https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55141
--- Comment #2 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com --- You did it in a very bad way you simply must use: page = pywikibot.Page(site, "Wikipedia:Unchi Bassi") data = pywikibot.DataPage(page) data.get()