Forum:AWB problems

I edit with AWB some, and I generally run it in recent changes. Yesterday it worked for a while, then I had some stuff to do, so I closed AWB, came back and when I tried to run it in RC it said no pages found. I tried messing with the settings, closing/restarting it, logging out, resetting to default settings and manually setting them...just about everything I could think of. The only way I can get any pages to appear is through selecting the "new pages" option, which gives me the 100 most recently created pages. I've tried other wikis (other than my home wiki) to no avail.

Is anyone else having this problem, and (more importantly) does anyone know how to fix it. Thanks, 19:22, August 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I attempted to replicate the bug and used Recent Changes and had Zero results. I haven't noticed it till then. —Manyman (talk) 04:54, August 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Same problem with us at marvel.wikia.com. Another thread is going over here.
 * Artful Dodger 13:04, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * From what I know, this is a reported problem. However, it would be more beneficial for you to contact Wikia about this bug than create a forum here, so that they are aware of the problem (even though I'm pretty sure that they already are). 23:43, August 7, 2010 (UTC)

Its looking fine to me, http://runescape.wikia.com/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges --Uberfuzzy 01:48, August 8, 2010 (UTC)

If your still having trouble with this, use the debugger, and post here the URL(s) its fetching --Uberfuzzy 02:07, August 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * I've tried to enable the debugger, but it won't start for some reason or another. Do you know the best way to enable it?
 * The latest from the AWB developers says:

It's a MediaWiki regression for 1.15.5. Reported to Wikia — Ree dy  10:08, 10 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Any ideas about what this means, or when it'll be fixed? Thanks!
 * &mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 01:59, August 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * Someone in #wikia on IRC mentioned it might be rolled out in the code update this wedensday. Duskey ( talk ) 11:32, August 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Awesome Duskey! Thanks for the update! :)
 * &mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 17:14, August 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Fresh off the wiki
 * [21:16:28] i dont think i'll be able to get it in, intime for tomorrow's release, but if i get it done this week, it'll be next wednesday
 * Duskey ( talk ) 19:41, August 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks again Duskey, we'll all be waiting to hear more. :)
 * &mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 20:44, August 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Looks like it still didn't happen this week... still not getting any results in AWB. Sigh.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael  22:23, August 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * AWB works fine once you have the list, it's the generation that's a problem (I resorted to a localhost version using a database dump to generate the list, then switched wiki in the options). Hope this gets fixed, though -- Random Time  22:42, August 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * Tools -> database scan (if you have a current version, that is). Also, the html scraper with regex works somewhat, use  as regex and grab group 1. You can filter the list after the fact. -- ◄mendel► 23:34, August 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * Aren't database dumps and HTML scraping limited to only generate lists based on article names? How do I select eg. "what links here" pages or all pages in a category? Duskey ( talk ) 23:49, August 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * You can scrape any page. This includes WhatLinksHere pages or Category pages. -- ◄mendel► 00:00, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * Database dumps, simarly - can be scanned for content too, so you can scan for specific strings of text, etc (forget the specifics - but you can get a lot) -- Random Time  00:07, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * But this requires using regular expressions, right? I was afraid of that. Duskey ( talk ) 14:16, August 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * You can also copy/paste pages into a text file, and load the text file as a list. It's a bit of a chore, but it beats having no AWB at all...
 * &mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 06:17, August 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Tip: If all you need is a category list, go to Special:Export, type in the category, and it will fill the list box on that page with a list of pages. (You don't need to actually export anything.) You can copy and paste that list into a list file for AWB. :) -- ◄mendel► 07:44, August 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I never thought about that. It took 2 hours to copy from a category when I could of used Special:Export... —Manyman (talk) 11:13, August 28, 2010 (UTC)

Potential workaround - Using DynamicPageListing to make a list, then copying the list into AWB, works like a charm. DPL does categories, templates, and just about anything else that AWB uses to make lists. See this page for a quick tutorial on DPL. It's super easy, takes little time, and you can do more than just categories and things. Unfortunately it only does 500 pages at a time (but you can use the offset function to fix that) and it needs to be enabled by staff (which shouldn't be a big issue). Cook

It seems the problem is fixed now, at least I've been able to use most of the AWB list generators. Duskey ( talk ) 00:03, September 2, 2010 (UTC)