Manual:Pywikibot/Compat/query.py
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query.py is a library for pywikibot compat branch used by several scripts
Methods
| 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. Template:Disambig 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 |
