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Manual:Pywikibot/Compat/query.py

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query.py is a library for pywikibot compat branch used by several scripts

Methods

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Method Params Description
GetData lang
params
verbose = False
Get data from the query api, and convert it into a data object
GetInterwikies lang
titles
extraParams = None
Uses GetData to fetch "redirects" and "langlinks" for the given titles.
GetLinks lang
titles
extraParams = None
Uses GetData to fetch "redirects" and "links" for the given titles.
GetDisambigTemplates lang This method will return a set of disambiguation templates. is always assumed to be default, and will be appended (in localized format) regardless of its existence. The rest will be acquired from the Wikipedia:Disambiguation Templates page.(Note: this page was deleted in August 2006) Only links to templates will be used from that page.
Helper Utilities
CleanParams params Params may be either a tuple, a list of tuples or a dictionary. This method will convert it into a dictionary
CombineParams params1
params2
Merge two dictionaries. If they have the same keys, their values will be appended one after another separated by the '|' symbol.
ConvToList item Ensure the output is a list
ListToParam list Convert a list of unicode strings into a UTF8 string separated by the '|' symbols
ToUtf8 s Convert s to Unicode
IsString s Boolean test