Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-33046846-20170127214656/@comment-24155515-20170128201156

What kind of tasks are you planning to have your bot do, and what are you planning to use to run the bot? I run my bot via AutoWikiBrowser because it's easier (since I don't know enough about python for Pywikibot). You don't need to make the AWB checkpage if you don't want to restrict AWB use on your wiki (the wiki my bot is on (Wreck-It Ralph Wiki) doesn't have the page; my bot is completely capable of editing via AWB but so is everyone else (but no one else seems to do so--they just still have the option).

I'm pretty sure Pywikibot is "more automatic" than AWB; I think there are bots that can find pages on their own, but a bot running from AWB only edits pages from a compiled list. AWB is easy once you learn the basics, but its edits are better described as semi-automated than fully automated.