Bugs item #3453028, was opened at 2011-12-06 16:52 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by valhallasw You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=3453028...

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Daniel Barrett (djbarrett) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Error downloading data: No JSON object could be decoded

Initial Comment: replace.py produces the following error message in the middle of large search-and-replace operations.

Error downloading data: No JSON object could be decoded: line 1 column 0 (char 0) Request en:/w/api.php? Retrying in 1 minutes...

1 minute later, it fails again and retries in 2 minutes, then 4 minutes, etc.

The command was:

$ python replace.py -regex -nocase -start:! '\\(example.net|exampleus)\common\softlib' '\example.net\global\softlib'

and when prompted for a replacement, I typed "a" for "All". After doing a bunch of replacements, the error started happening. This is with MediaWiki 1.17.1.

$ sudo python version.py Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r9787, 2011/12/06, 07:41:04) Python 2.4.3 (#1, May 5 2011, 16:39:10) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50)] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok

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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw)

Date: 2012-02-01 12:30

Message: Could you re-run the script with -v? This should output the queries used, and might give relevant information.

On a side note, why are you running pwb (or at least version.py) as root? There is no reason to do that, and it's dangerous.

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Comment By: Daniel Barrett (djbarrett) Date: 2012-02-01 11:24

Message: I am also getting this bug from category.py in -r9851

$ python category.py move -from:"US Payment Processor" -to:"US Payment Processor project" -pt:0

Happens for some articles not others.

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