https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54548 Web browser: --- Bug ID: 54548 Summary: _getUserDataOld call from low-level getUrl Product: Pywikibot Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs(a)lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com Classification: Unclassified Mobile Platform: --- Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/patches/608/ Reported by: valhallasw Created on: 2013-04-13 20:51:59 Subject: _getUserDataOld call from low-level getUrl Original description: From http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikipedia-l/2012-October/007585.html : I just wanted to put\(\) a simple page on a MediaWiki 1.16 instance, where I have to use screen scraping \(use\_api=False\). There is something strange however: There is an API call invoked by \_getBlocked: /w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo Here's my backtrace: File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 693, in get expandtemplates = expandtemplates\) File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 743, in \_getEditPage return self.\_getEditPageOld\(get\_redirect, throttle, sysop, oldid, change\_edit\_time\) File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 854, in \_getEditPageOld text = self.site\(\).getUrl\(path, sysop = sysop\) File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 5881, in getUrl self.\_getUserDataOld\(text, sysop = sysop\) File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 6016, in \_getUserDataOld blocked = self.\_getBlock\(sysop = sysop\) File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 5424, in \_getBlock data = query.GetData\(params, self\) File "pywikipedia/query.py", line 146, in GetData jsontext = site.getUrl\( path, retry=True, sysop=sysop, data=data\) getUrl\(\), which is also called from API, seems always to call \_getUserDataOld\(text\) where text is ... API output so it tries to do strange things on that and gives warnings like Note: this language does not allow global bots. WARNING: Token not found on wikipedia:pl. You will not be able to edit any page. which is nonsense since the analyzed text is not HTML - only API output. If getUrl\(\) is supposed to be a low-level call, why call \_getUserDataOld\(\) there? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/7461 has introduced this call there. It's easily reproducable by this: import wikipedia import config config.use\_api = False wikipedia.verbose = True s = wikipedia.getSite\("pl", "wikipedia"\) p = wikipedia.Page\(s, u"User:Saper"\) c = p.get\(\) c += "<\!-- test -->" p.put\(c, u"Testing wiki", botflag=False\) //Saper -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.