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This is where you will put your custom family file.
This is where you will put your custom family file. Here's what the custom family file looks like:
 
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from pywikibot import family
 
class Family(family.Family):
    def __init__(self):
        family.Family.__init__(self)
        self.name = 'charlesreid1'
        self.langs = {
            'en': 'charlesreid1.com',
        }
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Copy and paste this into <code>pwb/pywikibot/families/charlesreid1_family.py</code> (where pwb is the name of the directory where you checked out the git repository).
 
Now you should be able to log into the wiki as your bot:
 
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$ python pwb.py login
Password for user Bleep bloop on charlesreid1:en (no characters will be shown):
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Revision as of 02:56, 16 April 2017

Setting this up is confusing as hell, mainly because the documentation sucks.

Code for pywikibot on Github: https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/

Start by checking it out:

$ git clone https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/ pwb
$ cd pwb

Install all the pip stuff that you may need:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Update git submodules:

$ git submodule update --init

Add a custom family file to the big directory of family files:

$ ls pywikibot/families
...
wikivoyage_family.py
wiktionary_family.py
wowwiki_family.py

This is where you will put your custom family file. Here's what the custom family file looks like:

from pywikibot import family

class Family(family.Family):
    def __init__(self):
        family.Family.__init__(self)
        self.name = 'charlesreid1'
        self.langs = {
            'en': 'charlesreid1.com',
        }

Copy and paste this into pwb/pywikibot/families/charlesreid1_family.py (where pwb is the name of the directory where you checked out the git repository).

Now you should be able to log into the wiki as your bot:

$ python pwb.py login
Password for user Bleep bloop on charlesreid1:en (no characters will be shown):