Critical Role Miraheze scripts

These pywikibot scripts are for maintaining Encyclopedia Exandria at https://criticalrole.miraheze.org. For more information about how these scripts work and setting up Python and/or Pywikibot, including creating a bot password, please see Help:VOD script on the wiki.

Requirements

• Python 3.9 or newer
• Pywikibot
• Git (comes bundled automatically w/MacOS and Linux; download https://gitforwindows.org/ for Windows)

Installation

Cloning pywikibot and this repo

Decide what folder you'd like to place the pywikibot folder inside, somewhere easy to access on your computer. Open your command line tool and navigate to that folder. In that location run:

git clone -b stable https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/pywikibot/core.git pywikibot
git clone https://github.com/eseiver/cr_miraheze_scripts pywikibot/scripts/userscripts/cr_miraheze_scripts
pip install pywikibot youtube_transcript_api beautifulsoup4

Now whenever you want to get the latest pywikibot or cr_miraheze_scripts updates, you can go into the pywikibot folder and run git pull (first running git fetch and git status to compare the two states). (To update the miraheze scripts while in the top-level pywikibot folder, add the folder location after git, such as git -C scripts/userscripts/cr_miraheze_scripts pull.) This process will not overwrite any user files you create in the next step.

Create user files

Generate the wiki-specific files you need for logging into Miraheze by following the configuration guide for third-party wikis; miraheze_family.py does not exist by default and must be created. Your login credentials will be stored in user-config.py and user-password.py.

Update user-config file

Then update your user-config.py file in the top-level pywikibot folder to include the line:

user_script_paths = ['scripts.userscripts.cr_miraheze_scripts']

Usage

To run one of these scripts, navigate to the pywikibot folder on the command line and run: python pwb.py SCRIPTNAME where SCRIPTNAME is something like vod.

Modules

Name	Description
ep.py	Validates episode codes and infers information from them.
cr.py	Misc. helper functions & data for Critical Role Wiki.
transcript.py	For converting YouTube captions to transcripts.

Scripts

Name	Description
vod.py	Update relevant wiki pages when a new VOD is released on YouTube.
podcast.py	Update Module:Ep/PodcastSwitcher/URLs when a podcast is released.
dupes.py	Interactively remove transcript duplicate lines. Also in vod.py.