https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54537

Web browser: --- Bug ID: 54537 Summary: Pagegenerator: follow redirects, intersection, exclusion Product: Pywikibot Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified Mobile Platform: ---

Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/patches/625/ Reported by: andreasjs Created on: 2013-08-24 21:57:56.794000 Subject: Pagegenerator: follow redirects, intersection, exclusion Original description: I added three new arguments:

-followredirects Used with other arguments that specify a set of pages. If a specified page is a redirect page, work on its target page.

-intersecting Argument to be used between two other arguments. Work only on pages normally specified by both the previous and the next argument.

-excluding Argument to be used between two other arguments. Work only on pages normally specified by the previous argument but not by the next argument.

For example, one could want to find the pages edited by a specific user that contain a certain keyword in a title.

A few other suggestions: Exclude sections, even on files. Compare pages via the Page.__cmp__ property to exclude duplicate pages instead of u"%s:%s:%s" % (page._site.family.name, page._site.lang, page._title). (more transparent and easier to maintain).