Bot approval is needed for any task that's going to be editing at high speeds or is (semi-)automated, which yours was. You can just request approval for "adding claims based off of Wikipedia infoboxes" and say you're going to start with films, and that will be good enough, so you won't need to request approval again.

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On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Michael Hale <hale.michael.jr@live.com> wrote:
Oh, I thought bot approval was just for tasks that have an indefinite running time like cleaning vandalism, etc. I added a user-agent string to identify my IP address, but I hadn't run into problems on Wikipedia without one before. Am I supposed to re-apply each time I change a script?

From: legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 00:21:44 -0500
To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Running "Infobox film" import script


Hi Michael,
I had blocked your IP before I saw this email. We have a bot policy (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot) that requires coders to get approval before they can run their scripts (see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot).

Your script did look pretty cool though :)



On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Michael Hale <hale.michael.jr@live.com> wrote:
Here's the contributions from my IP address if you want to monitor it: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/108.235.225.145

From: hale.michael.jr@live.com
To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 00:58:05 -0400
Subject: [Wikidata-l] Running "Infobox film" import script


I've been practicing using the Wikidata and MediaWiki APIs today. Even though the Wikidata API is still being developed, using it was more pleasant than parsing the templates. The good news is I'll probably be able to reuse a lot of that code for other infoboxes that still need to be imported. It's looking through 76000 articles for new statements it can add using Wikidata's currently supported film properties, excluding the IMDb ID because that isn't included in the infobox. So far it has added 691 new statements to 68 movies. I forgot to add a counter for when it finds one that already had all of the information entered. It will definitely have some errors, but I scanned the results for the first 100 movies before I started importing them, and I think the value-add will be much greater than the number of errors.

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