https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73529

Bug ID: 73529 Summary: expand_text fails for empty page Product: Pywikibot Version: core (2.0) Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: jayvdb@gmail.com Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: ---

API action expandtemplates requires a value for the text param

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=expandtemplates&text=

{ "servedby": "mw1032", "error": { "code": "notext", "info": "The text parameter must be set", "*": "See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage" } }

This causes a failure running the tests on wikia

page_tests.TestPageObject.testLinks

Traceback (most recent call last): File "./tests/page_tests.py", line 461, in testLinks iw = list(mainpage.interwiki(expand=True)) File "./pywikibot/page.py", line 1150, in interwiki text = self.expand_text() File "./pywikibot/tools.py", line 647, in wrapper return obj(*__args, **__kw) File "./pywikibot/page.py", line 499, in expand_text includecomments=includecomments) File "./pywikibot/site.py", line 992, in callee return fn(self, *args, **kwargs) File "./pywikibot/site.py", line 1958, in expand_text return req.submit()['expandtemplates'][key] File "./pywikibot/data/api.py", line 1213, in submit self._data = super(CachedRequest, self).submit() File "./pywikibot/data/api.py", line 1071, in submit raise APIError(code, info, **result["error"]) pywikibot.data.api.APIError: notext: The text parameter must be set

This happens because the Wikia homepage is an empty page

http://www.wikia.com/Wikia?action=edit http://www.wikia.com/api.php?format=jsonfm&action=query&titles=Wikia...