Help talk:Bots

Where to get a Bot?
It'd be nice if it would also have some links on where/how to get a decent working bot code. --Light Daxter 19:25, October 2, 2009 (UTC)


 * There are two main bots for use on wikis - AutoWikiBrowser and pywikipediabot. AWB is probably the easiest to work with. Beware compatibility issues though. Kirkburn (talk) 15:15, October 5, 2009 (UTC)

Read-only bots
Does a bot that only downloads many pages at once need a bot flag? --WGH, 22:28, October 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * No. But the bot flag makes this a bit more efficient (e.g. normal user can get 500 pages per each request via API, with 'bot' flag it can get 5000). 23:23, October 30, 2010 (UTC)

Limited editing rate?
The page says that a bot should use a limited editing rate, which is perfectly fine. However, the word limited is very subjective. What would be the limit, in terms of edit per minute, or request per minute? Right now i'm working with 60 requests per minute (1 per second) but I was wondering if I could speed up the process, or if it was still too heavy.

Basically, the bot fetches all the pages from a category and its sub-categories, builds a list, and update the list if data has been updated. The bot runs once a day at midnight (EST) (I assume the traffic is lower at that time). See the bot page.

Thanks

Hunter789 19:02, June 13, 2011 (UTC)


 * As a side note, I have not asked to flag the bot as a bot yet since it is still in development. Hunter789 19:05, June 13, 2011 (UTC)