Commons transfer script - Wikitech-l

12 Feb 2005


      What follows is the script asked for on [1]. Well, mostly. As this is my 
very first Python script that actually performs a useful function, I 
couldn't get it to work as a logged-in user. Maybe someone else has 
better luck. I'm too tired now.
Magnus
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Transfer_script
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import httplib
import urllib
import md5
class AppURLopener(urllib.FancyURLopener):
     def __init__(self, *args):
         self.version = "Mozilla/4.0"
         urllib.FancyURLopener.__init__(self, *args)
def imagetocommons ( language , imagenamespace , image ) :
     server = 'http://' + language + '.wikipedia.org'
     url = server + '/wiki/' + imagenamespace + ':' + image ;
     srcurl = server + '/w/wiki.phtml?title=' + imagenamespace + ':' + 
image + '&action=raw' ;
# Loading image description into source
     urllib._urlopener = AppURLopener()
     sock = urllib.urlopen ( srcurl ) ;
     source = sock.read()
     sock.close()
# Loading the image
     md = md5.md5(image).hexdigest()
     imageurl = 'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/' + language + 
'/' + md[:1] + '/'+ md[:2] + '/' + image ;
     localimage = image ; # For now...
     x = urllib.urlretrieve ( imageurl , localimage )
     localimage = x[0]
# POST command
     uploadurl = 'http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload'
     params = urllib.urlencode({'wpUploadFile': localimage, 
'wpUploadDescription': 'Via script from ' + language , 'wpUploadAffirm': 
1, 'wpUpload':1})
     postit = urllib.urlopen ( uploadurl , params )
     print postit.read()
     postit.close()
imagetocommons ( "en" , "Image" , "GlassofGuinness.jpg" ) # Testing...