Forum:Using a bot to correct urls?

Hiya, over on runescape wikia, we'd like to run a bot that goes around and fixes some URLs to an external site. We quite often reference the runescape knowledge base site, but they've changed all their URLs from

http://kbase.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/viewarticle.ws?article_id=2745 to http://www.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/kbase/viewarticle.ws?article_id=2745

Kind of them to redirect automatically wasn't it, sheesh. So a friend has a bot ready to run round and fix all the entries on the wiki automatically.


 * 1) Does this bot need sysop priveleges - We don't have only one or two "sysop" protected pages (and these are mostly redirects or deleted pages).
 * 2) Do I (as the resident bureaucrat) need to somehow flag the account as a bot?

Cheers --Eucarya Talk 13:37, 27 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I've tried using this script to set the user as a bot, but it doesn't appear to work. --Eucarya Talk 16:46, 27 April 2007 (UTC)


 * You need to request that one of the Staff add a bot flag to the user account. It allows the bot to bypass the normal user limitations which restrict a bot's ability to function repeatedly and quickly. That url dosen't do anything about making a bot, what it does is make it so that when you hit the rollback button, instead of a rollback being added to the recentchanges, the rollback action and the original edits are hidden from the recent changes to make it appear as if it didn't happen (Though the history still shows those actions). Normally the bot and sysop flags are not given to a bot at the same time. Although using the pywikipediabot framework you can set 2 accounts, one with sysop privileges, the Sysop flag also removes some of the limitations, so while the edits won't be hidden running an account with a bot flag, and another with a sysop flag is very usefull. I do that for all the bots on my wiki. GaiaBot/GaiaBotSys, AnimeBot/AnimeBotSys. Though I also do have Dantmanbot, but that's a non-bot, non-sysop I use to copy my userpage to here. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Apr 27, 2007 @ 17:02 (UTC)


 * The bot seems to be working okay to me. -- 18:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)