Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4189499-20150723132433

Hi there. I run a core PyWikiBot, Imamadbot, on several wikis, but I went to use it just then and got error messages I'd never had before. Specifically: $ python pwb.py replace -ns:0 "(\|\s*eplink\s*=[^\|\n]*)" "\1 " -regex -family:ccsw which is supposed to work on w:c:candycrush, gets the result WARNING: Http response status 301 WARNING: Non-JSON response received from server ccsw:en; the server may be down. WARNING: Waiting 5 seconds before retrying. Which then repeats every few seconds with a longer wait time. I then tried to run a similar script on my test wiki, w:c:Imamadmad, to see if it was wiki-dependant, specifically: $ python pwb.py replace -ns:0 '(Candy Factory)' '\1 ' -regex -family:ImamadmadTest but that failed in a different way, first prompting for an edit summary (as it should) but then displaying the help information once the standard summary is accepted. Fearing that this may be caused by problems with the commands I was running, I tried some that had previously worked a few months back, which I copied to here back then. That just gets the response: -bash: !: event not found Note that this was the exact same things I was copying into the command line only a few months back, and it worked perfectly back then.

I checked the files on my computer to make sure that none of the PyWikiBot scripts had been accidentally modified, but I could tell from the last edited date that they hadn't been. I'm at a loss to explain what went wrong. Even if the commands I was writing and sending tonight didn't work, the one copied from DWA should work perfectly.

I'm using a Windows 8.1 computer but running my bot via Cygwin which allows a Unix-like command line environment. Is anyone else having any issues with their bots, or know of any changes Wikia has made recently that would interrupt the PyWikiBot scripts? Thanks! 