I try to edit pages in a private wiki with pywikipedia. the wiki is password protected, so you cant even look at a page without logging in. While the login is working normal, I get an error that I dont have access to the api as soon as I try to actually do anything: RuntimeError: {u'info': u'You need read permission to use this module', u'code': u'readapidenied'} {u'info': u'You need read permission to use this module', u'code': u'readapidenied'} The user account of the bot is active and the bot user group should have access to the api. Does anybody have an idea how I can solve this problem? Thank you very much!
Hi Matthias,
On 27 February 2013 12:20, Matthias Schlögl m.schloegl@me.com wrote:
I try to edit pages in a private wiki with pywikipedia. the wiki is password protected, so you cant even look at a page without logging in. While the login is working normal, I get an error that I dont have access to the api as soon as I try to actually do anything: RuntimeError: {u'info': u'You need read permission to use this module', u'code': u'readapidenied'} {u'info': u'You need read permission to use this module', u'code': u'readapidenied'} The user account of the bot is active and the bot user group should have access to the api. Does anybody have an idea how I can solve this problem?
Sorry for the late response. I can think of three things that could cause this.
First of all, the bot might be trying to read the page without being logged in. This should *not* happen if you have logged in explicitly using login.py, though. You could try to force a re-login (python login.py -force , or remove the cookies file for rewrite) to see if that happens. You could also run the bot script with -v -v ('doubly verbose') to see the API queries being sent. A network sniffer would also help, but I'm not sure how easy that would be to do for you :-)
Secondly, maybe the bot user *doesn't* actually have read rights via the API. I'm not completely sure how to check this in a simple way, and it doesn't sound very plausible to me either ;-)
Thirdly, there may very well be a bug in the framework. Unfortunately, most of us don't use the bot on a local closed wiki, so it doesn't get quite the same amount of testing.
Best, Merlijn
Thank you very much for your answer. The bot user has writing privileges. Actually the bot worked fine when we made the wiki public for a while. I didn't try the login -force thing yet....let you know if it worked.
Thank you,
Matthias
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Am 13.04.2013 um 21:18 schrieb Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nl:
Hi Matthias,
On 27 February 2013 12:20, Matthias Schlögl m.schloegl@me.com wrote:
I try to edit pages in a private wiki with pywikipedia. the wiki is password protected, so you cant even look at a page without logging in. While the login is working normal, I get an error that I dont have access to the api as soon as I try to actually do anything: RuntimeError: {u'info': u'You need read permission to use this module', u'code': u'readapidenied'} {u'info': u'You need read permission to use this module', u'code': u'readapidenied'} The user account of the bot is active and the bot user group should have access to the api. Does anybody have an idea how I can solve this problem?
Sorry for the late response. I can think of three things that could cause this.
First of all, the bot might be trying to read the page without being logged in. This should *not* happen if you have logged in explicitly using login.py, though. You could try to force a re-login (python login.py -force , or remove the cookies file for rewrite) to see if that happens. You could also run the bot script with -v -v ('doubly verbose') to see the API queries being sent. A network sniffer would also help, but I'm not sure how easy that would be to do for you :-)
Secondly, maybe the bot user *doesn't* actually have read rights via the API. I'm not completely sure how to check this in a simple way, and it doesn't sound very plausible to me either ;-)
Thirdly, there may very well be a bug in the framework. Unfortunately, most of us don't use the bot on a local closed wiki, so it doesn't get quite the same amount of testing.
Best, Merlijn
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