Admin Forum:Trouble with pywikipediabot

I've been using my bot YodaBot on both the PathfinderWiki and Oscars Wiki for several years. Recently, however, I got a new computer and just set up the bot on the new machine. I've followed the instructions in this extremely helpful blog post and managed to get everything set up (I think). It lets me log in and a "login.py -test" command line confirms that. But when I try to edit, I get errors that I don't have a token and won't be able to edit pages. Can anyone offer any assistance in this? Without the ability to use the bot, categorizing images is going to make for some really, really tedious editing in the future. — yoda8myhead (talk) 08:21, December 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Try setting it back up from scratch if you haven't already. Do you have the most up-to-date version of Python installed? (2.7.3) --Callofduty4 (talk) 09:27, December 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Could you provide a few more details, please?
 * OS (and version number)
 * Python version number
 * Pywikipedia version number
 * Whether you have access to the known working pywikipedia folder on your old computer
 * Whether you're sure you're using the right family.py file for the wiki you're trying to edit
 * Whether you're absolutely sure that your account is bot-flagged on the wiki you're trying to edit


 * Having recently upgraded my own computer recently, I'd say that your initial approach would be to just copy your old, working pywikipedia folder over to your new computer, change its permissions (depending on OS) so that the current account can access the files within that folder, and there ya go.


 * But, as I said, I don't really know enough details about your situation to really diagnose. 19:16: Wed 12 Dec 2012