on a ) incorrectly parsed Product: Pywikibot Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: ASSIGNED Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: weblinkchecker.py Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified Mobile Platform: ---
Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1616/ Reported by: harmenhuizinga Created on: 2013-04-14 09:25:39 Subject: urls ending on a ) incorrectly parsed Assigned to: amird Original description: $ python version.pyPywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r11368, 2013/04/13, 08:16:45, ok) Python 2.7.3 (v2.7.3:70274d53c1dd, Apr 9 2012, 20:52:43) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok
Weblinks with an ) at the end of the url are handled incorrect by weblinkchecker. That means that the ) is stripped from the url. See example:
$ python weblinkchecker.py -lang:nl -page:Gebruiker:Smile4ever/test Getting 1 page from wikipedia:nl... Waiting for remaining 1 threads to finish, please wait... *[[Gebruiker:Smile4ever/test]] links to http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koe%5C_%5C(rund - 404 Not Found. Saving history...