Pywikipediabot/General basics/Installing pywikipediabot framework

Documentation on Pywikipediabot page is very good. Use it for initial instructions.

In short, make a subdirectory inside of your working directory and go there:

<source lang="bash"> $ mkdir mybot $ cd mybot </source>

Invoke Subversion checkout to download pywikipediabot:

<source lang="bash"> $ svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/ pywikipedia </source>

If you have a really slow connection, don't download spell-checking files:

<source lang="bash"> $ svn checkout --ignore-externals http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/ pywikipedia </source>

Pywikipediabot is a very active project. Because of that you should periodically (maybe daily, maybe weekly) update your copy:

<source lang="bash"> $ cd pywikipedia/ $ svn update </source>